Odd online ammo pricing

[Aluisious]

So I went online to Sportsmansguide.com and ordered some ammo. Part of it was .45 ACP Wolf ammo. I was going to click on 1k rounds when I noticed that it had a 10 dollar heavy shipping charge. So I took a look at the 500 and 250 round options and realized that the 250 round box cost about 20% of the 1000 round case.



It also cost 40% of the 500 round box.



So I ordered 4 boxes of 250 rounds, and saved a total of 40 dollars between the cheaper rate per round and shipping penalties over the 1k case.

Can anyone guess why they would do that?

[proraptor]

That sounds like an awesome loophole....They might ship them seperate who knows

[Aluisious]

I checked my UPS tracking numbers, it looks like they just put it in one big 50 pound box anyway.

[grammaton76]

Websites frequently will have things that trip the "oversized shipping" flag (in their cart admin) on their own, but then not actually weigh the combined order. Weird, but common.