About shipping prices.

[No: 9]

Hi everyone!

I have to say I really like theory11 products but the shipping prices are very discouraging for me. I live in Turkey and the lowest shipping price I get is around 18-20$ which is way too much when compared to the product prices.

For example I have to pay 20$ shipping price for Nyman's "Code", which is funny because the trick itself is 25$.

It's just that I don't want to pay more than the product's price. A fair shipping price would be around 10$. And it was around 10-12$ a few months ago which was fine for me.

Hopefully the shipping prices will get some tweaking and I'll be able to buy more products.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

Shipping prices have gone up across the board. Theory11, by my calculations, is losing money on shipping.

 

[j.bayme]

Shipping prices have gone up across the board. Theory11, by my calculations, is losing money on shipping.

ChristopherT is pretty much correct. Our goal is not to profit on shipping - it's a cost to us, as it is to you. Our shipping rates are based on what it costs US to ship the package to you (not more and not less - that's the goal). For example, check out this screenshot of USPS.com - showing actual shipping costs on a box containing The Code to Turkey. Notice that the cheapest shipping option is pretty much exactly what our site showed you - around $20 with First Class Mail International. It might be a little bit more than that, when you factor in the weight of packaging and the shipping box itself.

Of course, as you mentioned, we'd LOVE for shipping to be only $10 to you - but we'd be losing $10 on that, and the only way to resolve that would be increasing the price of the product itself by $10. Many companies do that - making the products more expensive, and offering "free" shipping (that isn't actually free) as a result. We don't. Many companies charge $8 or even $12 per deck - with "free" shipping - we don't. We'd much rather charge a reasonable, fair price for our products, and a competitive, reasonable, accurate rate for shipping. I find that approach much more honest and transparent.