I hit my two month mark tomorrow [October 2nd] and I want to order one of the one month bracelets. So I go to check out, and much to my horror, the shipping is going to cost $21!! Yikes!
So how do I change the shipping method?
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$21? Are they sending it overnight or something?!? The bracelets should be small enough to fit in an envelope, which can go in regular letter mail for probably less than $5...
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don't it depend on if your getting the braclet sent first class. i've ordered 3 things from there but mine came to £13.90. have a look when you go to the checkout and see if you can change the 1st class to 2nd or something & see if the price is any different. Congrats on your 2month mark!
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You only have a choice of first or second class mail if you live in the UK. If you're in the US it doesn't give you a choice. Though it does seem that if I display the prices in pounds rather than dollars it will still let me enter a US address, but will only charge £0.99 of postages (about $2 US). I don't want to see if it would actually go through though in case it does work, since I don't want to cheat them if it does costs them that much to mail it, but yeah.
Although, I just checked the Royal Mail website, and for it to actually cost $21 (£10.50) to mail it to the US, the bracelet would have to weigh close to a kilogram. Somehow I find it hard to believe that a bracelet weighs that much. Also, if it did weigh a kilogram, then first class mail within the UK would cost £2.92 rather than 99p, and in order for postage to be 109p (the lowest possible for a packet, and I'm assuming it's over 25mm thick), it would have to weigh under 100g, and postage to the US should be £1.58. So, um, I think they're kinda cheating us on this... Harley?
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I am very sorry, for some unknown reason the prices got screwed up for that product - something to do with me messing around to try and get it free, bar the postage.
As you will now see - postage for 1 months free bracelets is £1 to the UK and $3 to the US
Don't worry, RYL is not in the game of ripping members off - especially when we are trying to support people by giving them free stuff! :)
Yay! I thought that seemed a bit un-RYL-like. I can go order a bracelet now
So I'm assuming it's under 100g then, but unless I'm missing something, you're taking a small loss on postage for each bracelet? Or do you get some kind of volume discount or something? Having just worked out exactly how much postage ought to cost, I'm now kinda curious why it's a little off from what I thought it should be.
And btw, you might want to look into the thing about basing shipping charges on currency rather than shipping address, I can pay for things in pounds despite having a US credit card, so unless it blocks it later on, I could pay the lower UK postage rate and still give a US shipping address. I'm not sure I'd actually come out ahead that way as it looks like you're giving us a better exchange rate than my bank would, but I think you'd still lose money on it, and only the bank would win...
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RYL worries more about convience of payment for members and clarifying the system than screwing members out of every last penny :)
Since every penny goes right back into the community anyway, keeping it running and available all the time - it wouldnt make sense to work things so that members were feeling in any way hard done by - since the commuinty and RYL are here to help!
And if a member really wants to save a little bit of money so that they can do RYL out of it, go right ahead to be honest...they can live with themselves. Since again everything goes back into the community, they would do so knowing they were essentially stealing from everyone :)
I'm not sure why having it come to a round number makes a difference for paying with a credit card, but since you could just as easily change the price of the bracelet itself by 10p or whatever to make up for it, I suppose it doesn't make much difference in the end. Personally I tend to think that postage that comes to a round number is more likely to include a profit for the seller, as actual postage is rarely that even, and RYL is the only vendor I've ever seen that rounds down, but then I'm also compulsive enough to check the actual rates anyway, and most normal people probably don't even think about it. I do hope that the profit on the bracelets is more than the loss on postage though, as my understanding is that part of the point is to raise money to keep the site running...
Anyway, sorry for picking apart the system so much - it's not like it actually makes a difference in the end, I just tend to notice these things...
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