Shipping Costs, Etc.

[NW Mailing List]

Has anyone considered going away from the current system of basing 
shipping cost on order price amount, to number of items ordered? with 
the current system I could order 1 book and have to pay 12.90 for 
shipping when in reality it may only cost 10 bucks. more so I could buy 
two of the coffee table books (as I call them) that could be shipped in 
1 flat rate box for 15 dollars but end up paying close to 25 dollars for 
shipping. I for one have always felt the current system of basing 
shipping on price was flawed.

As someone has previously mentioned many places have a place for you to 
put in your zip code to have postage calculated, why hasn't NWHS done 
this? Is it we are so stubborn in the fact we want it all in house and 
on our own website that we refuse to think outside the box? There are a 
lot of small places that I purchase from, how do they do it? More then 
anything else they have a 'yahoo' store. it takes care of payment and 
shipping calculations. Have we not even looked in that?

I'm going to be very frank when I say this, but a lot of the excuses 
I've see so far in this thread strike me as a 'stubborn, inside the box, 
won't considering anything new because its always been this way' way of 
thinking.

Those are my thoughts, and before anyone tries to pull the "Why don't 
you run for BoD?" comment on me, its quite simple I live half way across 
the country now otherwise I would.

Nathan

On 11/3/2015 13:23, NW Mailing List wrote:
> On 11/3/2015 11:01 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> List,
>>
>> As Alex has pointed out there are other factors that come into 
>> shipping that buyers do not generally see or care about.
>>
>> If the Commissary makes a profit on shipping- that is a good thing. 
>> It's not about breaking even. The time and materials spent to package 
>> an item are not free.
>>
>> Anyone who has done any amount of shipping, let's say on eBay as I 
>> have done for 15 years would know that you can make a small profit on 
>> shipping. At the same time- as Alex said- having the customer pay the 
>> exact amount for shipping would be highly tedious.
>>
>> If this was Amazon or some other vendor, I might complain about 
>> shipping costs- but for the NWHS, I don't, it's a small organization 
>> trying to make ends meet.
>>
>> Jeff Lisowski
>>
>> -- 
>> "Sic Semper Tyrannis!"
>>
> Well Jeff,
>     It could be all in the way we cook the books.
> We could give everything away for free and just charge flat shipping 
> rates of $49.99, $99.99, $149.99, etc. depending on the amount of free 
> gifts that are requested.
>
> Jimmy Lisle
>
>
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