Do they think I'm stupid
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1 Bag of 100x 100mm 20mm Cabie Ties 0.23p GBP - Postage £3.95 GPB (UK Mainland) :omg: :wtf: Why do (Compnaies) sellers insist in charging unreasonable and extortionate postal changes. I can buy the sames good on flea bay (albeit the cost is marginally higher) but the postage is free.
Two heads are better than one.
I think most companies find it easier and more profitable to know they will make money on shipping, than to risk finding they are losing money on it. I know my attempts to be fair with postage on ebay have resulted in me selling at a loss at times.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I think most companies find it easier and more profitable to know they will make money on shipping, than to risk finding they are losing money on it. I know my attempts to be fair with postage on ebay have resulted in me selling at a loss at times.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I'd rather pay the true value of the goods and not be stitched up on postage. Outside of EBay more companies insist on shafting the buyer with silly postal changes. Just recently I bought 2x O Ring clips (15mm in Diameter and weighing 0.5 grams) the postage was £3.95 and this was first class postage not special delivery. :wtf:
Two heads are better than one.
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I'd rather pay the true value of the goods and not be stitched up on postage. Outside of EBay more companies insist on shafting the buyer with silly postal changes. Just recently I bought 2x O Ring clips (15mm in Diameter and weighing 0.5 grams) the postage was £3.95 and this was first class postage not special delivery. :wtf:
Two heads are better than one.
I recently bought a set of DVD's on Amazon. They cost £6 (normally reatails for £30 so a bargain) and only got charged £1.24 postage, which was more than reasonable.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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I recently bought a set of DVD's on Amazon. They cost £6 (normally reatails for £30 so a bargain) and only got charged £1.24 postage, which was more than reasonable.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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The postage amount is always displayed on Ebay. How about you read it next time!
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The postage amount is always displayed on Ebay. How about you read it next time!
He's not knocking ebay, he's saying it would be cheaper on ebay b/c ebay sellers have more reasonable rates.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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The postage amount is always displayed on Ebay. How about you read it next time!
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1 Bag of 100x 100mm 20mm Cabie Ties 0.23p GBP - Postage £3.95 GPB (UK Mainland) :omg: :wtf: Why do (Compnaies) sellers insist in charging unreasonable and extortionate postal changes. I can buy the sames good on flea bay (albeit the cost is marginally higher) but the postage is free.
Two heads are better than one.
The thing is, the "postage" cost is more than just the face value of the stamps. It also has to cover the cost of the packaging, and time for someone to put your order in the box, go and find the things in the warehouse, etc etc. If this is someone like Screwfix, they are geared up for volume supply. So if someone was buying 500 bags of cable ties, the postage costs would not be 500 times as great. Also, your fuel + parking charges + time to go to the local B&Q and buy them directly would probably be a lot more than £3.95, so you are, on the whole, saving money.
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1 Bag of 100x 100mm 20mm Cabie Ties 0.23p GBP - Postage £3.95 GPB (UK Mainland) :omg: :wtf: Why do (Compnaies) sellers insist in charging unreasonable and extortionate postal changes. I can buy the sames good on flea bay (albeit the cost is marginally higher) but the postage is free.
Two heads are better than one.
Where do you live that you can't just pick them up at a supermarket or hardware store?
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1 Bag of 100x 100mm 20mm Cabie Ties 0.23p GBP - Postage £3.95 GPB (UK Mainland) :omg: :wtf: Why do (Compnaies) sellers insist in charging unreasonable and extortionate postal changes. I can buy the sames good on flea bay (albeit the cost is marginally higher) but the postage is free.
Two heads are better than one.
You got to look closely at flea bay too - I was going to bid on a air staple gun, no bids, 2 hours, 0.99p. Until I saw the postage - £39.99 No f'king way!
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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Where do you live that you can't just pick them up at a supermarket or hardware store?
xacc.ide
IronScheme - 1.0 RC 1 - out now!
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The thing is, the "postage" cost is more than just the face value of the stamps. It also has to cover the cost of the packaging, and time for someone to put your order in the box, go and find the things in the warehouse, etc etc. If this is someone like Screwfix, they are geared up for volume supply. So if someone was buying 500 bags of cable ties, the postage costs would not be 500 times as great. Also, your fuel + parking charges + time to go to the local B&Q and buy them directly would probably be a lot more than £3.95, so you are, on the whole, saving money.
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But if it's an item which you get postage charges for is £3.95 and then they post it first class - that in my eyes is a rip off.
Two heads are better than one.
But it isn't postage you are paying for. It's the time and materials to package it. The cost of the 1st class stamp is just one part of that.
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You got to look closely at flea bay too - I was going to bid on a air staple gun, no bids, 2 hours, 0.99p. Until I saw the postage - £39.99 No f'king way!
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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That's having you pants pulled down and your arse spanked good and proper (at least in the days when you could do that).
Two heads are better than one.
Norm .net wrote:
having you pants pulled down and your arse spanked good and proper
I understand that such services are still available, from specialist suppliers.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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Norm .net wrote:
having you pants pulled down and your arse spanked good and proper
I understand that such services are still available, from specialist suppliers.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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Is this from personal experience? On second thoughts - I don't want to know. What you do in the privacy, etc. etc. :laugh:
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
