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Revelations private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I checked my invoice and it's costing $41 for fedex ground. Total insurance is $1100. Is this typical of S&H costs? Seems rather high to me for 7 books. | ||
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| I'm paying $28 for 3 books. | ||
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| Going by my experience with comparing shipping costs between here and the US that doesn't sound like it would be out of the realm of possibility. I have 13 books out at CBCS and the return shipping is 86 or 88.60 and generally deliveries within the US are half or more the cost of shipping to Canada. It also often (here it always) costs more to ship via a courier company than the postal system. The bulk of that shipping cost will be the insurance costs. I may be completely off base with this though. |
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| Ah ok. Thanks guys. I guess the shipping rate is normal for CBCS then. | ||
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| yah, I cry a bit when I read someone annoyed about shipping costs within US. | ||
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| It's normal, you get what you pay for, they come well packed in a box big enough that damage is almost impossible. | ||
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| did u all know that u can ship a package from china to the usa at 1 10th the cost as u can for florda to new York city our postal service has gone nuts along with some thing in this country sorry I look at things when it cost us out of pocket and the Chinese get away with our money again |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DarthLego I giggled when I saw this because "You get what you pay for" is at the top of my list of "Obvious and Insane Lies that People Insist on Believing." The truth is, you get what you get! Paying more only guarantees that you paid more. It does not guarantee that you get more or that you get the best. There are certainly many instances in life and commerce where the most expensive thing is no where near "the best", and something much less expensive performs just as well and in MANY cases performs better.(See Consumer Reports magazine.) "Price" has NOTHING to do with "quality." But unfortunately marketers have brainwashed consumers into thinking otherwise. And for some reason despite all the evidence to the contrary, people keep falling for it. Now I have to get back to my job in advertising of convincing people to pay more than they should for all manner of frivolous things they don't even need. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by zab47 And shipping within the USA is significantly cheaper than shipping within Canada. Geography, population, and transport costs all factor in. In Canada, we have a small population spread over a huge geographical distance and there are quite a few areas that are costly to get to but they have to get there. The continental US has lots of people over a smaller Geographical area and most are located in larger centers with well established transport routes. The sheer volume of items moved pushes the operating cost up and that is passed on to the customer. China does a ton of trade with the US so they likely just use the system in place and despite the volume the costs are lower because they likely have set transport time and routes. In this case volume and geography work to keep cost fairly predictable. Now I am fairly certain that the cost to send something via the post office, in both Canada and the US, is significantly cheaper for your non-business type of person than sending something via a courier like Fedex. The problem comes in that you will likely be very restricted in insurance limits. Canada post tops insurance at $1000. Though it cost me more to send my books to CBCS via Fedex I was not limited by the insurance. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by TruckJohnson I disagree with this statement. Price can certainly be affected by quality. Higher quality parts in a race car will certainly reflect in the price. You don't get titanium rods or forged inconel pistons for cheap. Sony tv's have always been just a bit more expensive than other brands like magnavox, but sony's picture quality is far superior. The quality control of a product as well as the higher quality parts means you pay more. I could go on and on, but there is a relationship between the two, IF the companies selling the product are honest. Sure, there are instances when a tool from harbor freight will work as well as a snap-on tool, but behind the cost of snap-on, you know that you can depend on it's quality to not fail when you need it the most. Even things like pry bars from harbor freight. While they are ok, they are flimsy. My craftsman prybar does not bend near as much as a harbor freight when put under the same load. |
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say CBCS has a corporate FedEx account so they get a pretty good rate for ground shipping. A lot better then if you go into a FedEx and try to ship the exact same thing back to them. My wife has access to a corporate account and it saves me a ton when shipping out bulk stuff. With the prices they quote for ship back cost I would say that has a small fee build in for supplies and handling. If I'm wrong please come flame me  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by JWKyle It would be better but not quite as much as you may think or not as much as the discount SHOULD BE. The cost CBCS is charging to return my books is not very different from what would have cost if I could have sent the books to them Fedex ground (for some reason I could not send via ground so it cost me double). |
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| What I meant by what I said is, part of the reason the shipping is high is because FedEX charges more the bigger the box size is, CBCS uses big boxes that safely protect our new slabs and insure as best to their ability that they arive safe. So yes, you get what you pay for, you get a bigger box. | ||
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| Hi Oxbladder, US isn't a "small geographic area". It's third largest after Russia and Canada. Land size isn't a factor but the population difference definitely is. If you consider virtually no one lives in the northern half of Canada or Russia because it isn't comfortably livable then US's livable land is actually largest. | ||
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| I am talking relative to population. While the population of the US has plenty of space to move they are not as spread out as us Canucks. Half our population is West Coast and Southern Ontario/Quebec the rest are spread over hell's half acre. | ||
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| Do you get to determine the shipping method or do they just charge you for shipping after the comic is graded? | ||
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DarthLego private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Supermn76 there are different shipping options to choose from when you submit your invoice. | ||
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| Thank you! Very new to getting my collection graded. Trying to get all my ducks in a row! | ||
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Here is the current CBCS shipping rate chart. |
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zab47 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| the big thing I hated I was not notified by e that they had shipped my comics so I waited and waited then they were there no notice at all pissed me off thankGod not stolen | ||
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| FedEx runs the show in some cases. I am waiting on 8 moderns to Canada for $101 US dollars ($130 Cdn) where only a month prior 21 moderns only cost me $81 US dollars. I'm at the whim of FedEx. Basically went from $4 per book to $12+ per... To me that's a jip. | ||
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| china to the usa is cheaper check it out I don't know why they love to hit americans so hard me I enjoy my hobby yet at times they put items out of my reach | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Cwausti What was your insured value? The higher the insurance the higher the fee. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by zab47 Shipping from China to the US and Canada is cheap because the volume and the number of transport routes/couriers and the cost are low. Shipping within both the US an Canada cost a lot more because of volume and much higher costs.If you think it costs a lot to ship within the US try living in Canada! |
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