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I've taken a few classes. If book/pattern required- I can bring with me or buy at the LQS for retail or on sale. Fabric- can bring mine or buy onsite- usually at 20% discount. No separate shipping fee! Tax on pattern/book/fabric is charged as required by law. Any shipping the LQS is charged to obtain the above is always an integral part of the cost of the materials, to which they add their profit and determine the price. I think your LQS needs some education. It may be an honest mistake, but I don't think so. Let us know how it turns out!

I would look around for another LQS I think.

Never heard of that :0 . When we sign up for a class we get 10% off books and fabric .

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Originally Posted by NanaCsews2 (Post 5228671)

The smart shops charge the price listed on the book. They get a deal on the shipping. They get a deal on the books they purchase. By charging the cost on the book, they are recouping their shipping costs, plus making a profit of the difference between costs they initially paid and what you paid. The smart shops don't tell you what you are being charged for shipping. It is included in the other costs. And then no one says anything. Everyone wins. Repeat: The Smart Shops.

Tell me please how you get a "deal" on shipping as a shop. As a shop owner I'd really like to know. And yes, we do pay shipping on everything that's shipped into our store. The only people who get "deals" on purchasing and shipping are the big outlets like Amazon and the big box stores. That's why they can often sell books for less than your regular LQS can buy them for and get them shipped in. And that's also why many many small online stores don't carry many, if any books anymore.

To the original poster -- if your LQS is charging you full cover price for the book, and not shipping it to you, they should not be charging you an additional shipping fee. If they are sending it to you in advance of the class, or selling it to you at cost, then they probably should be charging you for shipping.

Sounds like she's double dipping. Businesses get to deduct things like shipping costs straight off their income.

Never charged here well unless it is buried in the class fee.............calla

If the instructor was from out of state, you basically purchased from her as if she was located in her state. She possibly charged you her state sales tax. She had to show that sale from her location.
On the shipping charges for the book, the shop may have had to order those as a special order from someone that did not deal through their standard distributors thus they could not combine order amounts to place a minimun order to get free shipping. Occasionally I have to do this, but not often.
OzarksGma

Working at a LQS, we only charge shipping on special orders, where the customer does not want to wait for the item to come with a regular order. Every business out there will tell you how shipping is raising prices -- almost on a weekly basis. Everything in this world is transported, and often many times, between point A and it's final destination.
However, this shop owner needs to consider her customers - she would probably be the first to complain if Walmart or Safeway had an additional shipping fee on the purchase of hamburger, buns and mustard!

ridiculous. I would never go back there.

I would find another LQS, but not before I told the first one that I wouldn't be back and why! That's ridiculous! For the price of the class and the fabric, you would think they would throw the book in at their cost. Somebody is definitely taking advantage of the quilting students.