No Such Thing as A Free Lunch, or FREE SHIPPING!

Many people like the word “FREE”. Heck, who doesn’t? But when it’s all said and done, what in life is truly free? Take free shipping for instance, some of our competitors tout “FREEE SHIPPING!!!!” But if you take the time to compare total costs versus price, you will quickly discover that free shipping just might be costing you more in the long run. At PKGING.com we have taken the approach of offering the absolute best possible prices and charging for freight as a separate line item. Make no mistake, we know we aren’t selling diamonds; we are in a low margin, high volume business. The truth is we could NEVER afford to ship something free of charge and neither can our competitors’, despite what they might say. So in order to offer FREE shipping you simply average your shipping costs for a particular group of products to an average destination and build it into the price of the product. So my blog today is to inform you that costs are costs and for the most part in dealing with UPS and FEDEX we all receive very similar rates. So please don’t make a purchasing decision based on FREE shipping, take the time to calculate exactly what the total TRANSCATION COSTS will be, compare one to the other and I believe that you will soon see that FREE shipping isn’t so free after all.

If shipping costs are an obstacle for doing business with www.PKGING.com please call us, we are reasonable people and want to do everything we can to EARN your business.