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  2. Free shipping - Wikipedia

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    Internet vendors benefit from a simplified sales model as compared to traditional brick-and-mortar stores. By storing goods remotely at a warehouse location and shipping goods directly to a consumer, significant transportation needs are eliminated both on the part of the vendor (shipping goods to stores) and by the consumer (traveling to stores).

  3. FOB (shipping) - Wikipedia

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    FOB ( free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce. FOB is only used in non-containerized sea freight or inland waterway ...

  4. Possession of stolen goods - Wikipedia

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    Law. v. t. e. Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods. In many jurisdictions, if an individual has accepted possession of goods (or property) and knew they were stolen, then the individual may be charged with a crime, depending on the value of the stolen goods, and the goods ...

  5. Automobile handling - Wikipedia

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    Automobile handling and vehicle handling are descriptions of the way a wheeled vehicle responds and reacts to the inputs of a driver, as well as how it moves along a track or road. It is commonly judged by how a vehicle performs particularly during cornering , acceleration, and braking as well as on the vehicle's directional stability when ...

  6. Ten things that aren't free - but should be (and how to get ...

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    Online banking, while now free everywhere, was one of those things that I thought should be free because it saved the company money instead of having me deal with a bank teller or paying with ...

  7. Drop shipping - Wikipedia

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    Drop shipping is a form of retail business in which the seller accepts customer orders without keeping stock on hand. Instead, in a form of supply chain management, the seller transfers the orders and their shipment details either to the manufacturer, a wholesaler, another retailer, or a fulfillment house, which then ships the goods directly to the customer.

  8. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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    Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight[ 1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck, ship, train, aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.

  9. 3 Things You Pay For That Should Be Free (and Where They ...

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    Let’s look at two items in the U.S. that remain free — K-12 schools and public playgrounds. They have been mentioned by those who support bills to ban treating water as a commodity.