[amayausers.com] Re: pricing caps
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Sorry to butt in, but we have found that the easiest way to guess-timate
shipping charges in this day and age, is to start keeping track of orders that
are on particular style. Say you order 56 T-shirts then you take the shipping
charges and cod fees if any and whatever you may be getting charged as a
handling or processing fee, and divide it by the amount of shirts received.
Soon you will start to see a common pattern such as if I order a T-shirt from
vendor X it will cost and additional $.28 per shirt for shipping and maybe
sweatshirts cost you $.36 each
(Completely random and made up pricing) but soon as you figure your pricing you
can make sure that you know your cost plus shipping and then mark it up
whatever percentage beyond that and be confident your costs are covered. soon
you'll realize most polo shirts will be slightly more than t's and not as much
as sweats, and so on...
This way of caculating takes longer at first but soon you realize it's based on
actual costs and not guesses of what you think your going to pay.
Don't forget to figure some new orders every so often to make sure your in the
right ballpark still. And if you get free freight for bigger orders keep the
money and tell yourself that it helps counteract the time when you didn't
figure enough freight for the job. and made less. In the end the goal is to be
somewher in the middle, (we hope)
Ron :D
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