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Actually, in Germany shops have to also refund shipping cost. There may be exceptions for large or heavy goods that require delivery by freight forwarding companies, but general parcel delivery via DHL or similar services definetly have to be refunded.

We have to buy school uniforms online. This one place shipped two pairs of pants, $20 each, same size, but one didn't pair fit. Cost us $10 to return them. Return pricing on clothes is bullshit

A lot of webshops in The Netherlands refund the full purchase price including shipping and the bigger once also pay for the return shipment.

Buying on Ali Express/Temu/Ebay

• Item I want is listed for $20

• Click item

• It's actually a 15cm USB-C cable for $20, the actual item which is 'color B' is $75

I've found the Lowe's site/app is even worse, you can sort by cost but it will "categorize" them so it shows the more expensive items first then lists the next set in cost order. I would rather just not have the option.

No way to sort by total cost

But you can filter by free shipping.

Anyway, yeah, what an irrational decision the OP discovered.

This has not been my experience at all, delivery is almost always free for purchases over something like $20.

You can forget entirely about returns though, zero chance to get one of those to work

Under EU consumer law, it’s a requirement for the seller to refund you the shipping cost as well, unless you paid for extras like faster delivery. I understand that’s not a thing in the States, though.

Yep it’s the return shipping that gets you. I order from REI but the closest store is 2 hours so I go 1-2x a year. Often my orders have free shipping but return shipping is prohibitively expensive. This keeps me from buying some things from their online store, either waiting to go in person or ordering it somewhere else. Or most likely, paying a bit more to get something similar locally.

I frequently have the impression that kind of behavior is just a front for harvesting data.

De Minimus got dropped last Friday in the US. This means that goods valued at less than $800US can no longer be shipped duty free. And the rules of how to go about who assesses and collects the import taxes is not clear. So many postal services around the world are now refusing to ship to the US.

And Australia is one. So you are now down to fucking yourself........

Tried to buy a shirt the other day. I realized it was an Australian company when I got to checkout and shipping had $23 USD stacked on the total price to cover for duties. So it was like a $34 shirt, with $75 for shipping + duties. Oof. Did not buy.

Or $30 product, and "sorry we don't ship to your location"

Or the fairly regular $30 product with $75 shipping.

This is me with car parts. Spend 2 more euros to save 3 in shipping? Welp, I guess I'm getting drained plug washers for my next 4 oil changes…

That's assuming meme math.

Practically speaking, I can buy from Amazon for the same or less than a storefront. So if you're charging me $30 at Target and $25+$5 at Amazon, its still no loss to order off my phone rather than fight the crowd at a Big Box.

That's before the time savings of never having to leave my house to shop. For some reason, Lemmyites understand working from home as a cost savings but stumble on shopping from home.

people buy based on emotion

Not me. I ask the AI to do all my shopping, because it is perfectly logical and always performs the optimal action.

Oh, hey, incidentally I now have an order of 265 dozen eggs on my front porch.

Yea, people don't wanna see the + shipping. Higher price with free shipping sells more.

If you're selling an instrument on reverb, absolutely do this. People balk at shipping price concerns. Say you cover it, raise your ask.

Kind of different since the tip is going directly to the worker.

$5 item, free shipping but it crosses the ocean on the back of the next available sea turtle, and if you have any issues they'll send you a replacement component and a loose guide on how to desolder the old component and solder the new component.