I agree, shipping is a rip off.

Anyone from PogoPlug care to give us loyal users a free shipping coupon as well.

Really, *free* should be FREE!


Thx,

tom

There are other costs associated with "shipping" an item beyond the actual cost of the carrier charge. The packaging costs money, printing the shipping labels costs money, and paying someone to fulfill all the "free orders" costs money. The 'H' in S&H is actually a lot more involved than most people realize. The carrier is only half the charge of S&H. The indirect costs (i.e. not listed above) alone are also very high.

So, if you take that $8.88 and subtract it from $14, you get $5.12. If you figure a guy being paid $15/hr to package the items takes roughly 7.5 minutes to fully package, seal, label, and place the usb stick, that's almost $2. That leaves just over $3 to pay for the box, packing materials, tape, and labeling.

I don't know about you, but that sounds like a good deal to me. Of course, if you're that *unhappy* over the extra $5, you could always drive to Best buy, Walmart, or wherever and spend $60 on one. Then again, you'd probably spend that $5 you're worried about just in gas.

If you're only 60 miles from there, and had a reasonable vehicle, you could always just drive there and save a few bucks. 20mi/gal @ $3.00/gal x 60mi = $9 + *your time*. It's less than $14, but how much is that 2-3 hours of driving worth to you?

Of course if you count travel in both directions it's $18 in gas with that formula... I guess $14 doesn't seem so unreasonable, does it?

Well, if they aren't bundling, that does seem quite like a padding charge rather than a packing charge, which is a bit unfair. I could understand something like $10 (for example) for the first one plus $1 for each extra one due to weight or whatever, but clearly that isn't the case here.

Sorry C/E, you're on your own to justify that one. Why are you overcharging folks?

Yeah, I think this wasn't handled very well. The shipping expense notwithstanding, I think it was pretty limited that one had to

A) HEAR somewhere that there was a new wireless adaptor and get to the website and sign up, and then

B) Get the code back from pogoplug and submit it and complete the order within all within LESS than 12 days?

I got the code, but didn't notice that they would ALL expire on aug 31, 2010. Most likely an accounting/finance booking issue more than anything else.

Personally, I received NO email to my pogoplug email address that said anything about this free promo, it was only that I read it somewhere and the made the submission, but if one DIDN'T read the email response thoroughly, one wouldn't have know that they most likely had less than 10 days to perform the coupon submission.

Personally, I was OUT OF THE COUNTRY and didn't want to use my credit card anywhere over wifi, just to get the dongle for free.

Where is my free adapter? I signed up but heard nothing......