Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Save on Shipping Costs

We know how much our customers hate high shipping costs, and we do too.  Unfortunately, UPS raises prices about 5% every year and we have lowered our product prices, so shipping costs relative to product costs keep increasing.  The UPS trucks use a lot of gas and prices at the pump topping $4.00 per gallon do not help.

Our web site connects with the UPS web site in real time to calculate shipping costs for orders. However, we have now put Freight Allowances into the shipping costs (UPS Ground 48 states only) on orders to reduce costs for our customers as follows:

Orders over $200 have shipping costs reduced by $6.00.
Orders over $300 have shipping costs reduced by $15.00
Orders over $400 have shipping costs reduced by $28.00

These discounts are calculated by the web site and built into the shipping cost at checkout. They are not calculated later.  What you see is what you pay.

Right now prepaid orders over $500 have the free shipping special.

We hope this helps.  Lower gas prices would help even more.

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