Buying in Bulk, Does It Beat BAL Value?

I met a tiler today. He loves to use BAL but is convinced it's too expensive.
What this tiler does, is what many do. He buys direct at a pallet at a time.
He buys 56 bags, and pays £742 plus a £40 delivery charge, so £782.
That adhesive will fix up to 252m². Thats info taken from their own website.

I started to talk to the fixer about how BAL could be a more cost effective alternative.
How?
Well, with our high yield Supercover adhesives, and the price adjustment, BAL could be closer than you think.

Back to the chat with the tiler. I asked if he had to assign a day to wait for his delivery of adhesive. He said he did. How much would he earn in that day? about £170. So when you add that too you have a price of about £950.
To cover 252m² you would only need 39 bags of Supercover Rapidflex. Now with BAL's price changes he could pick this up for around £975. I'm sure if he was to buy 50 bags at a time, he'd get an even better price.

So what does he get for his extra £25?

BAL's 25 year guarantee.

Latest innovations in products, like Single Part Fast Flex, Ultrabase, Variset XP.
Also an unrivalled Technical Support. With TAS taking over 50,000 calls a year, and 5 Product Support Technicians covering the whole country.
Then there's Tilerworld.com, providing another potential source of work for the tiler, also 6 training centres countrywide to receive new one day masterclass training.
On top of that you have the Tilerworld Forum, where you can get Technical advice 94 hours a week.

Also the fixer has 56 bags of one pallet. If he needs a leveling compound, or an adhesive for a specialist application. He will need to go to a distributor and probably not get the best trader rates. Then there's the hassle of storing your 56 bags, what if they get wet and damaged?

When we finished our chat, the tiler was certainly rethinking his idea that buying in bulk is cost effective.