Comment by morcheeba
3 years ago
I'll second that. I ordered an 8-foot-long aluminum bar for $25, which, at the time, was too long to ship with traditional shippers. So, a semi trailer showed up at my door. Shipping cost $8.
3 years ago
I'll second that. I ordered an 8-foot-long aluminum bar for $25, which, at the time, was too long to ship with traditional shippers. So, a semi trailer showed up at my door. Shipping cost $8.
My experience around their shipping was the opposite— surprise outrageous fee to get fedex to deliver a few feet of PVC. This was back before they showed you shipping prices up front.
Yeah their checkout experience used to be horrible. Shipping costs were never displayed until the order shipped and it was often 10x the item price.
As soon as I saw the title of this post, I thought "best e-commerce site? they don't even show you the shipping price until the item has been sent, and the shipping prices are insane!"
I wrote them off long ago due to that - guess it's time to give them another try. Thanks for the heads up!
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How can they make money doing that?
Next time he’ll buy $20 worth of bolts and pay $80.
Where else can I buy bolts and KNOW they are the right bolt and material?
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What's a good place for well priced bolts if I'm not worried about next day shipping but need them to not be made of pot metal?
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And thats ok.
Most orders pay full cost of shipping. This was an atypical experience.
No idea. I talked with the truck driver, and he said we was being paid way more than $8 for the delivery. I used my company account, so I guess they're willing to take a loss on some orders and make it up on others.
Might I ask what for?
I don't know the GP's reason, but I also orderd long aluminum profiles for LED installations (it's needed for heat dissipation, and also helped with mounting in my case).
I ordered a bunch of 8ft lengths of aluminum 80/20 extrusion for framing the inside of a camper a year or two ago.
8' is a standard length for metal bar. OP might just have been buying their normal increment.
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