Thats a bit OTT init

Plus £1.50 packing which gives £4.58

That's what me Mrs said ... so I had to Thumper.

The clue is in the excessive URL block ! Oh, and don't foget to add 70p for recorded because of the theiving scum that deny receiving their delivery and call a chargeback from their CC company just because they feel the postage should have been free !

Exactly.

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You can easily pay that for a large Jiffy bag or shipping carton but I would expect someone doing regular mail order to buy in bulk at a much lower cost.

MBQ

There's a reason for that.

Ebay don't charge commission on P&P charges so even "Buy it now" items are offered at a low price with inflated P&P charges.

Derek

To you, maybe. To me, it would be £1.90 First Class, including VAT, although I would pay the same for 50g package. I have a flat rate agreement with Royal Mail that is based on the average weight of the pieces of mail I send out.

Colin Bignell

Oh, right, so they buy in bulk to perhaps increase their profit margins by a few percent and then pass those savings on to the customer. I'm sure OP shopped around to find the absolutely cheapest price he could, hence the company that has already significantly reduced their profit margins.

In todays economic climate the competition is extremely fierce but guess who'll be the ones whinging like a baby when the companies that keep the market competitive go out of business and the big boys step back in with their monopolies and high prices.

I'm sure on a measly £10 order any small profit would have been lost in overheads rather than funding the Christmas pissup !

Pete

My pet hate with internet shopping are those sites which hide the P&P fee until you've selected your purchases and gone through the whole checkout procedure (sometimes even having to enter your payment details) before they present you with the total bill for your approval.

David

They would have to be the only place before I went to that much trouble before being told how much.

Not me then :-)

Mary

Umm, yes but also remember that if you are buying by post, the postal charges aren't that much different on Ebay; OK there are some scammers and these have to be watched for, but P&P charges apply to all delivered items. Rob

Thank-you Mary.

:¬)

Hear, hear. They drive me bloody mad too.

I prefer upfront honesty any day.

Behave yourself,her and david would have have to go out everynight for a fortnight poaching

Youdon't need a duvet if you have that number of skins :-)

Mary

You pay VAT on postage ?

So presumably you stamp them and put them in a postbox on the way home

:-0

Derek

Bad eggs-ample

Derek

That is the overall cost, not just the postage, and some of the elements are subject to VAT. Some, like the freepost address service for returns, are not even direct costs of posting, but need to be accounted for in the postage cost calculation.

I doubt a flat rate agreement could work that way, as Royal Mail needs to check our declared weights and number of packages from time to time. One of the elements of my postage cost is for the van that comes around and collects the bags of mail every day.

Colin Bignell