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Review title: Rip off pricing and shipping
Product review: This filter has been for sale for 8.99 recently, but now other sites all lead only to here where it is suddenly selling for $16.99 ("down from $23.99" is BS), at twice the price. The larger 10 cup model only costs 9.99, is available everywhere.Then, insultingly, shipping weight is listed as a whopping lying 4 pounds. This item weighs 3 ounces (company website is honest at least).Isn't that illegal, to charge shipping costs based on fake weights? I know handling costs something, but that is in a different tax category - shipping "reimbursement" goes right into the seller's pocket as hidden profit. It probably costs 80 cents parcel post to send this item. They want to charge 10 times that amount when it is already marked up 175 percent!What gives? If sellers wanted to help the environment, they would make products such as this easily available, not take such gross advantage of people trying to change. This is called profiteering.
