zerohourhero wrote:the most I see for basic shipping anywhere the stuff here sells is free - $6.
Having difficulty making sense of what this means -- truly.
Anyway: **IF** someone is going to buy a fiver elsewhere -- no matter what -- for $72, with $5 shipping, it makes sense for them to pay **UP TO** $77 here with free (or basically negligible, 50 cents) shipping, particularly when they're ordering other items.
There is also the value of time and convenience to be experienced. Placing a whole separate order on a whole separate site and having to track a whole separate shipment is a pain in the ass. Bundling alone may well be worth $1 or $2, maybe even $3, to busy people and/or volume buyers. It makes economic sense to do so.
The spirit of this thread always seemed to be the idiots who would pay $45 for a fiver that sells for $32 elsewhere -- and it does happen, as evidenced in the thread itself.
Someone who pays up to a couple of bucks over retail -- who cares. It's a buck or two and there's decent reasons for some people to do so. Hence: "Yawn."