royal mail price increases - plan of action?

cafenervosa_2

PASCALI wrote:

Viking Direct have a buy 2 get 1 free, BUT you can select any size as your free box, I bought 6 boxes of C0 for £57 delivered, got 3 free boxes of E1, I will sell the E1 on Ebay at a £1 or so less than anyone else, hence the 600 will have cost £15, I could have got 900 C0 for £57, but it made more sense to get the more expensive ones free, I guess if I had the time I could work it so the cost to me is £Nil
http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/catalog/vkgCatalog.do;jsessionid=0000uT7e4s4cm7FuNjG-P3SkH74:11g06dj48?N=2+548&pr=*

Thanks for that. I have heard of them before I really have a good look at there site. did you buy your stuff from the business section or personal?

PASCALI

business, but i just use my own name as the busines name, you have to order over £30 ? to get free delivery, they seem to run this offer every two or three months

cafenervosa_2

PASCALI wrote:

business, but i just use my own name as the busines name, you have to order over £30 ? to get free delivery, they seem to run this offer every two or three months

Yea its a great offer I would buy some now if I needed them. I just bought 800 a few weeks back so have plently to last for the time being

I will check out Viking when I run out though! :money:

highguyuk

Posted one of my best sellers at the moment yesterday. £1.90. I asked what the charges would be for the new price structure.

90p.

C'mon new postal prices! Woo!

cafenervosa_2

highguyuk wrote:

Posted one of my best sellers at the moment yesterday. £1.90. I asked what the charges would be for the new price structure.

90p.

C'mon new postal prices! Woo!

Wow thats so cool for you!!! :beer:

I worked out some of my best sellers cost me £1.29 to post now but that will go up to £1.70! :rolleyes:

highguyuk

tbh, I can't believe. When I happens, I'll believe it. She told me that alot of prices are actually coming down ...

We shall see ...

user051105

I work for the Royal Mail, basically its going to make them more money alledgely they loose money handling larger items and want to make pricing fairer.

But as my last two years of share in success show they don't really cost more to handle, if they did they wouldn't make £400million a year profits.

Personally, I think in a way its good for them to make more money (in the end the employees get some back :cool:) ) I don't quite see how it is fairer pricing but it is going to alienate a lot of small time customers (ebayers) or is aimed at the eBay parcel market, hook onto a good thing.

Then if you don't like the situation try one the Royal Mails competitors, but how many of them will want to deliver the odd DVD for £1 for you, if you find one let me know.

BexTech

I'm not happy, for me it's going to cost more to send items.

tomstickland

If they wanted to make it "fairer" then some things would cost more to post and others would be less. They obviouslly want to make it "fairer" and, on average, increase charges at the same time.

I don't think it will make much difference to my Ebay process apart from some extra divving around at the post office.

tummteetum

PASCALI wrote:

Viking Direct have a buy 2 get 1 free, BUT you can select any size as your free box, I bought 6 boxes of C0 for £57 delivered, got 3 free boxes of E1, I will sell the E1 on Ebay at a £1 or so less than anyone else, hence the 600 will have cost £15, I could have got 900 C0 for £57, but it made more sense to get the more expensive ones free, I guess if I had the time I could work it so the cost to me is £Nil
http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/catalog/vkgCatalog.do;jsessionid=0000uT7e4s4cm7FuNjG-P3SkH74:11g06dj48?N=2+548&pr=*

and viking direct are one of the companies you can get 'cash-back' with on quidco too (i can't remember what %age though) so scrape a few more pennies back that way