Do you make customers pay shipping/handling/box fee?

As mentioned, its a balancing act.
I am not shipping as of yet and honestly don't know if I will.

I dont think any one selling should ship for free the customer def should pay for shipping. What i dont think the customer should have to pay for is the supplies to ship the animal. I have sold a few items and shipped them out and i never charge for supplies to me that is the sellers responsibilty, plus i would only charge exact shipping cost. I have even refunded shipping cost if shipping was cheaper then i qouted.

Shipping and Handeling are always buyers problem. If they dont want to pay then they should find local.
I dont order much online because I hate ups and most places use them.

We eat the shipping, materials, and labor cost here. Expect to give animals away for free or take a loss when your starting up. This is true of all business ventures, you have to take hits for a while and build up a very solid reputation of both your character and your product before you will start seeing profits.

For animals over 1k I've always had free shipping. I expect to pay around 50/60 when buying a snake online though. Getting free shipping with expensive orders is just a nice little bonus I appreciate. I'm going to be doing the same when I start breeding

40$ flat no matter how much you order is what im used to paying and i find that perfectly fair now im not gonna pay 40$ per snake thats insane when they only ship in 1 box just separate bags or deli cups

I've always been of the opinion that the buyer pays exact shipping cost by what ever method, syr, reptiles express ect. The boxes and general supplies that should be absorbed by the seller, basically the general consensus so far! All orders over 200 get flat rate of 50 unless it's an adult animal!!


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I think it's up to the seller to decide if he/she pays for shipping/materials.

If you want to sell your snakes and then charge the customer additional fees for a box and materials and also for the shipping, do it.

If you want to charge a flat fee, do it.

If you want to offer free shipping, do it.

The only thing I object to is when anyone says it's "wrong" for a seller to do business the way they want to do it(short of scamming, lying, etc).

IF it's up front that you will pay the shipping AND for the box etc, then why would the customer object? They knew already they'd be paying that extra. If you only want to buy snakes from people who offer free shipping, then find sellers that offer free shipping. Seems simple to me.

I don't remember paying a box fee, nor have I charged anyone for one, but I usually use boxes from the vet(insulated awesome boxes for free!) so the boxes didn't cost me. If I did buy boxes and styro, I just figured it was part of business costs. But if I wanted to buy a snake and the seller charged me for box etc, that's fine too.

When you have a business, you do have to figure in ALL the expenses, including shipping supplies. Whether you charge per box, or raise the prices to cover those extras, is up to you.

We just price ~$50-$60 shipping into our sales. Sometimes you'll eat $10, but it all averages out in the long run.

I find that giving a bottom dollar "shipping included" price gives no question as to what the animal will cost to get to someone's door.

How often do you not pay shipping when ordering something online? Usually any free shipping is for ground and only on super light or expensive items. It costs a lot of money for next day air for almost everything. The fee for next day air on a CD for my father was 20 dollars. For a damned cd. So yes I expect to pay for shipping. Charge for actual shipping separately and work the 8 dollars for boxing stuff into the snake.