The cost of shipping has risen again. USPS has raised it rates once more and the average cost to ship even a small item starts at $6.00 for domestic locations. Rural areas and zip codes in the continental 48 states now have an additional service fee from USPS making the base price to ship to those zip codes a minimum of $8.00+
Since we offer free shipping on ALL our items here on our site the increase in shipping fees is hard for us to absorb especially on low cost light weight items, but we remain committed to offer free shipping for the time being.
We may have to change our pricing and go to a calculated shipping option on 3rd party platforms like eBay and Reverb to compensate as the increase in shipping and the cost of selling items on those platforms leaves us with very little profit on our items. The selling cost sometimes can be as high as 25% of the sale price of an item on those platforms. Combine that with the material cost, packaging and shipping supplies and for a 25 dollar leaves very little for us. But for now, things will remain the same as we evaluate how to proceed on those platforms.
Thank you to all who support our small business and thank you for reading my rant! Jay
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