@JonT STOP wasting your money on me!
0@JonT : Stop wasting your money on me. It makes me feel a little guilty. Just a little though. I tend to often pull the trigger on an additional 2 or 3 of whatever you are selling, but after purchasing a quantity of 1. As a VMP since the beginning, you are loosing a lot of money in shipping with me when I do this, because the orders go out separately for each order placed, causing the items to ship independently, at a higher cost to Meh. It seems there should be a simple program that could be coded to match orders from the same VMP buyer for a given day, so the multiple orders for the up-to-three items can be shipped together. Take the light string sale. I think I placed an new order at least 4 times through the day (damn you and your meh lights. WTF am I going to do with $200 worth of light strings?? Seriously. I have no clue.). That will be 4 different packages you are paying shipping on, instead of one. I imagine this happens a lot. It seems like there would be a simple fix for this, equating to a meh-ish savings for Meh. Money for an extra fuku for me. Because I really wanted one today. Non sequitur: Have you seen the Martian yet? 'effing good movie!
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He doesn't work at meh anymore. They couldn't afford to keep him because of the loss they took shipping stuff to you.
1st sentence is true. 2nd is not.
@PilotJim What @MrMark said is all true.
@MEHcus A fopaux on my part? I'll clean out my desk.
@MEHcus Wait..but he can still be blamed though, right?
@PilotJim duh
@PilotJim Better to blame the goat. It's all @jaremelz fault.
@PilotJim What @ceagee said, although I'm just as confused as you are.
I was really scared at first that I was somehow paying for other people's meh orders.
@JonT Better check your credit card statements closely this month.
@JonT Let me make sure that isn't the case. For confirmation, what is your credit card number and 3 digit code on the back of your card?
@JonT Is that why the credit card on my order didn't look correct... I said I'll look at it later... ;)
@PilotJim Ooh, a talking moose wants my credit card number, that's only fair.
@pilotJim you can make one of these:
(built out of my local hackerspace with admittedly fancier strings of lights).
@MrGlass That is freaking cool!
To add to that, I received 3 shipments from meh yesterday. If different things are shipping at the same time combine them. I would be fine waiting a couple extra days. Just a thought.
Here's the piece some of you are missing if they combined orders: what meh would save in shipping costs, they would spend + on labor and software changes to make that kind of "smart" shipping happen.
It seems counter-intuitive, if you only look at shipping costs, but there is much more involved. Packing one product at a time is fast - and the chance for mistakes is lower.
Having the software (or a human) check orders to the same person/address and then having a picker go find everything to put it in a box is not cheaper on a small scale than having all of the orders/labels up with "put 1/2/3 of today's shipment in a box."
@Thumperchick You have a point there...but that doesn't apply to multiple orders of the same product. I order three flashlights, but in two different orders. Shipping independently, the cost is much greater than one shipment, and matching orders for the same day/product shouldn't require much software change. But then again...I know zip about shipping, so I may be way off there.
@PilotJim It still applies - your orders are not next to each other on the packing line. They would still need the same software/labor changes to do what you're talking about.
@Thumperchick you just don't want to hear complaints when more mistakes happen... like when we got 1 IP camera instead of 2 lights... Now if we had only gotten 2 IP cameras... I don't think anyone would have been complaining... ;)
@sohmageek haha! True. I got 3 of those...ended up keeping and paying for them. I use one on the front porch to scare off anyone that tries to take a meh package left for me.
@Thumperchick That makes sense.
@Thumperchick Are orders released to the shipping department as they are placed? Or at the end of the day?
@Thumperchick On the contrary, this only applies if orders are being fulfilled in real time throughout the day. If every item listed wasn't packed and shipped until the following day, during an overnight batch the system could consolidate orders by user so the packing slips would include the multiple orders. The issue is obviously the delay in picking/packing/shipping to the day after each item. If this is how it's normally done then the extra expenses in software mods now would eventually pay off.
@MrMark that I don't know.