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  • 04-08-2010 12:47pm
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    Ms Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 727 ✭✭✭


    I was a huge fan of these until today........

    Thought I'd treat myself and Mr Happy to some apple drops, €2.00 per quarter at bit pricey but still I continued to checkout where I discovered the postage was €6.00!!

    If I had bought it would have cost me €14.00 for 1lb of apple drops :eek:

    As far as I can remember last year the sweets were €1.50 per 1/4 lb with free postage. Thats some feckin jump in price! I won't buy a thing from them again.

    *rant over*


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    91011
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    I can't see how anyone couild sell a 1/4 of sweets AND give free postage. Postage for over 100g at small packet rate is €2.20 and cheapest courier rate if sending large quantities is about €5.

    Basically, delivery charges are paid somehow - either they are priced in or are priced seperately.

    Ideally a free delivery incentive should be offered to get order value above a certain amount.


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    the groutch
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    when they were offering free delivery last year it was an issue because the postage for them was as much as the ocst of the sweets for small orders.
    they've obviously done a deal with a courier because it's now a fixed €6 delivery charge, so you really need to make a decent sized order for it to be worthwhile


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    Ms Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Ms Happy


    91011 wrote: »
    I can't see how anyone couild sell a 1/4 of sweets AND give free postage. Postage for over 100g at small packet rate is €2.20 and cheapest courier rate if sending large quantities is about €5.

    Basically, delivery charges are paid somehow - either they are priced in or are priced seperately.

    Ideally a free delivery incentive should be offered to get order value above a certain amount.
    the groutch wrote: »
    when they were offering free delivery last year it was an issue because the postage for them was as much as the ocst of the sweets for small orders.
    they've obviously done a deal with a courier because it's now a fixed €6 delivery charge, so you really need to make a decent sized order for it to be worthwhile

    Both completely valid points but my moan/rant was that 1lb would have cost €14.00 Is that not just a tad expensive?????

    Also, I ordered a number of times when the delivery was free as did my colleagues, one order was over €20 when the parcel arrived the postage was around €3


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