Missed out on the last Borealis deal and came through this deal while shopping around.
The RRP for this bag is $150
There is a pickup available for $2 in Sydney only.
Postage is 9.95 for all over Australia
This price is for Prussian Blue/Sulfur Spring Green only.
The Anchorage Green/Dark Sage Green colour is also available for $104.95
Moreover they have got 20% off going on storewide at the moment.
Not really. It means people who are serious about picking up a bag will be willing to pay the $2 for the convenience of it being reserved for them. I think it's fine.
So just charge upfront, a nearly $100 purchase shouldn't be charged a trivial fee
So this is a $2 stock reservation fee?
You can come work in my shop for FREE :p
Staff labour isn't free. Some body has to process the order and pick the item off the shelf. If a business isn't charging for pickup then it means their profit margins are high.
So incorporate it into the product price.
It's a pretty simple concept to set a product price which includes the business costs of offering the product. What part of that are you having difficulty with?
Why would they not every body chooses the pickup option. That would just increase the price for every body. It's an alternative to the $9.95 delivery fee. In my books that $2 pickup fee is cheaper than getting it delivered.
seriously if you have to pay $2 for picking up an item, I say they can keep it. Anyway to get a buck out of the consumer these days, they need to be made aware this won't be tolerated. Soone it will be $5 then $10.
in the future
"$100 for pickup fee?! But the item only costs $2!"
What a whinger. They are an online shop. They offer this as an alternative to having to pay delivery. Just because you aren't happy doesn't mean other customers have to suffer. Take your neg and
So delivery which costs $9.95 includes also the handling fee of $2 as well hey :). Its a simply greedy money grab. If they can post the item for $9.95 all over Australia (which is about right) it just shows you the greedy fingers at play here.
it is not greed. they would prefer to just use postage. they offer this for the convenience of customers. it troubles them a lot more than $2.
Agree with Stringr. If you can't purchase the item for the advertised price, it is deceptive. Like the airlines tried when they advertised flights cheaply, then added surcharges and fees that couldn't be avoided.
Like delivery fee that can't be avoided if you don't live any where near the store?. Heck you might as well have a whinge and demand free delivery because it "shouldn't be tolerated having to pay".
You are buying the item at the advertised price. The fee is an extra service not the actual product item price. There's no difference from the pickup fee you're being delivered an item into your hands except you're paying a handling fee because some paid employee has to use up the companies time to seek the item off the shelf and do extra account processing. That stuff doesn't come totally free to the business they have to employee people to do it.
"Like delivery fee that can't be avoided if you don't live any where near the store?."
That is different as shipment service is being offered and for $9.95 as mentioned I suppose your going to argue that this includes the so called $2 handling fee lol.
"…The fee is an extra service not the actual product item price. There's no difference from the pickup fee you're being delivered an item into your hands except you're paying a handling fee because some paid employee has to use up the companies time to seek the item off the shelf and do extra account processing"
As mentioned above it seems you think the postage fee of $9.95 includes this so called handling fee.
Next people like you will be happy to accept a fee for breathing the oxygen in the store.
The best you can do is a straw man argument? When you pay for delivery, you get something extra, it's not surprising that it costs extra.
When you go to your local supermarket, do you expect a $2 packet of biscuits will suddenly become $2.50 at the checkout, because the supermarket added part of the wages of the checkout person and part of the rent of the premises?
The expectation of the public is that if you advertise something at a price, it can be bought AT THAT PRICE. To do anything else would mean that you couldn't trust ANY advertised price, because that's not the price you will pay.
Tell us also, why does the ACCC investigate and successfully prosecute companies that use deceptive pricing?
I assume this is not directed at my post as I agree you don't expect the packet of biscuits to suddenly cost $2.50 at checkout as you say. I totally agree, it seems people who are trying to justify the $2 fee think that this occurs everywhere and is some how the norm and should be accepted.
If your selling a price, put the advertise price down and don't try and bleed your customer for extra money with idiotic fees
what is so deceptive about a disclosed shipping cost??????
shoppers know that when buying online you pay the product price and the shipping price. its written there in black and white.
shipping can be combined, or free in certain orders. THAT PRICE is the price of the product. the airlines got in trouble as they were advertising a fare that didn't include fees on their advertising, completely different to a website non ad.
Except it's you who's gone and picked up that item off the shelf and taken it to the register so there's no employee labour involved in that item handling. Different to an online shop with a B&M pickup front when an employee may have to go all the way out the back to a warehouse storage area to find and pick an item off a warehouse shelf for a customer who's selected pickup and bring it out to the front pickup area and then process it which takes employee time and money for the business. It may take at least 5 minutes out of the employees time to do that. And as you might know employee time doesn't come free there's labour pay per the hour and every minute taken by the employee cost the business money. It's business economics paying for employee time doesn't come free.
By the way a delivery charge does include a handling fee. That's why that's called postage & handling. Same goes for the pickup fee it's a handling fee. Employee time does not come free. Business economics extra services don't come free to a business there's always employee time and money involved.
Every delivery fee includes a handling charge factored into it. Postage & Handling. This shop is only passing on that handling charge onto store pickup orders as well. Employee labour doesn't come free.
redudant posts aside, all of that could be negated by an organised pick up
Wow they charge you to pickup, kind of greedy.