Random question about shipping weights

AutoEuphoria

AutoEuphoria

Captain Slow
I recently bought some car parts from a store that was selling them at a decent price. I get to the checkout, and it says the shipping weight is 13lbs or something like that, and shipping is going to be $15-$20 (I can't remember exactly, but somewhere around there). I think, OK...I can see how these would be kind of heavy, so no problem. I got the box yesterday and it weighs 5lbs max. Now, I'm not going to complain or anything, but is there actually anything that legally obligates an online vendor to use accurate shipping weights? Or can they legally just say it weighs 10lbs more than it does just to get a little more revenue to offset the lower part cost?
 
if the part is large but lightweight you might be getting charged dimension weight for the shipping. For UPS divide the cubic size of the pacakge by 166 to get the dimensional lb weight.
 
That could be I guess...it wasn't, but I could see how that might affect it. I just wasn't sure if there is some law requiring vendors be honest in their package weight estimate and, therefore, the shipping cost passed along to the customer.
 
i have work ship stuff for me sometimes...I take a wild guess at weight and box size to make it cheaper for me, and thats what they use.
 
That's what I figured. I wasn't looking to do anything about it - like I said, I'm not complaining as the cost was still lower than if I had bought it from another source. Just curious!
 
AutoEuphoria said:
That's what I figured. I wasn't looking to do anything about it - like I said, I'm not complaining as the cost was still lower than if I had bought it from another source. Just curious!
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The bullshit excuse they use is "well I thought with packing material it would cost me more, but I was able to find a better way to ship it that cost me less..."
 
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