EXPIRED Stock up on stamps before 30th April

Loz

Ordered some online - 2 out of 3 orders arrived but just popped into local P.O. and bought 12 books of 2nd class no problem.

Picasso7

Anon wrote: »

It seemed to disappear last week (as I had it open to follow the thread, refreshed and it said page not found). This sometimes happens when a topic has been pushed too far (aka abuse of offer) or possibly MSE has been contacted by disgruntled Ocado execs ...

I see that the limit on Ocado is 6 books in total now ....

Anon

I've had fun with my Ocado shop. First I just ordered loads of stamps, via Quidco, checked out using the discount code, went through the Mastercard verification process and all seemed well. Then I got a message to say that my card wasn't valid and they cancelled the order. I e-mailed customer services and explained the situation and he said he'd re-set the account so I could use the voucher. So tried again this evening and it said it wasn't my first order. Grrr. Rang customer services who were brilliant and generated a special code which gave me £15 off my order. I'd tried to order 6 books (this time they wouldn't let me add more to the basket) of 2nd class stamps but they were all oos and the website offered me 2nd class large letter ones instead. So I went for it and, oddly, it allowed me 14 books of them. Most weird, though I am not complaining.

So now I have my £15 off my first order of £75 or less, I am waiting to see how it will track in Quidco. Can anyone tell me how long it takes to track? I don't want to delay submitting a query if that is what I have to do.

P2TKL

Picasso7 wrote: »

I've had fun with my Ocado shop. First I just ordered loads of stamps, via Quidco, checked out using the discount code, went through the Mastercard verification process and all seemed well. Then I got a message to say that my card wasn't valid and they cancelled the order. I e-mailed customer services and explained the situation and he said he'd re-set the account so I could use the voucher. So tried again this evening and it said it wasn't my first order. Grrr. Rang customer services who were brilliant and generated a special code which gave me £15 off my order. I'd tried to order 6 books (this time they wouldn't let me add more to the basket) of 2nd class stamps but they were all oos and the website offered me 2nd class large letter ones instead. So I went for it and, oddly, it allowed me 14 books of them. Most weird, though I am not complaining.

So now I have my £15 off my first order of £75 or less, I am waiting to see how it will track in Quidco. Can anyone tell me how long it takes to track? I don't want to delay submitting a query if that is what I have to do.

Same happened to me...was told my card wasnt valid and order was cancelled ...grrr. Have given up now...account is locked !

Picasso7

P2TKL wrote: »

Same happened to me...was told my card wasnt valid and order was cancelled ...grrr. Have given up now...account is locked !

Don't give up! CS was really, really helpful when I phoned. The waste of time was the e-mailing bit.

donnydiva

just a quick question - the books of stamps, do they only come in books of 12? (hope I dont sound bit thick asking, but dont usually get them, and only thinking of it due to price increase on 30th!)

thanks

Speculator

Picasso7 wrote: »

I'd tried to order 6 books (this time they wouldn't let me add more to the basket) of 2nd class stamps but they were all oos and the website offered me 2nd class large letter ones instead. So I went for it and, oddly, it allowed me 14 books of them. Most weird, though I am not complaining

.

2nd class large letter are only increasing by 19%.

The normal 2nd class stamps are much better value because they are increasing by a massive 39% double that of 2nd class large letter.

My main PO are almost OOS of 2nd class so I went to the sub PO and bought 1000 2nd class.

£360 worth of 2nd class will be worth £500 on the 30th of April and if I invested £360 in a savings a/c paying 5%, it will take 9 years of cumulative interest to take me over the £500 mark.

wanchai_2

I've bought about £400-worth of stamps, should do me a while

winteremma

donnydiva wrote: »

just a quick question - the books of stamps, do they only come in books of 12? (hope I dont sound bit thick asking, but dont usually get them, and only thinking of it due to price increase on 30th!)

thanks

Books of 6, 12 or sheets of 100

pacmed

Just to confirm...

What is to stop me emptying my bank account into second class stamps, waiting a week, redeeming the at the PO at 40% profit?

custardy

pacmed wrote: »

Just to confirm...

What is to stop me emptying my bank account into second class stamps, waiting a week, redeeming the at the PO at 40% profit?

The PO not taking them