I'd rather just pay the shipping for it. Like they said, the shipping costs vary. I used to see people on eBay offer stuff for a crazy cheap price but then the shipping for the item was insane.
Like, an action figure that usually goes for about $20 for $2, but with shipping charges of $25. I've had some people add random and completely unrelated items to the box to bring up the weight and increase the shipping cost I had to pay them. I don't get that...O_O But there was one comic seller who stuffed the envelope with two completely unrelated comics and at first I thought they were loony. But then I realized that they may have been used as 'packing peanuts', two 'worthless' comics to protect the one I actually bought from being damaged in the mail. In which case that's pretty hilarious. (They were 'junk' comics, ones given out for free advertising or promotional stuff, with billions of them around and not worth the paper they're printed on.)
But I haven't found the shipping to be ridiculously expensive with Northshore. Pretty reasonable, actually. LOL It takes a lot of work to get things from here to there. There's the packaging up, labeling, putting it onto a truck, taking it off of that truck at a distribution center, then onto a different truck, off that one and into another distribution center, onto another smaller truck and finally it's on it's way to my house. Shipping isn't just "Put it on the truck", it's like a crazy game of pass the parcel only no one gets to unwrap anything. So if I gotta pay $20 for shipping, I'm cool with it. They gotta make money to take care of their trucks, buy fuel, and pay their drivers. :3
Honestly I'm sometimes impressed by the ability of logistics companies to NOT lose everything. It happens sometimes, but it's unusual. (Actually, had that happen on an international eBay order. Got package 1 and 3, and 2 was lost somewhere for a month. Then it showed up, taped back up with an inspection label on it. I said they just wanted to play with the action figures I'd bought. XD)