Outrageous shipping fee from Mancini Racing

66 Sat said

As much as it sounds like you got shafted, the shipping is NOT comparable to getting an online quote. The whole process of buying a box, buying the soft padding that goes inside (unless it's shredded paper), getting the labels printed, potentially driving to the post office (unless it's collected from their place of business), this all takes time and money.
Whenever I've sold anything personally the shipping has been the most time consuming part of the whole exercise. It's a pain in the balls.

How do their prices compare when you look at item cost and shipping together? Are they $38 more?

Anyone who advertises "Free Shipping" or low shipping prices usually has buried the cost in the item itself.

There's nothing for free, and everyone has to make money, that's why they are in business.

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I hear what your saying but that isn't the case for many of us. I just sold 3 high dollar distributors for a song and only charged the minimum amount for shipping. I'm saying when there are companies like Pirateship.com out there, there is no reason to double up shipping costs. Mancini gets their parts at a wholesaler's cost and sells them at retail. The difference should more than cover their warehouse, employee salaries, shipping supplies and such that they don't have to gouge you on a blind shipping charge. If you call Summit, they will tell you what that part's shipping weight is. They know your order, what size box it is going in and they have contracts with these different shipping companies (Pirateship only does UPS or the postal service). My argument is, paying shipping is expected, paying double for the same service I can show only costs half what I'm being charged is a poor business practice. The argument isn't with the salesman or the order packer - it's with the fat cat CEOs and other 'non-essential' workers.