I recently was interested in a chip where the seller was asking $4.95 shippping for the one chip. I questioned the seller on this, asking if he would allow a more realistic shipping charge. The seller replied he usually shipped his chips very well packed in a box by priority mail with confirmation but that if I insisted he would send it in an padded envelope but he wouldn't be responsible for breakage. I said fine, bought the chip, added $1.25 for shipping. When the chip arrives it comes in a box the size of a cigar box. Inside is another box, wrapped in lots of bubble wrap. The interior box is a metal box with an insert in it so you could display the chip with the box open. The seller said he was nervous about shipping so had absorbed the expense of sending it by his usual way. The point of all this? Just my assumption that the seller was trying to make a profit by charging an exorbitant price for shipping was wrong. He may have been going overboard in the way he was handling his shipping, but he wasn't trying to personally profit.