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So I got my Happs order in today...
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u_rebelscum:
I've ordered from happs in the past without any unreasonable shipping costs.  But I never bought anything big, so I never got hit by UPS's oversize charge.

I used to work at a small shop that sold a couple products for $10.  We were changed >$10 shipping for next day by the shipping companies (IIRC, fedEx $19, UPS $16, airborne (now dhl) $12), so we had to pass it directly to the costumer.  They complained all the same.  Some them had their own accounts, and we would ship on their accounts if they asked, but they didn't save anything, AFAICT, but those people never complained.  Go figure.

Anyway, a good way to test how much was shipping is to go to the UPS (or whatever shipping company used) web site and go to the the shipping cost page for the package and use the actually shipping weight and dimensions of the package.  Do NOT guessimate (see example why), and do not use a different shipper web page.

Two examples, both UPS ground, chicago to san fransisco, 2 lb, $10 value, personal packaging, delivery to comercial:
31"x27"x10": $33.73
31"x29"x10": $61.23

Two inch difference ==> $27.50 more.  This is direct from UPS.  (second example: dhl: $40.19, fedex $41.56)

So if you were charged $40 for shipping, and you bought under $100, $10 went to the extra handling fee, $30 to shipping, which in my case is under what I would be charged (assuming your shipment was ~24"x24"x7" but under 31"x28"x10", UPS ground*).  Even if you bought more than $100, that's only $6.37 in handling, not bad for $100 worth of stuff.

In my books, that's reasonable. 
(*Any small change in the examples will make differences: a residential delivery adds $2.50 to the second example, and shipping from Reno NV cuts it almost in half, for instance.  Please test it out for your exact case to be able to compare to what you were charged.)


However, most people won't see reason, and still say happs is way too expensive in shipping without making the effort to see if they really are.  Just by using their gut feeling on what "too much" is.  (AKA "Sheet for brains".)
If UPS charges XYZ, and happs charges you XYZ, XYZ + $5, or XYZ + 10%, that's reasonable IMO.  Sure it's not free, but we've been spoiled by buy.com, amazon, dell, ect.  Even they are decreasing on the number of free shipping sales (or increasing prices to hide the "free" shipping costs). 
Banacek:
I wouldn't mind the shipping costs if what I go was in excellent condition and the box that it was shipped in wasn't the thickness of a piece of paper. :(
Banacek:
UPDATE: So I sent an email to Happs about the damaged bezel, to which I never got a response (but that might be my email's problem). I then called Happs a few days later to get an RMA for the bezel. The woman on the phone told me that they already shipped out a replacement bezel on their dime, and that I should have it in two days! Sure enough, I had a new bezel in perfect condition two days later! I got to hand it to them, they really went over the top to fix the problem.
koolmoecraig:
I ordered a Vision Pro monitor from them. Shipping was only like $18 to LA and that sucker weighed like 40lbs.
deadkenndys1105:
I ordered my coin door from happ and it was spotless.  The door was 65 buck but I dont think the shipping was that much.  I think it was 10 bucks or so.
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