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3 fresh packs of Dragon's Maze, straight out of the box into an envelope and to your door. These packs are not tampered with, inspected, repacked or mapped and if you order 12 or more 3-packs, Massdrop will ship a factory sealed box Read More
Great deal if it weren't for shipping. I can get a sealed box from amazon for under $100 on Prime. It will cost me more than that here and I'd get my amazon purchase well before this one.
We just added one day to this product to let it collect some more orders, hopefully we hit the lowest drop point! Share it on Facebook/reddit/twitter etc to get mroe people on board!
Shipping costs aren't purely based on the freight/USPS charges. Shipping/warehousing facilities charge "picking" fees for every single item that goes into a box/envelope/etc.
Think of it this way: it takes a worker significantly more time to count (and double check) 33 packs of magic cards and then put them into an envelope/box than it takes to grab 1 factory sealed booster box and put it into packaging. Hence, it's more "costly" to ship 33 booster packs than it is to ship 1 booster box.
Whether you're ordering 3,6,9 or 12 packs of cards, the shipping materials are different sized envelopes/boxes. So when doing fulfillment, they have a handful of different packaging options, also causing complication- versus "1 or 2 booster boxes which fit in Bag A or Box B".
Is the cost 100% purely linear? absolutely not, but it's a reasonably close approximation. There is honestly nothing else we can do about the shipping costs.
This is...eh, an ok deal if it hits the max % off. But my biggest gripe is that shipping is insane. Increasing in a linear manner? Really?
@Mark: You said "When our warehouse/shipper doesn't need to find 20 different items on the shelves and then shove them into oddly shaped boxes, people save money."
Seeing as how these packs are the same size, since the buys are occurring in 3-pack "chunks", and since packaging material exists to fill excess space inside boxes, I fail to see how shipping these would not be easy, thus allowing us to avoid a $1.75 (!!!) charge per pack. Is there honestly nothing else you guys can do about the shipping cost?
I want to jump on this drop so, so bad. Trust me, I do. I wouldn't even care if we didn't hit the max % off. But the deal almost completely fizzles with the ridiculous $1.75/pack shipping cost. At that point, I'd rather pay the extra dollar or two to help my LGS, since they're a good group of people.
I'd buy two or three of these if the shipping cost wasn't linear... Since it is, it's almost $3 a pack. My LGS sells these boosters for $3.50, so I'd be getting 12% off, but waiting a lot longer to ship.
Of course, just because it isn't a deal for me doesn't mean there aren't people for which this is a great deal. Perhaps when there's another booster box drop up, I can find people to split one with.