Originally Posted by
SpeshulEd
When you ship as much as they do, you get ridiculous bulk discounts. Take UK bike suppliers out of the equation and go buy a 10lb coffee maker from Amazon. That would probably cost us $15-$30 to ship, yet they can do it for free because they ship millions of things every day from multiple warehouses all across the country.
OK...let's say they ship 1 million items per day. Free return ship 2 for 1? Now they ship 2 million items each day.
It ain't rocket science.