TCO or Total Cost of Ownership

There are a lot of websites offering to sell you the same or similar item. How do you choose to buy from one site or another. One method is TCO or Total Cost of Ownership.

Lets say one website offers you an item for $6.00 as cost of merchandise and another offers you the same item for $1.00. Sounds fishy?

Well,lets dig down further.

Most website also charge for shipping and handling. Lets say the first website offers shipping and handling for that item at $7.00 and the other website offers shipping and handling at $20.00 which TCO or total cost of ownership was lower or cheapest to own? The first website $6 plus $7 totals $13, while the second website was $1 and $20 totalling $21.

There are often other charges to watch out for such as state and local sales tax. vsqigifts.com only charges for orders delivered to New Jersey and the customer does not have a New Jersey Sales Tax Certificate.

Some websites have a process fee in addition to merchandise cost, shipping and handling, and sales tax. Others have a membership fee also. vsqigifts.com does not have any process fees or membership fees.

In fact people that register with us on the vsqigifts.com website enjoy further discounts.

vsqigifts.com also lists ground shipping rates on the website on the green horizontal bar across the website under the link "shipping" for you to see our shipping rates. Many other websites have hidden shipping rates that you cannot see until you are checking out.

What do you think about this hint to save our customers time and money? Please let us know.