extortionate postage takes the piss

[blademansw]

I don't want to buy anything else. I just want to but the Orings I would expect to pay around £1.00 postage on such a small item but not over £3.00 That is nearly a bottle of liquid

What you would expect to pay, and what you have to pay are two different things. That is the joys of a free market economy. Supply and demand.

You have several options.

1. Bin your Vamo and buy a new mod. Which most online vendors will make you spend out for special delivery. Or go to a B&M and pay top whack.
2. Pay the recorded delivery price for the o-rings
3. Pay the £1.99 rebuildable supplies postage charge.
4. Drive to the o-ring shop and spend a fiver on fuel, and they still won't have one.
5. Spend all day surfing the net to find the product you want. I don't know about you, but my time is more valuable than that.

 

[maggazulu]

I think the complaint raises some genuine points.

What's terrible about most internet websites is that the BUY button is automated, so you're forced to pay whether you want the goods or not and before you can agree the postage rates. We're powerless, what can we do?

There are no search facilities on the internet, you can't find similar products elsewhere, nor can you compare pricing before the website you land on automatically extracts the funds from your credit card ... or PayPal ... or whatever payment mechanism the website's e-commerce function chooses. they've got you by the gonads there.

That Tim Berners-Lee fella, he ought to be shot for inventing the fecking internet ... and let's line up Anne Robinson, Julia Bradbury and Lynn Foulds Wood too while we're at it, I'm sure they invented consumerism and suppressed our right to complain about unscrupulous internet sites. Life's about our need to masturbate, it's not about wasting valuable hand shandy time having to search for what you want and making your own decisions.

It's so, so unfair ... consumers just don't have the choice anymore. I mean, Biriecig ... 40p for o-rings, £1.95 for postage ... it's another fucking rip off I'm telling you ... I'm off in the car now using free fuel and I damn well better get free parking too when I reach town and wander around looking for the o-ring shop ... if there's any justice in the world it's right next to the car park and the porn shop as I really can't be arsed looking around.

Hey, maybe the porn shop has a cock ring that would fit your Vamo?

Fuck off. There is no need to be a wanker about this, I have a valid pint to make
If you want to troll then go somewhere else.

 

[Danny K]

I don't want to buy anything else. I just want to but the Orings I would expect to pay around £1.00 postage on such a small item but not over £3.00 That is nearly a bottle of liquid

As others have said don't pay it then and either spend more in time and effort searching for said o rings.

Chances are I've got an o ring that will do the trick but what's the point in me spending my time to sort out all the particular details to upload and then my time to pack it, my time to treck down the post office and send it for someone that only wants to pay for a stamp ?

Check your local hardware shops they will have one but you will need to buy a pack of 100 and that will be even more money.


Rant over

 

[stealthvape]

Some time ago I posted on here about my Vamo V3 being broken, and someone mentioned that I should replace the O ring. I looked around on site and found Stealth Vape. However they had none in stock.

I gave them my email address so the could contact me when they are back in stock of which they did.

I decided to do something about it Today and went to buy a packet of O rings for 99p (which I think is a reasonable price)
I went through the whole process of giving my details at the checkout and having to going through PayPal

Only to find that the postage... the cheapest Stealth Vape offered was £3.20

£3.20 for a 99p item which weighs less than a couple of grams takes the Fucking piss.

When you have items of all sizes and weights and probably going on for 15 different postal services it gets complicated. That combined with the fact that there isn't a single Royal Mail postage module or integration that can calculate volumetric shipping. We'd need a team of savants to create such a system only for the system to break when Royal Mail change their weights, prices, services and dimensions every April the 1st. Can't escape the irony of their choice of dates.

We've had those particular orings in stock for about 18 months so I'm not 100% why you would have just received a notification about them. We're received OCD vamo connectors recently though so perhaps the notification was for those.

I wouldn't be happy paying £3.20 postage on some orings either, but remember we're not an oring seller and never expected any customers to come to our store to exclusively buy orings but rather pick them up along with other items.

I can't recommend enough a oring seller called George that runs a company called sealforce in Scotland and have mentioned him more than a couple of times on this forum. You can literally arm yourself with a set of callipers and phone him up and he'll work out exactly what size you need. His postage is pretty reasonable too. That's what he does, sells orings day in day out.

I've moved the orngs to the rebuildable supplies category to negate future public floggings

 

[maggazulu]

I told you there was a lower rate available. Did you miss it at the check-out?

Sorry I missed it I will look again thank you.

 

[blademansw]

I can't recommend enough a oring seller called George that runs a company called sealforce in Scotland and have mentioned him more than a couple of times on this forum. You can literally arm yourself with a set of callipers and phone him up and he'll work out exactly what size you need. His postage is pretty reasonable too. That's what he does, sells orings day in day out.

+1 for Sealforce :-)

 

[knome]

Sorry I missed it I will look again thank you.

Perhaps it wasn't there.
stealthvape has explained all

I say we have a brew and chill out.

 

[Rob]

knome Coffee, White, no sugar please and I'll bring the Biscuits.

 

[scrumpox]

+1 for Sealforce :-)

The trouble with Sealforce is that they're well hidden within many, many threads created by apes who've been looking for o-ring suppliers ... who's got time for that kind of tangential search when you've only got one hand free?

 

[Rob]

Other hand is holding Mug of Coffee, or perhaps a biscuit?