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<blockquote data-quote="Shag" data-source="post: 6108812" data-attributes="member: 13289">I do understand, and I'm not hammering you guys, and I'm not pointing this kickstarter project out in specific. I'm in retail and I'm just thinking of it from a purely business point of view. I just don't understand how Reaper can do free shipping (and got 3.4 million dollars) and how other kickstarters don't see this and re-think charging for shipping.&nbsp; Lets say you charge shipping and get half a million out of KSer.&nbsp; Now what if you had not charged? Perhaps you would have gotten double or triple that amount.&nbsp; If you build in a big enough margin, you could just soak the shipping at a certain point.&nbsp; Perhaps this is a weakness of how KSer is currently set up.&nbsp; It would be cool to see a floating point shipping set up. IE: If our funding gets to X then shipping goes down by Y etc.I really think a significant percentage of possible investors could be turned away unnecessarily.&nbsp; What if without shipping a kickstarter went over by a million or 2?&nbsp; At these numbers shipping costs become a much smaller percentage of overhead.Like I said, being in retail, I would just love to see Reapers numbers on that kickstarter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> At a certain point in that project the money rolling in was probably very high gross profit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shag, post: 6108812, member: 13289"] I do understand, and I'm not hammering you guys, and I'm not pointing this kickstarter project out in specific. I'm in retail and I'm just thinking of it from a purely business point of view. I just don't understand how Reaper can do free shipping (and got 3.4 million dollars) and how other kickstarters don't see this and re-think charging for shipping. Lets say you charge shipping and get half a million out of KSer. Now what if you had not charged? Perhaps you would have gotten double or triple that amount. If you build in a big enough margin, you could just soak the shipping at a certain point. Perhaps this is a weakness of how KSer is currently set up. It would be cool to see a floating point shipping set up. IE: If our funding gets to X then shipping goes down by Y etc. I really think a significant percentage of possible investors could be turned away unnecessarily. What if without shipping a kickstarter went over by a million or 2? At these numbers shipping costs become a much smaller percentage of overhead. Like I said, being in retail, I would just love to see Reapers numbers on that kickstarter :) At a certain point in that project the money rolling in was probably very high gross profit. [/QUOTE]

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