Roger Taylor wrote:
Another common scam, related to this, on internet sales:
Online retailers will hide their "shipping" costs and offer things at
outrageously low prices, pre-shipping, so when you use a price finder such
as shopzilla or priceline, their company comes out on top. Then they gig you
*after* you have made an order. When shopping for a shower radio, all the
online price offers were about 70 bucks for a particular model on Sony. A NY
store offered same at 50 bucks, and of course I bit on it. Somehow they had
the shipping costs disguised from the online invoice, so after I rec'd VISA
bill, there was a hidden 22 dollar shipping cost, making the item 70
dollars, more expensive than all other offers, who had either cheap or free
shipping. Shipping for that item, at most, should have been 5-6 dollars.
Live and Learn!

CAVEAT EMPTOR! Shipping AND handling/postage AND packaging.
Apparently these places use real high quality, space-age cardboard
boxes and the "handlers/packers" earn about $45/hour.

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