We ordered a couple of pairs of shoes/boots online the other day, 4 pairs in total. They were on clearance, plus there was a January sale, and there was an additional 15% off coupon, and finally we had reached the free shipping threshold. To tell the truth, some of the shoes may not be that great of a choice but because we had to reach $49 for free shipping (and you can return it at the store), we bought a few more.

The final total ended up being about $67, which works out to about $15 per pair before taxes. That’s a pretty good deal, and much better than what you can get in stores. I hope they can at least break even given that they have to ship big/heavy boxes out to us for free, but that’s when the hilarity starts. I received an email on Monday stating that a shipment had been sent. When I took a look, it turns out that only one pair had been shipped! So now they were going to pay for two shipments instead of waiting until all the shoes were available.

I arrived home today to the shipped pair (they pay for next-day shipping?) and another email saying they had shipped shoes to us – another pair by itself. They didn’t screw up, they seem to be shipping our shoes, pair-by-pair. I can’t imagine that they are making much money off our order if they operate like this (is their shipping cost based on weight and not the amount of shipments?) Maybe they just believe themselves lucky for receiving some money while getting rid of some old inventory; they’d better hope that we don’t return too many!

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: shoes, shopping