[rileymat2]

It is not unreasonable for a customer to expect the price seen on an item to be what it will cost in total.

Amazon would be unusable for comparison shopping if you needed to go through checkout to get the full price with shipping.

[webscaleizfun]

Definitely, you should be able to get a shipping price without going into the checkout, Amazon makes it quite difficult compared to Aliexpress & eBay when it comes to finding out shipping prices, to the point that I avoid shopping on there with a rare exception occurring every 6 months or so.

For the average shopper, pricing in shipping and sales tax will make them buy more online. Breaking out sales tax has caused a 9% sales drop in states Amazon charges sales tax in.

[ghaff]

>Breaking out sales tax has caused a 9% sales drop in states Amazon charges sales tax in.

Note it's really "collects" sales tax in. Buyers still, in principle, owe use taxes on the purchase--which individuals often don't pay of course.

I don't think it's so much a matter of whether sales tax is bundled or not though. For big ticket electronics purchases, for example, the same item is often available for the same price with "free" shipping from other online resellers who don't collect sales tax--and is cheaper for many consumers as a result.

[aninhumer]

Yes, but I also don't want to pay the individual shipping costs for every item in an order, when shipping them together is cheaper.