Delivery when ordering online

chuckcork

Not ordering anything cycling related, just a computer monitor for home, and the delivery options from Ebuyer had the free delivery option but you'd have to wait up to 5 days to get it. Being cheap, thats what I selected, but when I check against the courier company, they have it down to be delivered next working day.

If I'd selected that, or delivery within 4 days, it would have cost me about £10 instead!

Are companies out there purposly trying to trick people into paying extra for something they are likely to get anyway, like Royal Mail charging extra to deliver 1st class mail that arrives at the same time as 2nd?

Sirius631

chuckcork wrote:

Are companies out there purposly trying to trick people into paying extra for something they are likely to get anyway, like Royal Mail charging extra to deliver 1st class mail that arrives at the same time as 2nd?

If you pay for 1st class, your packages get put in the posher part of the van and get waiter service. :P

chuckcork

Sirius631 wrote:

chuckcork wrote:

Are companies out there purposly trying to trick people into paying extra for something they are likely to get anyway, like Royal Mail charging extra to deliver 1st class mail that arrives at the same time as 2nd?

If you pay for 1st class, your packages get put in the posher part of the van and get waiter service. :P

I bet they get priority check-in and window seats as standard?

steve-m

chuckcork wrote:

Not ordering anything cycling related, just a computer monitor for home, and the delivery options from Ebuyer had the free delivery option but you'd have to wait up to 5 days to get it. Being cheap, thats what I selected, but when I check against the courier company, they have it down to be delivered next working day.

If I'd selected that, or delivery within 4 days, it would have cost me about £10 instead!

Are companies out there purposly trying to trick people into paying extra for something they are likely to get anyway, like Royal Mail charging extra to deliver 1st class mail that arrives at the same time as 2nd?

The super saver option means they will do it when they can so if they are busy then you will wait the five days since other's get the priority. I always go the the cheapo option and it is usually pretty quick, especially this time of year.