[Towertalk] Buying nuts and bolts [was "Mosley"]

[Jim White]

Our Champion is right...it si only not obvious anymore because of
terminology...

It used to be know as a minimum order charge but that is no longer
politically correct so any purchase form just about any vendor these days
has a line for freight which includes the peanuts, the wrapping tape, the
box, the address label, the time spent to process yur order and oh yess -
the freight!

K4OJ


----- Original Message -----
From: <K7LXC@aol.com>
To: <w2up@mindspring.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Buying nuts and bolts [was "Mosley"]


> 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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