[Dave Colangelo]

What about drone delivery?

But on a more serious note, free shipping makes me spend more money and controls my shopping pattern especially here on Pelican. I often need about $80 of parts and thus don't qualify for the free shipping. As such I usually "find" another $20 of parts to order to spend the money and get free shipping. Now I dont know what your profits per part are but does this increase in spending to make the minimum (an increase you may lose) out weigh the shipping issue?

Other places offer free shipping. Now I understand the business issue you are having here but one of the things that keeps me buying from pelican is competitive prices and loyalty. Now $5 is not much and I would not have a problem paying that but if your shipping went up to standard rates you may find your self losing shoppers to sites like amazon where the prices are the same and they are saving on shipping. The recession is far from over and many of us still do what we can to save.

What about offering a year of free shipping for a flat rate (say $99). This essentially boils down to what amazon prime is doing. Just a thought.

Regards
Dave