Free shipping from Amazon on orders from £25

NoelDoran wrote: »

What going on with amazon, i know there offering free shipping on goods over 25 pounds (which is great) but if you buy something under 25 pounds they charge 6.05 pounds for shipping and it used to be 1.79 pounds....Anyone any idea whats going on???

You would never have got anything delivered here for £1.79 - The lowest charge for the last 2 years or so has been for just 1 cd or dvd - £1.88.
What is it you are ordering?
Full List of Delivery charges here.

Ogham wrote: »

You would never have got anything delivered here for £1.79 - The lowest charge for the last 2 years or so has been for just 1 cd or dvd - £1.88.
What is it you are ordering?
Full List of Delivery charges here.

Sorry bout that meant to type £1.88.......just tried there now to preorder the dvd 12 rounds, its £9.99, when i got to my summery page i was being charged £16.59 inc vat (dvd £10.54 and postage £6.05)..........

When i clicked on see details of vat, it states the dvd is £8.68 (this is ok) and postage is £4.98 (but i tought it was £1.88 + VAT???) So what is going on, have amazon upped their price on postage, cant find anything on the website to say this????

Ogham wrote: »

I tried a few single DVd orders - and all came up as 4.98 + VAt = 6.05 delivery !!
It should be 1.88 plus vat = 2.28. They seem to be charging as if it is a video game or a book.
I have emailed Amazon about it - I'll post the reply here.

Good i have emailed them too, will be interesting to see what they say. Below is a copy of the email i sent to them......


Hello, i tried ordering a dvd from you site this morning but when it came to the summary page i am being charged £6.05 (£4.98 + vat) postage to Ireland. Now i can only assume that this is an error in your system as it used to be £1.88 + vat to Ireland. I have tried several different dvds and they all are being charged at £6.05...Can you please help me???

still not changed, has anyone got caught out on this, will they refund people???

Thank you Amazon, Free delivery is brilliant.

The £25 limit is obviously to encourage bulk ordering to make economies in the brilliant delivery system they operate. Hopefully they will keep the sterling price as then you pay the exchange rate on the day from the bank and not the exchange rate set a few months ago by the company.

The VAT is paid to Ireland so at least something goes back into the revenue coffers to pay for all the ministers expenses and hopefully they leave something to help defray the costs of running our wonderful country.

Why would you want to use your Laser card instead of a credit card, your purchases are not protected like a credit card purchase and you are giving access to your bank account, not a credit limited credit card. If a supplier went bust you get your money back from the credit card company, you don't have this right if its Laser. (As far as i know). (Amazon are not likely to go bust but in general its better to be safe than sorry)

I always thought that as a rule you should always use a credit card for all online purchases books,dvds,flights etc no matter who you are purchasing them from as you have some comeback in the event of a problem. The rights for Laser/Debit cards are never the same.

Ogham wrote: »

mazon They actually said in my reply

"If, after 24 hours there is no change, we please request you to place the order and write back to us so that we will refund the additional delivery charge."

Anyway - I doubt if I'll ever be ordering less than £25 quids worth at a time on Amazon - even when this is fixed.

Yea this is what amazon said back to me aswell...........

Dear Customer

Thank you for writing to Amazon.co.uk.

I am sorry that you are being charged incorrectly for the postage at the time of placing the order.

Generally, we charge a fixed rate for each delivery, with an additional smaller charge for each item in that delivery. Here's the equation we use to calculate the total delivery cost:

(Highest applicable per delivery rate)
+
(Number of items x per item rate) = Total delivery cost

For example, if you have three items in your order, you’ll be charged one delivery fee plus three item charges.

1.49 GBP (per delivery rate)
+
1 x 0.39 GBP (per item rate) = 1.88 GBP Total delivery cost

Hence I can confirm that the total delivery charge should be 1.88 GBP for your order.

In this case, I would request you to place your order and if there is any incorrect delivery charge made please contact us, so that we will be happy to issue the refund. Please contact us using the following link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/email

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.co.uk.

Warmest regards


Sameer G.

Was very disappointed to find out that Amazon do not deliver children's shoes to Ireland:( Found a couple of great deals sold by Amazon themselves and they wouldn't allow them to be dispatched to my address. Briefly checked delivery restrictions and they don't deliver children's clothes either.

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