For the people really interested in paying high shipping costs for an item, then click a checkbox to enable searching these. Or, alternatively, make the default search filter remove listings with unnecessarily high shipping fees. If shipping costs exceed the price by more than 1x the item’s price, the listing should be refused. I firmly believe that to be any kind of a deal, the shipping fee should be equal to or lower than the cost of item being listed. Maybe there are some people out there desperate enough to pay that high a cost for shipping, but I’m not one of them. When it gets to 3x the cost of the item’s price, it’s way too high and a waste of a listing. It would be a simple matter for these sites to decline to list items whose shipping fee exceeds 1x the cost of the item. There is no reason to force would-be buyers to weed through useless listings like these to find someone who’s willing to offer a much more reasonable shipping fee. It’s time that Amazon, eBay and Etsy stopped these listings. But, who in their right mind would pay $18 to ship an item that costs $5.99 or less? Not me. Yes, I realize that FedEx and UPS and even the USPS (to an extent) aren’t always inexpensive for shipping. I don’t know what goes into that $18 cost, but many times I see the item is shipping within the US to a US address. What ridiculousness is this? Why am I expected to pay 3x the price of the item in shipping fees? No, I just won’t do that.
While I can find the item I want at $5.99, I see that the shipping fee is $18.00 (or sometimes higher). I’ve finally decided to rant about this problem. I’ve seen this problem on and off for many different items over the years. I’ll skip mentioning this specific item because it’s not really relevant to the article. The problem wasn’t the price for the item, but it was in the shipping costs. I even found the same item on Etsy with this very same listing problem. In fact, I found the item at a very reasonable price. I began searching for a specific item and I actually found it. Sometimes I can find item prices at substantially reduced prices from Amazon. I go there because I typically expect to find reasonable prices on most things. Today is the day I decided to do a little shopping and hopefully find a bargain online.
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