That's a great point. I know that I disabled that feature a while ago because it was causing some kind of problem, but since I forgot what that was, I just enabled it again. Edit... I remember now. People were picking something in the dropdown menu thinking it would stick through the entire checkout process and it doesn't. Displaying is probably the lesser of two evils, but I know I was incorrectly accused of bait and switch a couple times.Don't go by the initial shipping estimate. IIRC you can't get to the shipping options until you enter payment info, but in all my past orders, I've been presented with significantly cheaper options than what was originally suggested, and for me in CT, a final total competitive with the "big boys".
Bobby, if you could let shoppers see the actual shipping options and costs before entering a CC#, you may not scare off some potential customers.