In a message dated 4/24/02 9:51:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
w2up@mindspring.com writes:
> Just to warn people, another big ripoff is Kenwood Parts, aka East
> Coast Transistor, located on Long Island.
>
> I ordered a small part ($6.00) for a Kenwood VHF radio. They
> charged me an additional $6.50 for shipping in a small box with 57
> cents postage on it.
THIS IS NOT A RIP-OFF. The only cost you see is the postage. If you're
not in the business of filling orders and sending stuff out, you don't really
know what the REAL costs are. For starters, you have to buy a box or envelope
so they're not free.
The BIG hit is in the labor in writing it all up, getting a credit card
approval, picking the items, wrapping them up, then addressing and putting
postage on it. I can tell you with some authority that it might take 15
minutes to do all that. That's why there's "shipping and handling."
For every shipping charge where I break-even or even make a little extra
(let me emphasize LITTLE extra), I lose money on the next one or two orders.
I have fixed-cost shipping for dollar amounts so it's not an exact science OR
a money maker.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
Champion Radio Products
<A HREF="http://www.championradio.com";>www.championradio.com</A>
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