$10 Shipping!
0$10 for shipping. Longtime customer here who checks everyday to see what’s offered and who buys from time to time. $10 for shipping is absolutely too much for a number of reasons. One being, sometimes your daily Meh offering is less than $10. I will never pay a shipping amount that cost almost what the product cost. Not gonna happen! I know you are not Amazon but I think this amount for shipping is too much and the cost of membership ain’t much better! I remember $5 membership was not that long ago. I’m disappointed. What happened?
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Yeah, we’ve been talking about this on other threads. I think the postage thing is a threat to meh.com’s business model. We could probably go back in time and see their sales dip because the postage discourages impulse purchases. Meh may need to dump or bundle the small crap to get the minimum price to $20 or more.
/showme mediocrebot struggling with the mathematics of postage.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “mediocrebot struggling with the mathematics of postage.”
I have no horse in this race (I don’t get paid more or less based on our sales), but I’m sure you’ll find my response biased. Regardless, have you tried to send anything in the mail recently? At least 9 out of 10 items on Meh will cost you more than $10 to ship. Sure, we have bulk shipping and stuff, but it’s not like we increased the shipping cost to make more on items…it’s just to TRY to make the same amount we used to. Time goes by, prices go up. Not something we can control if we want to stay in business. And it’s not like people run companies with the goal of “stay in business.” I mean, anyone who runs a business knows the one reason you do it is to make money, so “break even” isn’t really viable as a model. Just my two cents, for what they’re worth.
@ExtraMedium true. Even with Pirate ship, I’ve spent at least $50 on shipping costs for the various exchange packages I’ve sent in the last few weeks. Everything has gone up.
@ExtraMedium @ironcheftoni I concur. It’s one reason I do more local sales. I have no clue how some people are making money whether Etsy or eBay or whatever when they offer free shipping. Granted most of the things I make are not super light unless they’re magnets or earrings. But the box I recently sent out weighed around 10pounds and cost twice as much to send as some corporate boxes I made for a firm just over a year ago. Those boxes were larger and weighed 15 pounds. So yeah. Shipping is a factor. Amazon has kind of ruined people on the shipping front.
I get it. I can’t compare Amazon’s free shipping model to Meh’s even though Meh’s is cheaper. I don’t do as much ordering as I used to because I have Meh stuff in my closet that I ordered that I never used, no offense to Meh. I still love to be surprised by the daily offers and will definitely order again if I see something I want.