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goten said:We also all know it doesn't cost $12 to ship a 40lb case of diapers: it costs much more than that. Probably $40 a case is shipping as a ballpark estimate.
This is a $12 price increase per case, or roughly a 10% price hike. That's fine, and I may have to go back to less expensive yet lower quality competitors, because I too am hurting for money in this economy.
But I would recommend being honest about it and just increasing the price of the products on the storefront instead of tacking it on like that's the whole shipping cost when it's clearly not. Or even better, make the shipping costs the true shipping costs, and lower the prices of the storefront items to no longer hide any of the shipping fees. But if that's done, please give a rough estimate of the shipping fees on the product pages. Hiding them until checkout is deceptive.
And this right here is where you are incorrect. Shipping costs by weight generally only apply to civilians and bussinesses that do not ship often. A retail and distribution business Normally has contracted bulk shipping costs, With as much as they ship It's likely that they are just paying shipping by truckload freight standards. At $12 flat rate if they load an entire rig the $12 per package covers the cost of the full truckload shipping. You complain about the cost of shipping going up but bare in mind every year it gets more and more exspensive to run these trucks down the road. When i fuel my rig its anywhere from $400-$700 every two days Your shipping costs pay for that, Bear in mind that shipping is a service not a right, If the cost to operate goes up the cost you have to pay goes up, And the cost to operate has skyrocketed in the last 5 years and the cost you pay has not changed for the most part A lot of small freight companies are going under because of cheap freight. $12 Is not a lot of money For a single person But they can load a couple hundred orders in a 53' trailer and $12 x few hundred Will equal out the truck shipping cost. Be grateful for what goes on behind the scenes Because I can guarantee you it's nowhere near as simple as you're trying to make it out to be.
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