What is Express Handling Fee
We simulate a total price (incl.shipping) from those notorious low-ball web sites (See paragraph 1 on this page ) with our standard shipping on some shopping comparison search engines. Then we add the express handling fee to provide a contrasting experience: we will usually deliver to you within 6 business days, long before you would have any clue as to where your order is with these web sites except that your credit card would be charged immediately despite the violation of one of the most basic rules by major credit cards: no charge is allowed without product shipped first.(A credit card issuer will unconditionally put money back in a consumer's card when a dispute is initiated.)
Consumer Alert: Many of the sites that rank at the lowest 20-30 percentile of price (for example, the 5 lowest price sellers out of 20) employ the availability trick. When a consumer does not order the "add-ons", the order will be ignored in the name of "product no longer available" or "out of stock" until the consumer can no longer wait. This is essentially a modified form of bait and switch because the seller would lose money if it honors the price that is below the cost. The correlation is extremely high, in many cases, it is near perfect.
Consumer Alert: Many of the sites that rank at the lowest 20-30 percentile of price (for example, the 5 lowest price sellers out of 20) employ the availability trick. When a consumer does not order the "add-ons", the order will be ignored in the name of "product no longer available" or "out of stock" until the consumer can no longer wait. This is essentially a modified form of bait and switch because the seller would lose money if it honors the price that is below the cost. The correlation is extremely high, in many cases, it is near perfect.
