Har har! What a delivery charge.

Har har har! What a delivery charge.
http://www.philipmorris.uk.com/prdf.php?pid=1069

The timer costs £10 and the total delivery charge (postage and
packaging) is £1 inclusive of VAT.

Now it's come to a pretty poor state of affairs to find that a
delivery charge of £1 for a web trader is so unusual that it makes me
smile.

If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to pay
£3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or Viking
Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that timer shown
on that Philip Morris's web page.

Well done Philip Morris! You join Consumable Cafe for fair trading.
In fact Consumable Cafe beat all comers by making P&P free.

I wonder if there is a correlation between awkward traders and high
P&P charges?

"David Peters" wrote in message
...
Har har har! What a delivery charge.
I wonder if there is a correlation between awkward traders and high
P&P charges?

Pointless post! Maybe you should ask companies direct about pricing and
courier costs.

"David Peters" wrote in message
...
Har har har! What a delivery charge.
http://www.philipmorris.uk.com/prdf.php?pid=1069

The timer costs £10 and the total delivery charge (postage and
packaging) is £1 inclusive of VAT.

Yeah, but have you ever seen such a cheap looking timer sell fro a tenner!
No wonder they can cut postage charges!

Glen

In article , David Peters
says...

If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to pay
£3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or Viking
Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that timer shown
on that Philip Morris's web page.

Because my retarded friend, they have staff to pay to process and pack
the stuff.


--
Conor,

Same ****, different day.

Conor wrote:
In article , David Peters
says...

If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to pay
£3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or Viking
Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that timer shown
on that Philip Morris's web page.

Because my retarded friend, they have staff to pay to process and pack
the stuff.

As opposed to Philip Morris, where the goods jump from the shelves into
Jiffy bags and walk to the postbox themselves?

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:46:54 UTC, Simon Dobson
wrote:

Conor wrote:
In article , David Peters
says...

If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to pay
£3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or Viking
Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that timer shown
on that Philip Morris's web page.

Because my retarded friend, they have staff to pay to process and pack
the stuff.

As opposed to Philip Morris, where the goods jump from the shelves into
Jiffy bags and walk to the postbox themselves?

No, as opposed to Philip Morris, where the goods are priced higher to
pay for teh staff (or the quality or customer service is lower).

Speculation, but a possible reason...
--
[Davism - a condition by which the sufferer experiences an inability
to give concise answers, express reasoned argument or opinion.
Usually accompanied by silly noises and gestures - incurable, early
euthanasia recommended.

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:36:34 GMT, David Peters
wrote:


If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to pay
£3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or Viking
Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that timer shown
on that Philip Morris's web page.

don't know about maplions but i use viking direct every 2m months for
a stationery order. they offer free delivery for order total above £30
and that is why i have gone to them. items have always turned up next
day apart from one ocassion. when it hadn;t the manager called me and
item was delivered following day.

i do sympathise with you on this matter. however, i find that it is
the ebay sellers who charge over the top than online vendors. ebuyer
is a luittle annoying for taking 10 working days to deliver the
weconolical option.
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In article , Simon Dobson says...
Conor wrote:
In article , David Peters
says...

If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to pay
£3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or Viking
Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that timer shown
on that Philip Morris's web page.

Because my retarded friend, they have staff to pay to process and pack
the stuff.

As opposed to Philip Morris, where the goods jump from the shelves into
Jiffy bags and walk to the postbox themselves?

Massive difference in profit margin.

--
Conor,

Same ****, different day.

On 20 Mar 2006, Glen wrote:

"David Peters" wrote in message
...
Har har har! What a delivery charge.
http://www.philipmorris.uk.com/prdf.php?pid=1069

The timer costs œ10 and the total delivery charge (postage and
packaging) is œ1 inclusive of VAT.

Yeah, but have you ever seen such a cheap looking timer sell fro
a tenner!
No wonder they can cut postage charges!

Glen


Actually that is a red hot timer. I got one from Waitrose not too
long ago and it is the best timer I have ever used: clear display,
loud beeps, easy buttons. Lovely.

On 20 Mar 2006, Conor wrote:

In article , David
Peters says...

If Philip Morris can do it for so little then why do we have to
pay œ3.50 plus VAT or whatever it is to traders like Maplins or
Viking Direct and so on to send us an item no bigger than that
timer shown on that Philip Morris's web page.

Because my retarded friend, they have staff to pay to process
and pack the stuff.


So the Philip Morris goods just magically don't need packing?