Jean Patrique and the dodgy pepper mills.

digitaltoast

Macuser magazine have be flogging my email address to more dodgy companies.
Today I got the offer of buying a salt and pepper mill set for just £1.99 - according to the email, originally £19.99

Intrigued, I click through. It was indeed £1.99 - for one.
But on this page they had suddenly become £49.99 *EACH* originally!

But lucky me!
"At the next stage, you will be offered the chance to purchase the matching mill for just £4.99!".

Wow - £1.99 for 1 or £6.98 for 2. Bargain, eh?!
Eagerly, I clicked through - a note at the footer said there were "reasonable P&P charges".
Which is £9.99 P&P.

So my £1.99 mill set was now up to £19.97.
And amazingly, they're only 15% VAT - add one to the basket, you'll see that the VAT on £1.99 is 30p. Can they do that?

I went to close the page - a popup told me "don't go! 33% off postage!".
Although the postage amount didn't change when I clicked "stay".

Here's what you get when you google them:

[img]http://www.digitaltoast.co.uk/files/patrique/patrique google result.png[/img]

So I went (as I was going to, anyway), when I was taken to a knife offer page.
With a near-identical copy of the "Groupon" deal thing!

Azari

Those electric mills are rubbish, anyway.

"And amazingly, they're only 15% VAT - add one to the basket, you'll see that the VAT on £1.99 is 30p. Can they do that?"

Yes, provided they actually hand the correct amount of VAT over.

It's effectively hiding a part of the VAT within the supposedly pre-VAT price.