I occasionally buy from Ilford directly when there's free p/p or a good percentage reduction on their items. This is usually when I only need one item or a heavy item that would incur large p/p costs from other retailers.
Looking at 120 HP5+ on Ilford's website, they quote £5.51 for a single roll, but £29.19 for five rolls (= £5.83 a roll). It just doesn't make sense for a larger order to cost more than a single item. And just checking, if I add 4 rolls to the shopping basket, followed by a further single roll, I do indeed get the better price of £27.55 for 5 rolls (then minus the 15% off promotion), plus p/p of course.
I now wonder how many other miss-priced / miss-calculated items are on their (and maybe even other companies) websites, where it's cheaper to buy single items in multiples, rather than larger amounts with quoted prices?
Terry S
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