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john2189

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I bought a used book from walmart.com. for $5.73 free shipping. How do they do that? The shipping has to be more than $5
 
A lot of major retailers have their own/in house postal center where the item is weighed, postage applied, then shipped. USPS gives the retailer a large discount for providing the space and wages for the retailer's emplyees.
 
Like Amazon, Walmart now provides a venue for third party vendors to sell their wares. I suspect your used book seller is one of these.
 
Got places like this to thank for high price of personal shipping. Shippers give them rock bottom prices and high volume. So they make it up with us
 
Dont forget that us postal has (had) a special rate for books, etc.

It is called media mail and had a lower rate!

Keep in mind if you buy a owners manual, brochure, etc!
 
When I bought my new trailer a couple of years ago, I was adding embedded D rings. I needed 25 to finish the job. I went on line and the best price I found was packages of four for $18.95 at several different vendors. Wal-Mart was one of those vendors, so I ordered seven packs with free shipping. About a week later Wal-Mart sent an email saying it was canceling my order because their supplier never gave them a shipping date. I then went on line to another vendor who offered the same price, also with free shipping. About a week passed and Fed-Ex arrived one morning with my order. That afternoon Fed-Ex was back with another package. The second package was my “canceled” Wal-Mart order.

I immediately replied to Wal-Mart’s earlier e-mail and told them to come get their shipment since they told me it was supposed to be canceled. They never did reply to me, so I kept watch on my credit card statements. I was never charged for the Wal-Mart order and they never asked for it back.
 
I ordered a chainsaw carb kit from Amazon with free shipping. They sent me the wrong one. I returned it not thinking that the seller would not pay my shipping cost. It would have been cheaper just to have kept it. $6.00 lesson for me.
 
Many years ago, my wife bought an ironing board. It got damaged in shipping. The seller said they would send another one and also send a return shipping label for the damaged one. The replacement item showed up in a reasonable time. The shipping label never did. I no longer recall whether we sent the seller a reminder about the label or not. I assumed that they chose to save the shipping cost to get something back that they would just need to dispose of.

The ironing board had a metal rack for parking a hot iron that hung off the back end. The damage was that rack, badly bent. Eventually I straightened it enough to be usable.
 
Riembursing return postage. Reference my previous post: Ebay Postal Address. My complaint to South Carolina Consumer Affairs will be mailed tomorrow morning. Even if I get the planer blades, or 1/2 my purchase price back, or nothing I still lose money due to the cost of the complaint letter.
Getting even and then some.
 
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