The S & H scam.

America's most successful con game can be summed up in two letters S and H. Shipping and handling is making lots of "entrepreneurs" wealthy. All they have to do is come up with a crappy product, promote it on cable tv, and then offer two with "separate shipping and handling." Of course the shipping and handling is the real profit motive. Something that would cost two bucks to mail now has a "shipping" cost of $7.50, order two and pay $15.00. The handling part of course requires someone to put in a box and slap on a label (they could just as easily toss in two) a procedure that takes all of one minute, if that. Of course you also have to pay for  the item, which is probably worth about a fifth of what it cost you. So you see the real money is in the S and H, which ironically are the first two letters of...