ShopGoodwill auction shipping thievery

I've complained about this before, to wit...

I buy a lot of stuff on shopgoodwill.com.  For thems of you who don't know what it is, it's an auction site for Goodwill stores.  Not all Goodwill stores list items on this site, but many do.

When you want to check the shipping charge on an item you're interested in, once you get the shipping quote, something like this will pop up:

What you're bidding on weighs 2.6 pounds.  The shipping weight figure is a number they pulled out of their ass, pardon my French, which will be rationalized as 'supporting their mission.'  The item for the above quote is four magazines.  Not a pair of mercury glasses vases, or a Royal Dux sculpture.

Four. magazines.  

Probably less than 200 pages per.  

I get that packing costs something.  I pack things all the time for shipping.  

For me to pack four magazines would take maybe 5 minutes total, and the envelope they'd be going in would cost me, at most, $2.60 for something big like Life magazines.  And I'd ship it via USPS, as God intended. So much easier, so much cheaper.

However, if I really really really wanted those four magazines, I'd bit the bullet, and pay the extra.

Which brings us to...

... the above.

The actual weight  of this auction lot is 4.5 pounds.

The shipping weight over is 400% of that.

Again, what this quote is for is NOT a fragile item.  Heck, they could throw it in a padded mailer, tape it, play padded mailer soccer for a few hours, and still not damage the item.  

It's highly unlikely that this lot will be sold, unless the high bidder is in the same town as the Goodwill store that's selling it, and if they allow people to come in and just pick up what they were high bidder on.  Believe it or not, they often charge for that privilege, too.  

Not all Goodwill stores are this maggotudinal.  Some have a flat shipping fee on their items, i.e. even if the high bidder is 3000 miles from the store, they still pay that four or  six or eight dollars or whatever is specified.  Some have even really wised up, and charge 1¢ for shipping. Those items ALWAYS seem to sell.