ORIGINAL: Dai Phan
I have a concern regarding an overcharge on the shipping from Giant Scale Planes.
From what's been written, it sounds like you were right to be concerned.
According to the Web Site, it is the company policy not to post the shipping charges until the box is packaged.
It is against my policy to order products from companies that will not provide me with a total, including ALL shipping charges. I've actually backed out of several online purchases, and looked elsewhere, because the vendor would not give me a total before asking me to enter my credit card number. Guess I won't be ordering from GSP anytime soon.
This is according to GSP is to provide the absolute minimum shipping cost to costumers.
They should have a pretty good idea how much each item weighs, and an estimate of how much extra weight the packaging will add. In this age of computers, it should be pretty easy to build a system to add up the weights of each item plus packaging and provide a reasonably close shipping cost. If the estimate is a bit under, GSP pays the difference. If it's a bit over, GSP makes a bit extra on the sale. Seems this would be better than the surprises people are getting. I wonder if they are reading this thread?