UPS pricing is innaccurate

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UPS pricing is innaccurate #26

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Put an item in the basket with physical dimensions and weight
2. Proceed to google checkout using ups as a carrier
3. View the price, UPS is significantly cheaper than what one 
realistically get charged for shipping the item. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
An accurate price lookup for shipping a product

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
v1.25

Please provide any additional information below.
Drop_off, Regular_Pickup, and Special_Pickup makes no difference with the 
UPS price lookup

Original issue reported on code.google.com by blogsche...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

could you provide a specific example?  Please include package size, weight 
shipping
origin and destination

Original comment by peng.y...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Yeah, do  58 lbs. 58x12x20 inches  being shipped from 08527 to 76016. So 
according 
to my calculations, being above 5100 and something cubic inches its divided by 
194 
to get its dimensional weight of 72 lbs, it comes out cheaper through Google 
checkout than it does on the UPS online tool site. 

Because of the discrepency, I will add 19.5 percent to the calculation and that 
gets 
it near the UPS cost but it isn't entirely accurate either. I gathered that 
19.5 
percent from the fuel surcharge that UPS is putting on shipping its goods.

The merchant to delivery methods do not make a difference either for UPS 
shipping 
either: SPECIAL_PICKUP, DROP_OFF, and PICKUP 

http://www.advertisingmediaworks.com/shopping/Home/Blog-Scheduler-App-Service/

add the item to the cart, then use google checkout, sign in, and see your UPS 
shipping price. Compare it to the shipping price from the UPS online tool.

Original comment by blogsche...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2008 at 4:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Peng, 
sorry I took the UPS part down, I just put it back up so that you can see the 
inconsistency.

Original comment by blogsche...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2008 at 3:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Looking into what may be causing this will try to update with additional 
information
as soon as it's available

Original comment by peng.y...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2008 at 5:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

looks like the cart post didn't correctly populate the variables for your XML 
post. 
Did you modify the CCS functions?

              <ship-from id="Store_origin">
                <city>$shipCity</city>
                <region>$shipState</region>
                <postal-code>$shipZip</postal-code>
                <country-code>US</country-code>
              </ship-from>

Original comment by peng.y...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2008 at 5:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by peng.y...@gmail.com on 16 May 2008 at 12:47

Changed state: Invalid