09-13-2009, 05:00 AM
Mike: My point is, shop carefully but widen your scope. Most items can be shipped from anywhere in the world at fairly reasonable rates and in a timely manner.
This is sometimes true, but way too often, I have found that the company selling the product I want to buy charges a 2x-5x multiple of the product price to ship it! I try to get them to use USPS parcel post or UPS 'ground' but they are 'unable to accommodate' me--"We just don't do that". I have resorted to imposing upon friends to receive my package and send it on to me using parcel post.
Anyone know of a way to work around the 'killer shipping cost' issue?
-dwajs
This is sometimes true, but way too often, I have found that the company selling the product I want to buy charges a 2x-5x multiple of the product price to ship it! I try to get them to use USPS parcel post or UPS 'ground' but they are 'unable to accommodate' me--"We just don't do that". I have resorted to imposing upon friends to receive my package and send it on to me using parcel post.
Anyone know of a way to work around the 'killer shipping cost' issue?
-dwajs
-dwajs