Hey everyone,

I spent about an hour last night ordering loads of free stuff from vistaprint.

The total saved comes to £56 BUT on the next page the p&p is £16.18 (and that's for the slow 21 days service).

Is it normal for p&p to cost this much or have I messed up?

I've not used Vistaprint personally since learning about their little scam, but it doesn't surprise me that their P & P is so high. I guess they have to make their money somehow!

Are you sure that is just p&p? I know when I go on to get my 'freebies' I always end up a little shocked at the checkout but I always upload my own pictures which they charge for. Re-check your invoice and see what they have actually charged for.

Had already double checked everything to make all items were free. Noticed they charged £2.99 for the FREE pen so emptied that out of the cart. Went through to checkout again & they're still charging loads for p&p.

I can only think it's becasuse I went through the same email link each time for the freebies so have been charged p&p several times over.

It's not just P&P, it usually includes some production charges... the product it's self is free but they still charge for setting up and running the print.. that kind of thing.

Even still, I find them to be excellent value and the orders I've placed seem to arrive a lot sooner than they say.

Vistaprint do seem to make their money from p+p on the freebies but when items are on offer you will find the post cheaper. Also I have left items in my cart and the price can go up and down throughout the day so keep checking over a couple of days and grab the goods when you feel you have a bargain. I use them and find them fantastic and cheaper than anywhere so no complaints. Make sure you check exactly what you are printing I got some Xmas cards but forgot to remove the Vistaprint web address off the back, the cards were free so I can re order.

I think it depends on what you order i ordered 250 business cards,50 postcards,25 brouchures,car door magnet and window decal and the postage was about £9.71 that also includes VAT tbh i think i got a bargin there as i got all that for under £10 x

P&P is always high with vista print. I think that is how they recoup some money from their offers. I order from them and it it is still cheaper than the local printers including p&p.

The more you order the more the postage, I ordered about 5 seperate items last week and my postage was abouy £7. Yet if I just ordered some return address labels its about £1.70

I don't mind paying the postage as it still works out a lot cheaper than going to the printers !

Considering the amount you save on products, the postage is ok. A friend was looking at ordering 2000 business cards through a standard printer. Through Vistaprint he could order 10 000 for the same price with postage.

Well, as you appear to be getting £56 worth of stuff for £16, I wouldn't actually call it that bad....sorry!

I know it's not that bad & I'm not a cheap skate (honest) but usually geeks are raving on about how cheap even the p&p is so didn't want to be diddled.

As it happens, when I went to check out the order yesterday most of the prices had gone up so they wanted £27 plus p&p (not sure how much though for that).

Phoned them up & got the products free but I think she must have processed the order with a faster p&p service as it ended up costing £25 in total. Still not a bad deal.

Had another email today with loads more freebies so perhaps will try the little & often approach.

I usually order things every 6 weeks and spend £12 on p&p but get:

100 postcards
250 biz cards
25 leaflets
1 pen
10 gift vouchers with envelopes
1 door sign (see through thing, can't thing what they are called)

The door sign is called a window sticker I think!!.. the P&P is priced because of the weight of the free products you have ordered. hth x

I have used vistaprint manytimes and have been happy with them, but I am curious to know what is their little scam???