[ale] [OT] Passing along a good deal on SD/Micro SD cards

[Jim Kinney]

It's like the airline tickets SWMBO found. REALLY low price but fee for
carry on, fee for boarding pass, fee for, well, everything.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:08 -0400, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> > On 04/27/2012 11:59 AM, arxaaron wrote:
> > > The +$X.XX shipping noted on the item pages is PER ITEM.
> > > I figured to get a few of these but bailed when I saw a $20
> > > shipping charge for about 1.5 oz. in products.
>
> > Yeah, that's insanity.  What do they do, ship them each in their own box?
>
> > I could understand computing shipping on weight, or a flat fee plus 5¢
> > each item or something as a way of recouping costs of "picking", but
> > that's insane.
>
> Yeah, I just picked up some 32GB Class 10s up at Amazon.com that weren't
> that much more expensive and free shipping.  Personally, I think the
> whole shipping angle is a scam to make you think you're getting
> something cheaper when you're really not.
>
> >       --- Mike
>
>
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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