Shipping Costs, Etc.

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As I have said before that we are going to fix it  thanks it is not a
problem of being stubborn but we are getting people in place to work on the
problem. .. Dean Taylor
On Nov 4, 2015 6:16 AM, "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> 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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