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Family Values
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 4,075
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Wayne,
I assume that they have a deal worked out with Ingram on the shipping. Ingram already ships ground for free for orders over $2k (iirc). And that's for my low volume operation. We do maybe $40k/mo with Ingram. I am sure Ingram's deal with Amazon assumes that they will ship ground when possible. Ingram has 10 or 12 warehouses nationwide (locally in Fontana), when they can't source it locally, I'd bet that Ingram is on the hook for some of it.
Also, Ingram and other big distributors (Tech Data, Synnex, etc..) get sweetheart deals from FedEx and UPS because of their volume. They basically have FedEx and UPS shipping offices in their warehouses.
Drag em in and make them compete. Calculate your shipping charges for the past year or two, and send them an RFP. See what happens.
Good luck.
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