Quote Originally Posted by six2go View Post
True! The shipping of the completed seat back to you probably won't be as much. Companies that do a lot of shipping will have boxes made to the minimum dimensions to accept their products, thus holding down the price. The consumer has to make do with a box that generally is larger than needed which will increase the rate.
Shipping outfit competing for business against their rival companies will sometime cut the shipping cost by as much as 60% to get the shipments from a company that uses their competition, I was in the freight industry for a time and saw this first hand.