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How do you split shipping costs?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
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Let's say you've bought two items.

One $8, one $12. Shipping costs $4.

Do you split it in half, thus $10 and $14 or do you split according to price, thus $9.60 and $14.40?
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$10 and $14
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Half, it's not more expensive to ship a more expensive DVD than a cheaper one.
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I don't include shipping or tax in the price I record in DVD Profiler.
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Are you talking about the price paid field on the Personal screen in DVDP?

I don't include shipping at all in there.  Shipping is just an incidental fee that determines how fast I get my DVD, but it doesn't change the fact you paid $8 or $12 for the disc.  I could go cheap and wait 2 weeks or I could pay some insane next-day ship fee and get it sooner, but either way the disc itself cost the same.
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Ditto...I don't include tax or shipping costs in the price paid field. Insurance doesn't cover that.
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Doesn't include Taxes?

Wow.. finally a reason to like integrated Sales Tax (VAT = 17.5%)

I knew there had to be some silver lining to paying more for the things
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I don't enter tax or shipping costs, either.  And if I get a get a "Buy 3 get 1 free deal" I'll usually show the "free" one as just that -- free.  It's complicated enough to enter all the rest of the data about the DVD that I don't want to bother figuring out or do proportional data entries.  I WILL enter the sale price, however.

The only time I consider shipping and tax is when I'm trying to determine which vendor to buy the DVD from.

Our sales tax just went up from 5% to 6% in Maryland.  I shudder to think about a VAT of 17.5% like Funky mentioned.
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In germany MwSt (VAT) is 19% on DVDs.

When I import stuff from the US my calculation goes as follows

US price / 1.56 * 1.035 * 1.19 = DE price

where the 3.5% are the customs fee and the 19% are the import tax (EUSt)
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I don't enter tax or shipping costs, either.  And if I get a get a "Buy 3 get 1 free deal" I'll usually show the "free" one as just that -- free.  It's complicated enough to enter all the rest of the data about the DVD that I don't want to bother figuring out or do proportional data entries.  I WILL enter the sale price, however.


Ditto, I do it the same way.
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I don't enter tax or shipping costs, either.  And if I get a get a "Buy 3 get 1 free deal" I'll usually show the "free" one as just that -- free.  It's complicated enough to enter all the rest of the data about the DVD that I don't want to bother figuring out or do proportional data entries.  I WILL enter the sale price, however.


Ditto, I do it the same way.

This is how I do it as well.
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Not an original answer, but I don't enter anything than the price for the DVD in the price paid field. I ignore the federal tax, provincial tax, the shipping or the custom fee (not that big, since it's only 5$ if they catch a package who have more than a 20 $CAN value).

Sometimes I'm almost tempted to add the shipping (the european Amazon marketplace charge sometimes equal three times the value of the DVD).
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I had an HD dvd (via eBay) shipped to me the other day from Florida USA to BC Canada..,
my ship costs were $6.99..  cost of stamp on bubblepack?.........36 cents !!!     
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Our sales tax just went up from 5% to 6% in Maryland.  I shudder to think about a VAT of 17.5% like Funky mentioned.


Small change, our sales tax is 25%. 
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Most Europeans can't complain about VAT...gotta pay for that socialized healthcare somehow .
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I had an HD dvd (via eBay) shipped to me the other day from Florida USA to BC Canada..,
my ship costs were $6.99..  cost of stamp on bubblepack?.........36 cents !!!     


You obviously have overlooked the infamous eBay "handling" charges ... $6.63 
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