<div class="gmail_extra">It's like the airline tickets SWMBO found. REALLY low price but fee for carry on, fee for boarding pass, fee for, well, everything. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:08 -0400, <a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a> wrote:<br>
> On 04/27/2012 11:59 AM, arxaaron wrote:<br>
> > The +$X.XX shipping noted on the item pages is PER ITEM.<br>
> > I figured to get a few of these but bailed when I saw a $20<br>
> > shipping charge for about 1.5 oz. in products.<br>
<br>
> Yeah, that's insanity. What do they do, ship them each in their own box?<br>
<br>
> I could understand computing shipping on weight, or a flat fee plus 5¢<br>
> each item or something as a way of recouping costs of "picking", but<br>
> that's insane.<br>
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</div>Yeah, I just picked up some 32GB Class 10s up at Amazon.com that weren't<br>
that much more expensive and free shipping. Personally, I think the<br>
whole shipping angle is a scam to make you think you're getting<br>
something cheaper when you're really not.<br>
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> --- Mike<br>
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