Have you ever ordered something from Amazon which totals $23 with the shipping charges tacking on another $5? Since Amazon gives free shipping on orders $25 and over, you are actually better off here ordering an item under the shipping amount and getting the free shipping (plus the extra item). In a recent post I read on Lifehacker, a tool which makes this easy...

Whenever you are buying or selling online, for example on eBay, and you are trying to determine if a shipping price is fair, keep in mind there is more to shipping than just the cost of postage. For example, if you are shipping a hard drive that weighs 3 pounds, you still have to:pack it in a box secure it with popcorn/bubble wrap seal the box take it to the...

If you do a lot of buy and selling online, you may or may not have a some sort of system in place to track all your orders. If not, a web site you should check out is TrackMyShipments. You can read about how the service works on their site. They currently support the 4 major carriers: UPS, Fedex, DHL and USPS. A really cool function of the service is you can...