Many well-run ecommerce sites do let you enter a zip code and see shipping quotes. Some don't until later in the checkout process, and I'm more likely to abando

Many well-run ecommerce sites do let you enter a zip code and see shipping quotes. Some don't until later in the checkout process, and I'm more likely to abandon the checkout on those sites. I won't hesitate to bail at the last moment either if I don't like the final price on the deal. We're talking about a difference of seconds in the checkout experience. It adds to the perception of convenience, but but I don't see the miniscule time savings of the Amazon experience as being worth a higher price on the same item I could get for less elsewhere. I've wasted far more time with Amazon trying to decide if an item is legitimate, and dealing with returns of broken, counterfeit, or misrepresented goods, than I have saved in their checkout experience.