Herbert Graf wrote:

> Because the s/h charge is padding their profit margin, something s/h is
> NOT presented as doing. s/h should cover s/h, it's not called s/h/profit

Now why is this? With the same right someone could say that the item price
should cover only the item cost (otherwise it should be called
item/profit), and the handling is where they should make their profit
(because it's where they add value to the product), and anything else is
dishonest.

Just because most traditional stores do it one way doesn't mean that other
ways are dishonest.

You yourself said (in another message) that you only care about the final
price, and don't care about /how/ it got calculated. Which I wholeheartedly
agree with.


(Of course I agree that it is very desirable to know the final price
online. I almost never shop with companies that don't show their final
price, so maybe that's why I don't have many complaints here. But that's a
different question.)

Gerhard

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