Have you ever considered, you know, asking the company/person if there's any chance of a cheaper option if it's (say) listed at £10 fixed postage for a few springs? I have, and succeeded before.Mattnall wrote: I can understand why many offer a flat-rate shipping, but the problem comes when you order a small item and find you are paying maybe £10 for shipping, the same as if you ordered many much larger items. The shipper wins on some and loses on others but has the ease of knowing exactly what any order will cost to ship. As the individual buyer you may win or you may lose, it's your choice, you can always go elsewhere.
And I quite like fixed postage after Kranks charged me £4 to deliver a thousand 240gr bullets + other stuff. Again, it comes down to "win on some, lose on others".
As has been said above, anyone who thinks cost of P+P = cost of a stamp and envelope is either deluded, being deliberately obtuse or hasn't sold anything via post recently.
For instance, I've got exactly the "stick it in a jiffy bag and in a postbox when you're passing" situation with something I'm selling at the moment- a scope rail for an Umarex pistol. Unfortunately it rather breaks down when you consider that a jiffy bag with anything remotely bulky (ie. not a letter or sheet) doesn't come under the "62p for a stamp" argument anymore and, with the number of scammers about, realistically has to go at least signed for.
These days I just list everything as "£x posted" to avoid the types who point out you can post it for £0.02 cheaper, or the "post it not signed for, bruv" types.
