RE: Shipping Costs

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If you're only selling three products, and that's all you will ever be selling, you could write a custom shipping module that would check which product it is via the product_id and count the quantity.  Then it just spits out the required amount.  If you look at the existing shipping modules you can see how they calculate the quantit, etc.  If there are going to be more than three products, but they are only in three different groups, you could add a check box or drop down menu on the product page and designate which group it belongs to.  This would only be on the admin side so it's invisible to the customer.  Then the shipping module would just check to see which groups it's in, check the quantity, and spit out the amount.  The only problem I see is if they order 3 of product 1, 1 of product 2, and 5 of product 1.  You should be able to modify flat.php or one of the other shipping modules to work.  Just an idea.