Shipping charges only apply to buyers who wish to take advantage of the SR escrow system - it is basically a fee to cover the pain in the ass of having my float tied up for two weeks, as I try to run a fairly tight ship inventory-wise and I have to draw things out more when there is a few grand floating out in the bitcoin ether.If you want to take advantage, I have a 5% discount off of the listing price PLUS free shipping for direct-buy customers. Details are on my profile page.