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Buying used books through Amazon. Combined Shipping?

Zascar · 2016-11-02 14:43:21

On Amazon if you are looking at a book it will often say "27 used from £0.36" - which is great because even with €4 delivery to Ireland its still very cheap. However I want to buy a few books and hoping for combined delivery. Does anyone know if any of these stores do it at all?

02-11-2016 2:43pm

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Zascar

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On Amazon if you are looking at a book it will often say "27 used from £0.36" - which is great because even with €4 delivery to Ireland its still very cheap. However I want to buy a few books and hoping for combined delivery. Does anyone know if any of these stores do it at all?

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#2 02-11-2016 3:57pm

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Use bookfinder.com to search across all sites

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#3 02-11-2016 8:34pm

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I think the postage costs are a part of the profit for these sellers. So no you won't be able to combine them.

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#4 02-11-2016 9:54pm

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Some of these sellers have the books already packaged in single-unit shipping packs so combining isn't an option - and yes, the "postage and packing" contains their profit margin. It can be cheaper to find somewhere that's marginally dearer for the books, but allows combining. Takes a bit of digging, unfortunately.

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#5 03-11-2016 7:37pm

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Very small margins at those prices so very doubtful you will get combined shipping

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