Comment by ghostly_s

I lost the thread of his argument when he brought up the shipping expense:

> I pay anywhere from US $60 to US $200 to ship one dollar chips that people everywhere else get free shipping on

then follows with:

> the difference between a ten cent part and a one dollar part is not a rounding error and it is not a detail you get to wave past on the way to the interesting discussion about encodings.

When shipping is so expensive, doesn't the difference between $1 and $.10 unit cost become less relevant?