Amazon postage

Archergirl

I bought a mascara from Amazon for £6.50 with free postage, when it arrives it was in a small padded envelope with two £4.20p stamps on, so how does that work?

TadleyBaggie

Seems the seller lost £1.90+ on the deal. Free postage just means the price of postage is factored into the item price.

Archergirl

TadleyBaggie said:

Seems the seller lost £1.90+ on the deal. Free postage just means the price of postage is factored into the item price.

Yes I know that, it's crazy, I think it would be a large letter size which UK signed for is £3.05 2nd class a small parcel is only £4.69 (I don't have the new book but it can't have gone up that much) No way would the postage be £8.40

TadleyBaggie

So if the postage was actually £4.69, if all they had were £4.20 stamps, one stamp wouldn't be enough, so they used 2. Bizarre but possible.

elsien

Or they could be like me and doing Royal mail surveys which pay in stamps so even if you put stamps on that are overpriced it is still not costing you anything because they were free in the first place. 

Archergirl

elsien said:

Or they could be like me and doing Royal mail surveys which pay in stamps so even if you put stamps on that are overpriced it is still not costing you anything because they were free in the first place. 

When I did the surveys all I ever got were first class stamps................

elsien

Yes,  but you can still use them to send second class parcels as long as the amount is right -  I write second class on next to the stamps just to cover it. 

jon81uk

elsien said:

Yes,  but you can still use them to send second class parcels as long as the amount is right -  I write second class on next to the stamps just to cover it. 

But the OP stated it was £4.20 value stamps.

elsien

I was replying to Archergirl. 

Archergirl

elsien said:

I was replying to Archergirl. 

But the postage they paid was £8.40, far in excess of what was necessary and more then the item cost.