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[Hunter87]

36 minutes ago, Coolsmp said:

Harrington & Byrne Sovs are back on discount:

https://harringtonandbyrne.co.uk/2021-united-kingdom-gold-sovereign-5469.html

Does anyone have any ideas how long the discount will run?

[MetalsMan]

59 minutes ago, Coolsmp said:

Harrington & Byrne Sovs are back on discount:

https://harringtonandbyrne.co.uk/2021-united-kingdom-gold-sovereign-5469.html

Just bought one at £319, although just seen the t's and c's on the page and it's main page talking about £349. Hope that's honoured!

 

 

[Touvex]

1 minute ago, leotsend said:

Just bought one at £319, although just seen the t's and c's on the page and it's main page talking about £349. Hope that's honoured!

 

 

How did you order? the checkout function seems to be broken, couldnt progress...

[MetalsMan]

Just now, Touvex said:

How did you order? the checkout function seems to be broken, couldnt progress...

Registered from the homepage rather than via the coin purchase process. 

[MetalsMan]

3 minutes ago, leotsend said:

Just bought one at £319, although just seen the t's and c's on the page and it's main page talking about £349. Hope that's honoured!

 

 

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[Coverte]

1 hour ago, Coolsmp said:

Harrington & Byrne Sovs are back on discount:

https://harringtonandbyrne.co.uk/2021-united-kingdom-gold-sovereign-5469.html

I have no experience with them, but this is not promising:

Harringtonandbyrne Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of harringtonandbyrne.co.uk (trustpilot.com)

[MetalsMan]

3 minutes ago, Coverte said:

I have no experience with them, but this is not promising:

Harringtonandbyrne Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of harringtonandbyrne.co.uk (trustpilot.com)

Oh good.... (thanks for spotting).

[GenX]

1 hour ago, Coolsmp said:

Harrington & Byrne Sovs are back on discount:

https://harringtonandbyrne.co.uk/2021-united-kingdom-gold-sovereign-5469.html

Today I also ordered a sovereign at £319. Some negative reviews re the company so exercise caution. 

Make sure you download your receipt (order confirmation), which does show £319. They haven't sent the receipt via email. You can also see your order status after logging in under your account dashboard. My card payment is pending at £319.

A sovereign at today's spot price is little over £313. Fingers crossed they do the right thing and honour our orders.

[27carrots]

1 hour ago, Hunter87 said:

Does anyone have any ideas how long the discount will run?

last time it was about 2 days

it runs until they run out and they do it every 10 weeks or so

check march 10 in this thread for last time

give them a fake phone number if you buy

Edited May 23, 2021 by 27carrots

[MetalsMan]

18 minutes ago, GenX said:

Today I also ordered a sovereign at £319. Some negative reviews re the company so exercise caution. 

Make sure you download your receipt (order confirmation), which does show £319. They haven't sent the receipt via email. You can also see your order status after logging in under your account dashboard. My card payment is pending at £319.

A sovereign at today's spot price is little over £313. Fingers crossed they do the right thing and honour our orders.

I've had a reservation email through with the order / purchase details. 

 

Looking at my 3 main go to sites, ATS, Atkinskons and Chards all look at least £9 over this price. Maybe I'm coming at it from the wrong angle but that seems to be bargain, however.... will it stick...

[Stacktastic]

1 hour ago, Coverte said:

I have no experience with them

Your going to wish you didn't if you do order from them as they will send you 2 loads of promotion a week with massively over inflated c**p. 
They have certainly lost a customer from me, i would rather Pay £10-15 more with @LawrenceChardor similar.

[Hunter87]

11 minutes ago, Stacktastic said:

Your going to wish you didn't if you do order from them as they will send you 2 loads of promotion a week with massively over inflated c**p. 
They have certainly lost a customer from me, i would rather Pay £10-15 more with @LawrenceChardor similar.

£10-15 more per coin soon ads up. 

[Nugget]

I didn't have any issues with H&B.  I set my account to no marketing and told the account manager when I had my initial issue setting up for the £299 offer. Thus far, no issues with junk mail.

Perhaps it was because of the issue I had when I placed my first order, and the account manager called me to sort my double payment refund out.  He was a nice chap, we had a little chat and I made it clear I only purchase bullion..so probably didn't fancy wasting their time with me ?

Edited May 23, 2021 by Nugget

[MetalsMan]

2 minutes ago, Nugget said:

I didn't have any issues with H&B.  I set my account to no marketing and told the account manager when I had my initial issue setting up for the £299 offer. Thus far, no issues with junk mail.

I'll see how it plays out. The registration does specify you actually have to contact them to stop marketing but we'll see.

[Nugget]

2 minutes ago, leotsend said:

I'll see how it plays out. The registration does specify you actually have to contact them to stop marketing but we'll see.

Worst case, just do the below 🙂

 

If you receive unwanted mail with a return address on the envelope you can write 'unsolicited mail, please return to sender' on the envelope and put it back in the post unstamped. The sender will have to pay the return postage which may prompt them to remove your details from their mailing lists.

 

https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/how-do-i-stop-unwanted-junk-mail-a69Ed0z8dVnq#:~:text=If you receive unwanted mail,details from their mailing lists.

 

[Coverte]

5 minutes ago, Hunter87 said:

£10-15 more per coin soon ads up. 

You can only buy 1 per year, £9 in any stack, in my opinion, it not very consequential.

18 minutes ago, Stacktastic said:

Your going to wish you didn't if you do order from them as they will send you 2 loads of promotion a week with massively over inflated c**p. 
They have certainly lost a customer from me, i would rather Pay £10-15 more with @LawrenceChardor similar.

@Stacktastic

I concur, my experience also, you know where you are with Chards, and in fairness, a small number of others.

[Hunter87]

I’ve had a fair few discounted full and half Sovereigns off them and they never once cancelled my order all went to the same address too. 

[Hunter87]

Seems like the link is no longer valid! 

[Coverte]

9 minutes ago, Hunter87 said:

I’ve had a fair few discounted full and half Sovereigns off them and they never once cancelled my order all went to the same address too. 

 

I can see the attraction, however, personally, contravening their own 'special offer' terms, does not give me any greater confidence in them as anything more than a hit and run supplier.

[LawrenceChard]

2 hours ago, Hunter87 said:

Does anyone have any ideas how long the discount will run?

Probably until they run out of stock.

I think most TSF members know that H&B run a loss leader programme.

They must make an actual loss of about £3 to £4 each, plus their "free postage" cost, making about £8 to £9 loss per order.

They also advertise these offers in national newspapers, perhaps costing them another £10 to £20 per sale.

Why would they willingly lose up to about £30?

That's quite cheap to add another new customer to a mailing list.

There are many ways they can recoup this.

One is to do a "bait and switch". Try buying it by telephone, and they will probably try to sell you an overpriced proof sovereign, or some other coin at a rip-off price, and their salesman might lie to you in the attempt.

I thoroughly encourage one and all to do this. If you do, please report your experience here, it should be fun (for us at least). The downside is that it will probably waste about 20 minutes of your life (but it would be in a good cause).

This is not the first time I have encouraged people to buy a new bullon sovereign from H&B. In the past, they used to allow you to buy up to 3 coins per new customer, but probably thanks to TSF, they have restricted that to just one single coin per year.

The same might still happen if you order by post or online, so it would also be interesting to hear the feedback from members who try this. 🙂

[LawrenceChard]

49 minutes ago, Stacktastic said:

Your going to wish you didn't if you do order from them as they will send you 2 loads of promotion a week with massively over inflated c**p. 
They have certainly lost a customer from me, i would rather Pay £10-15 more with @LawrenceChardor similar.

Thank you for the mention.

I just checked our prices at @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer, and for 1 coin, we were £12 more, plus we charge £6 postage, meaning you would be saving £18 buying from H&B. I would love all 10,000 TSF members to buy one from H&B,

Of course, if you have to pay their "normal" price of £349, it will cost you £12 more than buying from us, even on a single coin basis. If you buy 2 from us, you will be saving £30 allowing for postage.

Buy 5 or more from us, and you start getting quantity discounts. We would also be very happy to sell you 1000 at about £327 each, saving you more than £2100 after postage and insurance, compared with H&B.

[LawrenceChard]

2 hours ago, leotsend said:

Just bought one at £319, although just seen the t's and c's on the page and it's main page talking about £349. Hope that's honoured!

I have never known them fail to honour their loss-leader deal, after all, they make these offers in full knowledge thay they make a loss on the first sale. It is their cost of getting you onto their database, and hopefully onto their mailing list.

[LawrenceChard]

1 hour ago, GenX said:

Today I also ordered a sovereign at £319. Some negative reviews re the company so exercise caution. 

Make sure you download your receipt (order confirmation), which does show £319. They haven't sent the receipt via email. You can also see your order status after logging in under your account dashboard. My card payment is pending at £319.

A sovereign at today's spot price is little over £313. Fingers crossed they do the right thing and honour our orders.

I'm sure they will.

BTW, your avatar photo looks rather familiar! 🙂

[LawrenceChard]

53 minutes ago, Hunter87 said:

£10-15 more per coin soon ads up. 

No it doesn't, as they will not knowingly allow you to buy another one from them at the loss-leader price until next year, so it will actually add up very sllowwlllyyy indeed.

🙂

[LawrenceChard]

46 minutes ago, Coverte said:

You can only buy 1 per year, £9 in any stack, in my opinion, it not very consequential.

@Stacktastic

I concur, my experience also, you know where you are with Chards, and in fairness, a small number of others.

Thanks again.

...and you can always call in to see us in our actual "bricks and mortar" showroom, talk face to face with us, see our happy, smiling faces, and save paying our postage charge.

You  might even get offered a cuppa if you mention you are a TSF member! 🙂