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Burns and McCoy

Burns and McCoy

How the heck are some of you able to get shipping down to the $5 range?
How are you getting prices of $9.99 for 10lbs or less?
 
Any advice or help with this would be amazing . . . .
 
I am pulling my hair out and going far more grey the last couple days than I should be, but I cannot figure it out for the life of me. 
 
Chalk it up to newbie status and the fact that I work my regular job 60 hours a week and put in another 40 or so doing this.
 
 
 
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I just ordered about 40 pounds of spices and chiles, shipping was $5.  I know some merchants have some Insider pricing or something or as HEAT says, they just eat the difference.
 
Large bottles are hard to deal with.  I have several sauces in 10-12oz bottles.  They don't fit into SFRB, the nBBQ sauce weighs over 19 oz just by itself!  I don't sell a whole lot of single bottles because its about $9 shipping for a $7 bottle.  About the only way that works is for customers to order at least 4 bottles, then it can go in a MFRB. 
 
For your mixes, I just tried to fit a 750ml bottle into a MFRB and it's a tight fit.  It woudl definitely fit good in a LFRB, but then you're looking at $17 shipping, and depending on what they ordered, theyn would probably need to order 5-6 items to make it worthwhile.
 
 
For now, I concentrate sauce sales locally and ship Pure Evil all over.  It's lightweight enough that First Class shipping is <$3.  I can work that into the price so for the customer it's Free Shipping.
 
Not much of an answer, other than I feel Your Pain!
 
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grantmichaels said:
I was about to say, $5 shipping typically means there's padding in the item prices ...
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I don't know if you'd call it "padding" - I see it as "subsidizing" shipping.

If I charge $6.50 for a bottle of sauce and $5.50 for shipping customers are ok with it.

But if I charged $5.50 for a bottle and $6.50 fr shipping people would flip, even though that's closer to reality.

I do try to encourage larger orders so people get a better value on shipping.
 
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There's legalities when it comes to that stuff too like you can't offer free shipping for two weeks but jack up the prices for those weeks to cover it, that's a scam, and more of "padding" so I can see why you have to be careful with words. There was a big Sears lawsuit, many years ago, where they had big sales, but incrementally marked the prices up until sale date, and the sale was the normal price lol.
 
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He does tend to be quite lightning fast
 
grantmichaels said:
 
Feel free to improve my word choice as you see fit ...

There's 14k+ examples of my flying loose w/ the language =)
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Well when I do my 3 hot sauces for the price of 2 and free shipping for the whole month of December there will be no "padding" or "subsidizing" just a good month of deals really.
The Hot Pepper said:
There's legalities when it comes to that stuff too like you can't offer free shipping for two weeks but jack up the prices for those weeks to cover it, that's a scam, and more of "padding" so I can see why you have to be careful with words. There was a big Sears lawsuit, many years ago, where they had big sales, but incrementally marked the prices up until sale date, and the sale was the normal price lol.
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Burns and McCoy said:
He does tend to be quite lightning fast
 

Well when I do my 3 hot sauces for the price of 2 and free shipping for the whole month of December there will be no "padding" or "subsidizing" just a good month of deals really.
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Right - that's the consumer expectation.

I've got my 4-pack gift boxes at $25.99 down from $35.99 shipped price.

And I was careful to display "original price" so people know that I didn't jack it up before the sale, or "pad" it.

That's why I was suggesting the correction to Grant - "padding" is a dishonest tactic and I wouldn't want anyone unfairly labelled as such.
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QFS - quoted for snark ...
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Hmm - wasn't trying to be snarky. Perhaps we have different definitions there too.
juanitos said:
the padded envelope is 5$ still and it can fit a decent sized item( 8x11 more or less), just put lots of packing material in there ofc
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The USPS flat-rate priority padded envelope $6.10 now.

I literally just got home from shipping 43 of them.
I can fit up to 5 bottles in one, though 4 is safer in terms of avoiding breakage.
 
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