3x Blueberry Bushes £4.98, free P&P - glitch? ORDERS NOT BEING HONOURED

fiscalfreckles

This thread was moved to the Codes board, so some of you who ordered may not see the updates.

I received this email today:

Dear Van Meuwen customer,
Please note that due to a technical error, p&p was incorrectly omitted from a number of orders placed in conjunction with our "£5 off any order" newsletter offer on 15th, 16th, 17th or 18th July. Unfortunately, due to a number of people abusing this situation, we have reluctantly decided to cancel these orders. We apologise for any inconvenience, and invite you to place your order again, using code [edited out] to activate your £5 discount. Click here to go to the Van Meuwen website.
Once again, we apologise for this situation and thank you for ordering with Van Meuwen.
Best regards,
The Van Meuwen Web Team

And the 3 blueberry bushes have now gone up to £12.97.

Original thread HERE

loobylou232

Nooooooooo! I'm gutted! I was so hoping to get my own blueberries at last! Last one I bought died.

WarriorPrincess

Oh no - I was really looking forward to these.

squigs

I ordered a rose and also got the same e-mail!
Oh well, win some lose some.

73Jonathan123

"abusing this situation" is surely a bit strong.

Took advantage - yes, abused - no.

What a shame - was really pleased with that one!

hels123_2

Gutted!! I was excited about this one!

fiscalfreckles

I'm annoyed too; really was keen to have the blueberries, but not worth it now.

I agree that "abusing the situation" was a bit strong too - it was their mistake.

Also don't like the way they said here's a code for another £5 off so you can re-order if you just pay the p&p - but the 3 pack of blueberries has increased in price!

scrumpy78

Really annoyed, this was a present for my father in law. They messed up they should honour it

rabidbun

I was going to use it to see if the supplier was any good, annoyingly (having heard both good and bad things about them). Ah well.

The price increase on the blueberries is very sneaky of them though!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

rabidbun wrote: »

I was going to use it to see if the supplier was any good, annoyingly (having heard both good and bad things about them).

and so were the other 50,000 people.

However, if they honoured the deal no doubt there would be no company left for you to order off again at a later date because it would probably have gone bankrupt.

Lucky for you they cancelled. You still get the opportunity to try them out later.

SailorSam

I think you can get blueberry plants in the £shop,