After suffering a minor collision, I started shopping for a tail light assembly, rear wheel flair, mud flap, and the rear bumper cover/facia. I settled on wholesalemopar.com as the other two online parts dealers did not show the tail light assembly available. Anyhow due to the oversize box for the bumper cover, the shipping came to $191.00 making the total order amount of $527.00. I went to my local Jeep dealer an ordered everything, with tax, at a cost of $385.00.

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TWO Identical 2005 Liberty Sport CRDS
#1 CRD, 174,000 miles. Eco tune, Samco hoses. Mobil1 0-40w used since day one
#2 CRD 143,000 miles. Bought used (unknown history) with 100,000 miles. Samco hoses.
Eco tune, new rockers, and 5 volt glow plugs installed at 124,000 miles

Yep that shipping can eat into the margin for oversize items or even small items. It cost stoutdog about the same to go to a dealer to replace a bad air box to turbo hose as it would have cost to order and ship.

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Sold to LOST member my 05 Ltd, GDE Stg II turbo + TCM tune, SunCoast TC w. Transgo kit, Steiger window regulators, Samcos, Fumoto valve, 2nd gen filter head with Lub. Spec. bleeder, Hayden clutch & 11 blade fan, inverted spare, P-1 battery, BF Goodrich Long Trail TAs, Etecno1 glow plugs, timing belt at 50K miles/8 yrs

Many online vendors will show an attractive price for an item and then load their profit into the shipping.
Some will make you go through the checkout process to find the total cost.

When using Google to search for an item, often the search results will be swamped with hits on Amazon resellers, who are all referring to the same item on Amazon. Vendors such as "Milly's_budgie_and_ parakeet_bazaar" may be shown in the Google search results as a seller of Jeep Parts, if Milly is an Amazon reseller. Someone needs to develop a filter to eliminate these Amazon resellers from Google search results.

Then there are the vendors who have 50 websites all offering the same part at the same price.