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Re: US TRU shipping prices
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:33:16 GMT
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Actually, Zany Brainy is higher. They charge the $3.00 base fee, plus $1.50
per each "small" item. I found this out by trying to order 100 Oasis Ambush
sets when they were on sale. The sets would have cost me $400. Shipping
would have cost me $153.
As one can imagine, I did not place this order. I sent them a nasty gram
about their ridiculous shipping charges instead, which I still haven't
gotten a reply to. I did, however, get pointed to a coupon code for free
shipping and placed the order. Of course, I only got 33 out of the 100 they
let me order, but that is a whole other story.
On a similar note, KB Kids.com also charges a $3.00 base fee plus $1.50 per
item. But they seem to have an upper threshold on shipping charges. A
recent order for 30 sets would have yielded a shipping charge of $48 using
the above method, but the site only calculated the shipping as $27. A more
sensible charge, in my opinion.
TRU doesn't seem to do this though.
Troy
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:G0o9Fp.H80@lugnet.com...
> Is it just me or are these prices kind of steep? Does anyone know an • e-tailer
> of any size that charges higher ones?
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> To me, these prices make Pitsco shipping start to look reasonable (it's • not,
> but you get the idea)
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> http://www89.toysrus.com/handler.cfm?
> sn=pg_zoom&gid=ID689&int_product_id=ID22032#
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> (unwrap it, then click on "click here" to review our shipping prices. They
> make it hard to set up a link to the page. Gee I wonder why? :-)
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> I dunno if BrickWise(tm) could somehow track how onerous shipping charges
> are... it DEFINITELY is a factor, especially if the per item charge is
> substantial so that adding items doesn't help bring the shipping down to a
> reasonable per unit level.
>
> ++Lar
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