We want to be an online patch store that offers you the lowest prices on our collection of, Ivamis brand, embroidered patches you can sew or iron on to your jackets, vests or hats. In order to offer you guys the lowest prices there are somethings we don't do that you may be used to when shopping online.
We don’t do free shipping! First off, there is no such thing as free shipping. Every company has to pay for shipping. If there is a store offering you free shipping you can 100% be assured that the price of shipping is included in the price of the product. We tried the free shipping gimmick for a while. All the patches you find here at our site for $3.99 used to be $4.99 with free shipping. What’s the cost of shipping? Well at the time of writing this article we offer $1 envelope shipping for small orders containing up to 6 small patches that we can fit in a stamped envelope. The stamp costs us 60 cents. Credit card transaction fees costs us 30 cents per transaction minimum, the envelope, the application instructions card, the printing costs runs another 10 cents. Costs us a dollar and all we ask is a non refundable $1 to ship your order.
We don’t accept paypal. Why? Simply put, over the course of the years Paypal has upped their processing fees to a point where we just said enough. They charge 50 cents per transaction fee and a 3.5% fee. But wait there is more! If you refund a paypal transaction, they do not refund the 3.5% fee they charge us. Upon asking them why, they told us that was the industry standard (it’s not the standard by the way). We find that unfair and we will not accept Paypal because of that. We used to, but no more. We just got sick and tired of receiving an email from Paypal every 6 months on how their new fees were going to rise. We accept Apple Pay, Google Pay and Braintree credit card processing. They are as safe as it gets when processing online payments. We don’t get to see your card numbers, we don’t store your card numbers, non of your credit card processing takes place on our servers. Why use Paypal when you can use your credit card and win points?You do not have to worry about your card number being compromised by us.
We don’t do free returns. If you bought something you are welcome to return it if you don’t like it. Our prices would have been significantly higher if we offered free returns. To keep our prices low we just cannot offer this service. You can pick any carrier you like to return your items. 95% of products we sell are small patches that can be returned back to us using a stamped envelope.
So you might ask yourself, why should I buy something here instead of going to Amazon? You are welcome to go to Amazon. You’ll find most our patches on there. You’ll also end up paying more for them. If you want to pay less, do it right here at TheCheapPlace.com. We have been selling patches since 2009. Over 50% of our business is repeat business. We take care of our customers and our customers take care of us. When you call us, you won’t have to press 1 for English or be placed on hold for an hour. If we can’t answer your call, just leave us a message, we call everyone back the same day as long as you call before 5pm EST.
Hope you have a lovely experience browsing our site. RIDE SAFE and Take care. Erhan The Patch Guy from www.TheCheapPlace.com
