Amazon.com just lost sales today. I went to their site and found some "Choose your own adventure books" that I used to read when I was younger. The books were really cheap from 1 cents to 1 dollar or two. I selected 13 books, got ready to check out, and I find that I will have to pay 74 bucks just to ship 7 dollars worth of books to my address. That is a bunch of crap. There is no reason for Amazon to charge that much for shipping. The funny thing is, when I sell books through my Amazon affiliate on my site, I get paid pennies, but when I want to buy a book, for pennies, I have to pay ridiculous amounts for shipping. Amazon is a rip off. Their shipping and tax fees have gone up a lot lately. I canceled my order and didn't buy anything. Amazon apparently likes to rip off both their customers and affiliates.