On Jan 7, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:

> How can you convince me that the regular practice of HIDING
> the S/H charge for an order until AFTER the order has already
> been submitted is fair and reasonable?
>
How about the fact that in the general case, a company won't know
exactly what the shipping charges are until the order is actually
packed into a shipping box and weighed?

Yeah, this doesn't at all apply to the "single item" example that
you're complaining about, but it certainly applies to electronics
parts like we were talking about originally.

BillW

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