What I hate is when I'm shopping on Amazon and it's one for $5, or get a pack of fifty for $7. If the majority of the cost of selling cheap things on Amazon is

What I hate is when I'm shopping on Amazon and it's one for $5, or get a pack of fifty for $7. If the majority of the cost of selling cheap things on Amazon is fixed (Amazon stocking fees, carrier fees, etc) then the actual profit to the seller on the $7 item is probably higher than it is on the $5 item. They know very few people will buy the $5 individual item; it exists to make the higher priced, higher profit item look like a bargain.