At 17:00 on Thursday 13th April 2023 we will begin rolling out changes to our product pricing.
If you’re already assuming the worst — please don’t — the changes that we’re making are mostly positive.
This announcement is here to provide full transparency over the upcoming changes, and whilst the price of some products is unfortunately on the rise, many of our prices are actually being reduced!
Based on historic data, any increases that we’re implementing will only affect a small number of customers — whereas reductions will benefit a considerably higher number of customers. Price rises in most cases are very minimal (we’re talking a penny in some instances).
Continue reading if you’d like to know more about the changes we’re making & why we’re making them, or if you’d rather just skip and view the pricing update:
HISTORIC PRICING UPDATES
Many of our long-term customers will know that the majority of our prices have been the same for several years — this is not because we’re immune to inflation, but because we value our customers. Given many of you have been on an extended journey with us, we’ve made it our number one priority to stick by you as you have done us.
We pride ourselves as being a small family-run business and our goal is and always has been to provide the very best quality Black Seed products whilst maintaining affordable prices and providing same-day despatch and FAST & FREE UK shipping.
As we’ve grown as a business we’ve developed bigger buying power which has helped us greatly bring some costs down. Rather than being greedy, we’ve passed such savings on to our customers whenever possible — either by maintaining or lowering prices year on year, by offering improved shipping services at subsidised rates (whilst still providing FREE shipping on all UK orders!), and by holding frequent promotional offers.
We’d like to think this hasn’t gone unnoticed.
WHY ARE WE MAKING CHANGES NOW?
Since the start of the Pandemic our overall costs have risen greatly, and it’s become very challenging for us as a business without making some changes.
From packaging supplies through to rent & rates, utilities, product packaging, raw materials, manufacturing costs, air & sea transport, payment processing fees, the cost of shipping services… and everything else in between — there’s not a single cost that hasn’t risen for us in the last few years, and by quite a margin.
In particular during the last 6 months, there is no doubt that everyone has been affected by inflation.
Whilst we continue to do our best to keep our prices fair, equally we’re reluctant to make changes that will see the quality of our products decrease or the level of service that we offer, lower.
So yes we’ve had to increase some prices, but at the same time we’ve also lowered many of our prices. Why? Because we can.
WHAT CHANGES ARE WE MAKING?
We’ve assessed lots of data from the last few years (mostly in regards to customer buying habits), and spent several months crunching & getting creative with the numbers in order to establish a compromise that allows us to offset some of the rising costs that we’re facing, whilst at the same time adding further value to which customers who have remained brand-loyal will benefit from.
The majority of price increases will be in relation to Multi-Buy (these prices will always be quite volatile due to the yield of each batch of oil that we produce) — with the only other real noticeable price increase being to single bottle purchases of our 100ml Original Oil. With the latter, we’ve simply had to increase the price to cover rising shipping costs.
On the subject of Shipping — we’re making some improvements there too (some of you may have noticed recently that we’ve been trialling a new FREE/Tracked UK shipping option for lower value orders). You can read more about changes to Shipping, here.
Below you will find a full transparent update of our product pricing which we believe the vast majority will be appreciative of…
APRIL 2023 CORE PRICING UPDATE
The below update will be rolled out from 17:00 on Thursday 13th April, 2023. The full roll-out may take a few hours, but all price changes should be implemented by midnight latest.
// BLACK SEED OIL & CAPSULE STARTER PACKS
Capsule Starter Pack — NOW £35.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £37.97)
Bottled Oil Starter Pack — NOW £35.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £36.99)
// NIGELLA SEEDS & POWDER
Nigella Sativa Seeds 100g — NOW £6 (PRICE DROP, WAS £6.49)
Ground Nigella Sativa Seeds/ Powder 100g — NOW £7 (PRICE DROP, WAS £7.99)
// BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE REFILL PACKS
Original Black Seed Oil Capsule Refill Pack — NOW £10.99 (WAS £10.49)
Strong Black Seed Oil Capsule Refill Pack — £12.99 (price unchanged)
Super-Strength Black Seed Oil Capsule Refill Pack — £13.99 (price unchanged)
// BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE MAX PACKS
Original Black Seed Oil Capsule Max Pack — NOW £29.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £31.99)
Strong Black Seed Oil Capsule Max Pack — NOW £39.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £41.99)
Super-Strength Black Seed Oil Capsule Max Pack — £43.99 (price unchanged)
// BLACK SEED OIL 100ML BOTTLES
Original Black Seed Oil 100ml — NOW £11 (WAS £9.99)
Strong Black Seed Oil 100ml — NOW £13 (WAS £12.99)
Super-Strength Black Seed Oil 100ml — NOW £15 (WAS £14.99)
// BLACK SEED OIL 250ML BOTTLES
Original Black Seed Oil 250ml — NOW £20 (WAS £19.99)
Strong Black Seed Oil 250ml — NOW £28 (WAS £27.99)
Super-Strength Black Seed Oil 250ml — NOW £33 (WAS £32.99)
// BLACK SEED OIL 500ML BOTTLES
Super-Strength Black Seed Oil 500ml — NOW £59 (PRICE DROP, WAS £59.99)
THE ABOVE PRICING APPLIES TO SINGLE PRODUCT PURCHASES ONLY. UPDATES TO MULTI-BUY ARE NOTED BELOW…
APRIL 2023 MULTI-BUY PRICING UPDATE
The below update to Multi-buy will be rolled out from 17:00 on Thursday 13th April, 2023. The full roll-out may take a few hours, but all changes should be implemented by midnight latest.
Unsure what Multi-buy is? Multi-buy is designed to provide customers with automatic discounts all year round when buying 2 or more of the same product. The more of the same product you buy, the cheaper the cost of each product becomes. You can read more about Multi-buy here: What is Multi-buy?
// STARTER PACKS
CAPSULE STARTER PACK
[2+] £32.99 (NEW PRICING TIER)
BOTTLED OIL STARTER PACK
[2+] £32.99 (NEW PRICING TIER)
// SEEDS & POWDER
NIGELLA SATIVA SEEDS 100G
[2-9] £5.00 (PRICE DROP, WAS £5.49)
[10+] £3.00 (PRICE DROP, WAS £3.49)
GROUND NIGELLA SATIVA SEEDS/POWDER 100G
[2-9] £6.00 (PRICE DROP, WAS £7.49)
[10+] £4.00 (PRICE DROP, WAS £4.49)
// CAPSULE REFILL PACKS
ORIGINAL BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE REFILL PACK
[2] £9.50 -> £9.99
[3-4*] £8.75 -> £8.99[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £8.50
[5-9] £8.20 -> £8.49
[10+] £7.90 -> £7.99[24+] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £7.80
STRONG BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE REFILL PACK
[2] £11.99 (PRICE UNCHANGED)
[3-4*] £10.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £11.49)[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £10.49
[5-9] £10.40 -> £10.49
[10+] £9.60 -> £9.99[24+] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £9.20
SUPER-STRENGTH BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE REFILL PACK
[2] £12.49 (PRICE UNCHANGED)
[3-4*] £11.66 -> £11.99[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £11.00[5-9] £10.50 -> £10.99
[10+] £9.70 -> £10.49[24+] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £9.45
// CAPSULE MAX PACKS
ORIGINAL BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE MAX PACK
[2] £27.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £29.99)
[3+] £26.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £28.99)
STRONG BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE MAX PACK
[2] £37.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £39.99)
[3+] £35.99 (PRICE DROP, WAS £36.99)
SUPER-STRENGTH BLACK SEED OIL CAPSULE MAX PACK
[2] £41.99 (PRICE UNCHANGED)
[3+] £39.99 (PRICE UNCHANGED)
// 100ML BOTTLED OIL
ORIGINAL BLACK SEED OIL 100ML
[2] £9.50 -> £10.00
[3-4*] £9.33 -> £9.50[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £9.00[5+] £8.50 (PRICE DROP, WAS £8.60)[10+] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £8.49
STRONG BLACK SEED OIL 100ML
[2] £11.50 -> £12.00
[3-4*] £11.33 -> £11.50[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £10.99[5+] £10.50 (PRICE DROP, WAS £10.60)[10+] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £9.99
SUPER-STRENGTH BLACK SEED OIL 100ML
[2] £13.49 -> £14.00
[3-4*] £13.29 -> £13.50[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £12.79[5+] £12.39 -> £12.50[10+] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £11.99
// 250ML BOTTLED OIL
ORIGINAL BLACK SEED OIL 250ML
[2] £18.99 -> £19.00
[3-4*] £17.50 (PRICE DROP, WAS £18.49)[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £17.49[5+] £17.00 (NEW PRICING TIER)
STRONG BLACK SEED OIL 250ML
[2] £26.99 -> £27.00
[3-4*] £25.50 (PRICE DROP, WAS £25.99)[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £24.99[5+] £24.00 (NEW PRICING TIER)
SUPER-STRENGTH BLACK SEED OIL 250ML
[2] £30.99 -> £31.00
[3-4*] £29.50 (PRICE DROP, WAS £29.99)[*4] OPTION REMOVED – WAS £28.99[5+] £28.00 (NEW PRICING TIER)
// 500ML BOTTLED OIL
SUPER-STRENGTH BLACK SEED OIL 500ML
[2] £49.50 (PRICE DROP, WAS £49.99)
[3-5] £40.99 -> £43.00
[6+] £38.99 -> £40.00
Super Strength Black Seed Oil - 500ml Bottle
Super Strength Black Seed Oil Capsules (Vegan) - Refill Pack
Super Strength Black Seed Oil - 100ml Bottle
Super Strength Black Seed Oil Capsules (Vegan) - Max Pack