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Originally Posted by rainman
it's not just shipping you are paying for from Sadoun it is shipping and handling his employee's like to be paid to. the places that does this for free is probally adding it into the cost of the merchandise nothing is free.LOL  |
This comment is not aimed at Sadoun, but in general at all dealers who incorporate handling charges with their shipping.
As far as I'm concerned, handling should be included in the price of the product, and I think that including it with shipping is just not right. I know that most dealers do this to one extent or another, but I think it's just a ploy to make people think they are getting a good deal on a product only to find out that they are paying more via this handling fee. I realize Sadoun and other dealers have to pay their employees, but the employees that pack the mail orders are no different from employees who deal with the over the counter customers, or who receive the inventory, or stock the shelves, or do the book-keeping. All those costs should be included in the price of the item.
How would you feel if you went to a grocery store, and after they rung up your order, they added $15 for a shelf stocking and cashier fee? I know that the store has to pay the cashier, but that cost should be part of the cost of what you buy, just like handling should be part of the cost of mail order items.
BTW, the charges that annoy me the MOST are when you order some tiny item, and get charged $3 for shipping/handling, and if you order 2 or 3 of the items, you pay the $3 fee for each item, when you KNOW that it doesn't cost any more to ship 3 items than it does to ship one item.
Anyway, I'd much rather pay more for the item, and pay exactly what the shipping charge is, rather than have the feeling that I have been cheated by excess handling charges.
Like I said, this rant wasn't aimed at Sadoun, as I have no idea of to what extent they add handling. This is just my opinion of "handling charges".