I ordered a few t shirts from overseas. Shipping was $3 and it took two weeks. If I in Canada try to buy a few t shirts from hot topic website, the shipping is roughly $50 and it takes 3-4 weeks, and it's all shipped from inside the country.

I have no idea how shipping works, cause that shit makes no sense to me.

Tell me about it. Hawaii has its own obstacles with various things on a regular basis.

I need a replacement laptop battery that costs $50.

But you cannot get an individual battery not already inside a laptop shipped to you by the usual options, because hazmat shipping restrictions make it prohibited or too expensive for the seller to pay the fees.

I can have it delivered to a freight company and have them forward it to me via sea for $270+, or have it delivered to a friend on the mainland, and have them send it by USPS Ground (also comes by sea in a few weeks) for about $15.

I ordered a portable power station from Amazon from the one and only company that would deliver here, and while I did get it for the usual free shipping to everywhere else in the US, I looked later in the day after making the order, and they had changed their allowed shipping areas to exclude Hawaii like everyone else.

Someone fucked up… and a big mahalo to them!

I had something like this where they wanted an extra $140 for shipping so I can get it in two weeks instead of two months.

I opted for the linger wait, still got them in 2 weeks.

Uh that's nothing. I bought in one site that sold imported foods from USA. And they are bastards. Until you go to pay it doesn't tell you shipping price until last minute, which then you discover is kind of expensive, and add that to the products that aren't usually cheap.

But that's nothing the worse is that when there a season event, Halloween, Christmas, etc where usually people are going to buy USA exclusive stuff, like some types of candy etc.

They have a logic that plays around with the dates so the cheapest shipping says is always after that date, so after Halloween or after Christmas, etc. Unless of course you buy it like 2 months in advance. And the "express" or whatever is called the shipping option is even more expensive. Thank God I have found other alternative pages but man. .. they are bastards.

You could try the cheap option but I am pretty sure I did once and they actually hold up until the dates would match to actually send it.

I once had a $100 shipping option that was one day faster for something that cost like $30

I want to hear the story behind people who click the massively expensive shipping

Link the item you coward.

Got to love these blatant money laundering schemes

They want you to upgrade to Prime.

But I NEED it on Thursday!