Postage Costs

[millerkev]

i had the same issues with the cost of one teeny weeny little hot spring ..rip off britain

[djs]

My favourite Vendor (excluding Vape Escape...) charges too much for P&P. I could understand it if the packages were bigger than the 25mm slot at the Post Office, but the last one was no thicker than a pack of rolling tobacco.
I'm sad to say.....

[djs]

Feb 5, 2013 21:10:25 GMT pedaldog said:

Feb 5, 2013 21:01:04 GMT ChillerVapes said:

Is it not breaking the law by overcharging for postage?

As long as you have the option to cancel before you pay for the stuff I think they can charge what they want.

yes, and if it's taking the mick, then I cancel my order....simples....

[yorkcitytom]

Feb 5, 2013 20:31:32 GMT Toondog said:

Alba! Their minimum postage is nearly £4.00! I don't get it, I posted elsewhere on here about it. Are they actually trying to stop people ordering? Have they had stuff go missing? They do a massive role of kanthal for £8.00 and loads of other stuff I want but there is no way on earth I'm paying £4.00 minimum postage!
Chris.

It's annoying, especially as as I'm particularly partial to their fruity flavours and was trying a different one every month. I'm not doing it any more though-almost as annoying as the high cost is the 2 mile drive to pick the stuff up.

[daveyboy37]

Feb 5, 2013 20:31:32 GMT Toondog said:

Alba! Their minimum postage is nearly £4.00! I don't get it, I posted elsewhere on here about it. Are they actually trying to stop people ordering? Have they had stuff go missing? They do a massive role of kanthal for £8.00 and loads of other stuff I want but there is no way on earth I'm paying £4.00 minimum postage!
Chris.

Yeah I just found this out too about Alba. They do a root beer eliquid that gets great reviews. 10ML for £4.50..
But as Toondog says...£3.90 for SECOND class delivery... this is after having the gall to tell me the weight of the package 0.02 kg
£5.70 for first class
It also says even second class is tracked signed for(didn't know there was such a thing) so probably a trip down to the sorting office to collect
Then the final straw about Alba is I got all the way through to the Paypal page. At no point did it give an option to use discount code.
Its taking the p***
I know this is partly down to Royal Mail, but to put things into perspective I just ordered a Vamo, a charger and a ton of batteries from China... so not a small package, but still £1 less postage than what alba want me to pay to have delivered a 10ml bottle of liquid.

As said .. best to vote with your feet.
I am gutted about the root beer tho.

[Ewol]

I just sent about 40ml of liquid in post and it cost 90p. I have no idea where they get the ridiculous postage prices.

Alba-Vapours does it too. A couple of 10ml bottles and postage is £6 odd. I used to like their liquid, not at that bloody price I dont.

[Perpetua]

It's a shame isn't it, though I appreciate the thinking behind the postage costs, but they must be losing business with that level of postal charges.  :-[

[daveyboy37]

Feb 8, 2013 10:40:06 GMT Ewol said:

I just sent about 40ml of liquid in post and it cost 90p. I have no idea where they get the ridiculous postage prices.

Alba-Vapours does it too. A couple of 10ml bottles and postage is £6 odd. I used to like their liquid, not at that bloody price I dont.

Yeah It was Alba that I ranted about... not good

[daveyboy37]

Feb 8, 2013 10:41:42 GMT Perpetua said:

It's a shame isn't it, though I appreciate the thinking behind the postage costs, but they must be losing business with that level of postal charges.  :-[

They have certainly lost mine. I wouldn't mind another vendor on here charged my something like £2.50 p+p for a larger package. A day later I got a £1.40 refund on paypal. I emailed them and queried it.
The reply came was that they use a flat rate for postage but my package wasn't gonna cost anything like £2.50 to deliver, so the Paypal refund was a part refund of postage.
Anyways im off on a search for some Root Beer juice from elsewhere.

[Ewol]

Yeah, sorry, I forgot to read page 2.

It's a shame I can't just get everything I like at vapeescape because if I could I wouldn't use anybody else.

[daveyboy37]

Feb 8, 2013 10:52:53 GMT Ewol said:

Yeah, sorry, I forgot to read page 2.

It's a shame I can't just get everything I like at vapeescape because if I could I wouldn't use anybody else.

Hell yeah. I wish I still lived in Rochdale. Would be in the shop at VE spending all my pennies!

[robby]

It`s a con, they pretend to have reasonable prices but have already factored in a profit by way of their minimum postage charge. It is a common ploy on Ebay to make their prices seem competitive with other sellers. At least you can tell on Ebay and not have to go through the process of going right through the order process. Probably a lot of people think "Oh sod it, I have come this far, I may as well order it"

[daveyboy37]

Yeah to be fair, had I been ordering £20 or £30 of juice I wouldn't have given it a 2nd thought. But im not paying £4 p+p for a £4.50 product.

[brysoni23]

FIRST CLASS MAIL
Weight up to Price
Letter - Max 240mm (L)x 165mm (W)x 5mm (D)
100g £0.60

Large Letter - Max 353mm (L)x 250mm (W) x 25mm (D)
100g £0.90
250g £1.20
500g £1.60
750g £2.30

Packet - Over 353mm (L) x 250mm (W) x 25mm (D)
Up to 750g £2.70
751-1000g £4.30
1001-1250g £5.60
1251-1500g £6.50
1501-1750g £7.40
1751-2000g £8.30
2001-4000g £10.30
Each additional 2kg or part thereof £3.50

[brysoni23]

SECOND CLASS MAIL
Weight up to Price
Letter - Max 240mm (L)x 165mm (W)x 5mm (D)
100g £0.50

Large Letter - Max 353mm (L)x 250mm (W) x 25mm (D)
100g £0.69
250g £1.10
500g £1.40
750g £1.90

Packet - Over 353mm (L) x 250mm (W) x 25mm (D)
Up to 750g £2.20
751 -1000g £3.50

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ITEMS HEAVIER THAN 1KG CANNOT BE SENT SECOND CLASS