Is this possible? For example, I would like to buy two $0.75 books from the same seller. But Half.com wants to charge me $2.30 per book to ship, when obviously the seller could combine that into one package. Thus $1.50 worth of books ends up costing $6.10.

Anyone know if there's a way around this?

No.

But the seller will get less money for shipping. The seller gets $1.78 out of the $2.30 for the first item, and only $0.61 for each additional item from the same order -- the buyer still has to pay the full $2.30 for each item.

I can't beleive Half would do something like that, but I guess they have to make money with all those 5 off 10/15 going around

Half.com is an Ebay company .

That should tell you everything you need to know .

-Gunshy