An aquaintance actually told me that he did not receive his cards and was also NOT billed for shipping and handling. I’m thinking it was more likely an error on his part where he didn’t follow through to the final confirmation screen. As I say, it’s sort of like when you book a plane ticket through Travelocity, Orbitz or Expeda these days and you have to go past several screens offering you rental cars, hotels, travel insurance and so on. Or if you register a domain at GoDaddy you have to go through many pages asking if you want private registration, web hosting, domain parking, etc etc.

VistaPrint seems to have a similar profit model and you do need to page through all those things to actually get your order submitted.

A bit annoying, but still legit. I must say, of all of them, GoDaddy is the most annoying in my opinion, but that’s just me. I guess they pick up a lot of extra sales that way to make it worth annoying everyone who buys a domain.