The price shown on our site is the price for the item only, shipping is not included in the calculations (you can see our reasoning for this here).
We realize there are times when it can be helpful to account for shipping when looking at the prices so we have implemented a feature that lets you add the shipping costs to the prices.
The "Used Price" increases by $3.50, which is the average shipping price for the sites.
2 comments :
I wish there were a setting in 'settings' which allowed to keep that checkbox checked.
i realize this would be a bunch of work for the developers, but i feel strongly that the total prices including shipping as marked shoudl be included--the fact that some listings are location based should either even out if there are enough data points, or have inconsequenrial impact if there aren't.
then, possibly, a weight based avg of actual shipping costs could be deducted or at least annotated
i feel this way because
a.) more often than not, the s+h charges are immensely unrepresentative of actual costs
b.) items =offer free shipping generally cost the seller the same amount to ship and are simply accounted for by the seller when determining the price. it actually wouldn be that much work to include any discounted rates to the seller for shipping in such a formula, relevant to the various platforms, if you wanted to deduct the projected actual cost
c.)regardless of whether you are a buyer or seller, the TOTAL price someone chose to pay --regardless of would be variations in s+h charges--which represents what someone is wiling to pay for the item, and how much a seller can successfully charge, total
this states/implies that not including the charges is generally favorable to the buyer, and disfavorable to the seller, but personally, i am on this site strictly in interest of the latter, and would highly prefer they be included, perhaps then annotated, and/or accounted/compensated for
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