John Lewis charging £60 delivery to NI 6 September 2020 at 10:03AM in Praise, vent & warnings 10 replies 1.2K views

hightara

I always buy from John Lewis online for Tv's for their 5 year warranty.
However today, I selected a 43inch tv......went to basket to see a £60 delivery charge. I have never had to pay a delivery charge.
Click and collect was not available. 

bradders1983

Vote with your feet and buy it from elsewhere then.

hightara

I am Limited Bradders1983 here in Northern Ireland.   Never been charged before from JL or I would have done the obvious voting with my feet/wheelchair.

sheramber

Try  https://www.richersounds.ie/
They also give a guarantee  on TVs

hightara

Thank you Sheramber...... the IE site does not offer anything near the options as the uk site......I wish it did. I had already tried the uk site only to find out they do not deliver to NI.

shaun_from_Africa

Why not give Richer Sounds Belfast a call:
https://www.richersounds.com/stores/belfast
and see what they have in stock.
If they don't have what you want, they might be able to arrange for it to be ordered in.

hightara

thank you Shaun........ will do now

hightara

Just of the phone to Richer Sounds Belfast......... although my choice is not in stock.... they are ordering it for me, with no extra delivery charge.     Thank you so much Shaun, Sheramber and Bradders. 

Aaron  Richer sounds Belfast. !!!!

bradders1983

How much more or less was the product to buy?

hightara

Cheaper by twenty quid with a 6 year warranty 

Undervalued

hightara said:

Cheaper by twenty quid with a 6 year warranty 

I am glad that has worked out well for you.

N. Ireland is a beautiful place and in many cases property etc can be far cheaper than somewhere equally attractive in England. The trade off is that some commercial companies, JL in this case, do charge significantly more to deliver larger items in NI as it presumably costs them more. The same applies to many Scottish islands and the more remote parts of the Highlands.

Apart from the Royal Mail, who are legally obliged to charge a flat rate across the whole of the UK, any other delivery service can use whatever pricing structure they like.