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I put three used books in my cart from the same seller. Now when I checkout, I'm being charged $3.99 for each book even though they could probably all be shipped for that same price. What am I missing? I'm searching the help files but haven't found anything. Has anyone been able to combine shipping on used books?

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The $3.99 fee is charged by amazon, not the seller. The sellers can't change the shipping charges. It's a flat $3.99 for standard and $6.99 for expedited. Amazon takes a big chunk of the sale price (a $1 selling/listing fee and a flat $1.35 commission plus 15%), so the seller relies on any extra money from the shipping to help with packaging materials and to add to their profit.

 

On the other hand, if you buy a book that weighs more than 4 pounds, it is going to cost more than $3.99 to ship it, and the seller just has to pay the extra.

 

I have a friend who has been selling on amazon for over a year now and when she first started, she would give a refund for the shipping overage when someone purchased more than one book. Someone from Amazon wrote to her and asked her to stop doing that.

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I put three used books in my cart from the same seller. Now when I checkout, I'm being charged $3.99 for each book even though they could probably all be shipped for that same price. What am I missing? I'm searching the help files but haven't found anything. Has anyone been able to combine shipping on used books?

 

We've frequently bought from abebooks.com and I think that many of the sellers there will give a combined rate for shipping.

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