AIBU to find free delivery thresholds frustrating when totals miss by pence

[Njuy]

It really annoys me when buying stuff on a website where you get free delivery if spending £50. When the items cost £17.99, £13.49 etc.

You buy items costing £49.96. So have to search the cheapest thing you will or someone else will use.

Why can’t these websites either sell items rounded up from £17.99 to £18 or allow a few pence discrepancy

For exactly that reason, it's a marketing tactic to get you to spend more.

Well yes, they do this on purpose

Because you dont think they actually want to give you free delivery do you? If they did, itd be free already, for any spend.

YANBU esp Deliveroo. I’ve tried optimising to just hit the min spend of £15 but it’s impossible and when you account for the increased service fee when you overshoot, you are not in most cases making savings. I often have to make decisions about what I value the extra item to be to see if it’s worth it or not.

I think there ought to be regulation over such offers.