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Originally Posted by
dennis thompson
I know I'm going to be seen as an old grouch and a cheapskate, I won't argue with that, but It drives me nuts when I order $16 worth of stuff from Lee Valley or anybody else,and the shipping is $8 or half the cost of the items I purchased.:(
Am I alone here?:confused:
You're not alone. Try living in Alaska, where our own country often treats us like another country entirely. I've actually had CS reps tell me, "We don't ship outside the United States." I usually hold my smaller wish list items at Woodcraft and Rockler until a visit to Seattle. The former isn't so bad on shipping but the latter charges pretty dearly. I haven't placed an order with Lee Valley since the website overhaul but it used to be that it couldn't compute my shipping charges in the shopping cart. They'd promptly e-mail me afterward with shipping options which weren't really all that bad considering distance and borders.
Amazon Prime usually works out pretty well but it's a real mixed bag. I can sometimes shop directly with the manufacturer/retailer, pay shipping and get the product cheaper and/or quicker than Prime. Other times, I'm greeted with angry red text in the item listing:
This item cannot be shipped to
your selected delivery location.
Please choose a different delivery
location.
Shipping for non-Prime items can vary from free, to reasonable, to the sublimely ridiculous: