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Pay as you go bin collection service?

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  • 09-10-2019 9:39pm
    #1
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭


    My refuse & recycling bin contract is nearly up. It's currently with Country Clean and it's €314 per annum. The thing is though that I only end up putting each bin out once every 6 weeks.

    Is there a bin service that charges you based on the number of bins that you put out rather than a flat annual fee?


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    #2
    Mardyke
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Mardyke


    Kollect.ie


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    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,038 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Mardyke wrote: »
    Kollect.ie

    Does anyone have experience with this crowd?
    I often see Kollect bin around the place uncollected.


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    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Does anyone have experience with this crowd?
    I often see Kollect bin around the place uncollected.

    I requested a call-back on their website last night (as it was after-hours) and they never rang me today which isn't a great sign from a business perspective. Usually companies bend over backwards for new customers.


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    Mardyke
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Mardyke


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Does anyone have experience with this crowd?
    I often see Kollect bin around the place uncollected.

    Yep, signed up before the summer. All going fine so far. It seems to be a Country Clean truck collects the bins!

    Very easy to top up your account and book collections online.

    I think it'd suit a house that doesn't necessarily need a collection every week.


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    #6
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    Unfortunately, Kollect are not currently accepting any new business in Cork City


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    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Brussels Sprout wrote: »
    Unfortunately, Kollect are not currently accepting any new business in Cork City

    Yes I’ve been told the same recently.


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    whatever76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭whatever76


    Got a text yesterday and Kollect.ie have moved all cork accounts over to Country Clean now so they no longer in cork - such a pity as it was a v good service. Must follow up now and see what this means not that they moved me to COuntry clean ... grrrr


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    aujopimur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Does anyone have experience with this crowd?
    I often see Kollect bin around the place uncollected.

    It think it's run by 5 year olds, luckily it seems to have be taken over by Country Clean.


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    aujopimur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    whatever76 wrote: »
    Got a text yesterday and Kollect.ie have moved all cork accounts over to Country Clean now so they no longer in cork - such a pity as it was a v good service. Must follow up now and see what this means not that they moved me to COuntry clean ... grrrr

    The've said to me that they will continue the existing pay as you go service.


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    TheEyeonyrBack
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭TheEyeonyrBack


    I requested a callback and since then I just get spam texts every now and then. I understand that they don't operate anymore, but if I'm wrong I'd say you get what you pay. I was a greenstar customer, just for the record...


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    Mardyke
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Mardyke


    Apparently Country Clean have been collecting for Konnect for the last six months. This was never declared to customers.

    What would customers rights be now to have the contract cancelled and annual fee refunded?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Wiser do pay as you go if the collect in your area.


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    FastFullBack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭FastFullBack


    Mardyke wrote: »
    Apparently Country Clean have been collecting for Konnect for the last six months. This was never declared to customers.

    What would customers rights be now to have the contract cancelled and annual fee refunded?

    Isn’t Konnect pay as you go, so no annual fee


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    Mardyke
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Mardyke


    FastFullBack wrote: »
    Isn’t Konnect pay as you go, so no annual fee

    Theyre done in Cork anyway but it was €45 retainer.

    Country Clean seem like complete idiots


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    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Does anyone have experience with this crowd?
    I often see Kollect bin around the place uncollected.

    We were with them. They gove refuse collection over to country clean.


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    #17
    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Seems country clean are trying to take over the Cork market, about 5/6 years ago they bought out the troubled Healy Blue Bin company on Skehard Road, now Kollect. There was O’Donoghue’s waste but I haven’t seen them in a long time. Greenstar, owned my Panda are there alright, as are Wiser who tip all their collections in Greenstar’s Glanmire depot. So in time I suspect Greenstar or Country Clean to make a move for Wiser


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    #18
    quietsailor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    The council recycling centres take waste bags for €6 each. There is one on the link road and one out in raffeen by monkstown


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    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,691 ✭✭✭corks finest


    quietsailor wrote:
    The council recycling centres take waste bags for €6 each. There is one on the link road and one out in raffeen by monkstown


    Rafeen is v good ,40 kg bag of ashes a few times a year ( full to the neck + another bag 7/9 AFAIK ( remember) well worth the visit ,5/ 10 minutes from Carrigaline


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