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Originally Posted by mugwump
Yikes. I actually put the text together a while back and just got around to posting it (I've got trunking-scanner and comms ones in the queue that need cleanup and posting, too.) I'll check, but I didn't pay any $13.
Shipping ripoffs are real pet peeve of mine. They must have 60" plasmas in their personal yurts.
ETA: They say they had to raise shipping to pass through increased charges due to the box size needed for the filter plus padding (the filter is very brittle). He knows they're losing sales, but won't budge. The filter is about the size of a roll of toilet paper; seems fishy but then who knows...
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Well, it looked so neat that I bought the "special packaging" story and ordered one. $19.95 of product in $13 shipping.
The box is plain cardboard, approx. 10"x10"x7.5" deep. Weight less than 3 pounds. Packaging consisted of roughly 8 feet of crumpled brown paper, with the sock and spigot tossed in. The filter itself was in bubble wrap in a white cardboard box 4"x4"x5.5" packed in the aforementioned brown paper. Sent UPS Ground service.
If it cost $13 to pack and ship, they must have taken it unboxed to the most expensive Mail Boxes Etc. in town and waited with a big "Screw Me" sign.
Definitely a shipping rip-off.
No markings on any of the components, but I strongly suspect that the filter and spigot are COTs purchased in bulk in the plain commerical wrapping.
Not sure about the cost of brown paper or cardboard boxes, but the shipping itself was probably less than $7.
TR