Pontiac, MI
Quoted from vid1900:Even if the parts cost a dime, Marco has to order many thousands of them at a time. It costs money to have have capital tied up in a bin of small plastic parts that takes years to sell through.
The padded envelope costs 60 cents, the label a dime.
It costs money to inventory, heat, electricity, insure, let alone shrinkage, returns, picking errors, tracking "lost" packages......
Then the employees make $17 a hour to pick, count, package and label your order.
The employees have to have their unemployment taxes, health insurance, and SS taxes. Plus an accounting firm to handle payroll.
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It costs a fortune to keep a small business afloat. That is why 97% of them go under in the first 5 years.
We'd all like shipping to be free, but I understand how an envelope of a few plastic parts costs $7 to ship.
That's all fine and well and I understand these to be the reasons that Marco parts cost more. But, it is still shameful and ridiculous to charge $7 to ship a 1.5oz envelope anywhere in the continental US. They are hiding their even higher prices for the parts they sell in their shipping price. Honestly, I have not seen a part they sell that I couldn't get somewhere else while paying a lower piece price and an honest shipping rate.
