All I needed was two 6 pin IDC connectors, I was expecting to pay more for shipping that the things themselves the total cost of which was $2.60. RS however sent them by courier for free - they can't have made a profit on that transaction.
RS often do free shipping promotions - it's the thing I like best about them.
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Their current "promotion" has been going for many years now. Presumably the prices are adjusted in order to pay for it one way or other (the extra charge on the $2600 orders probably pay for sending the $2.60 ones), but they are reasonable on many things anyway.
It's even more absurd for me living in the middle of nowhere. How else can you get some bloke in a ute to drive down various gravel back roads, just to deliver my $2 bag of resistors? Heck it might cost more than $2 in fuel, not to count whatever damage must be done to the ute driving on these roads at the speeds that they do!
And they'll do it twice for orders with parts stocked locally and overseas, though there tends to be a week's delay before the couriers get around to making the trek out to me, so sometimes they have arrived at the same time anyway.
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Yeah I've always got free delivery but noticed they said it was for a 'promotion period' last time I looked (which was a while ago now).
-- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM" David Melville This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software.
They almost certainly don't pay their couriers per delivery.
Presumably their sales volume is large enough they're able to negotiate a monthly rate, or similar, which averages out the cost per delivery as well as underpinning the courier's cash flow.
They're also relatively expensive but for their particular customer base convenience and consistent quality probably outweighs the cost.
-- John H
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