complicated shipping requirements?

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   I use version  3.51a   and I want to set up some really specific shipping options. 
For the most part, I have flat rate shipping on everything - one price for everyone in the US, one price for everyone internationally. 

But there are a few items that I ship which are so heavy that I need to create a higher shipping price just for those items, otherwise, I actually lose money on the sale. 

So what I've done is set a shipping weight on those specific products at 5 pounds. none of the other products in the store have any weight listed.

then, I set up new shipping settings using weight as the determining factor. I did one for 4-6 pounds in the US and one for 4-6 pounds International. 
I was hoping that since I have these certain items set at 5 pounds, when someone checks out, it would return the rate that I specified for 4-6 pounds.

But these rates aren't showing when I do a test run. 

What am I doing wrong?! 

Thanks all! 

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lo9191 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15-November-2012 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote lo9191 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: complicated shipping requirements? Posted: 15-November-2012 at 7:10pm
	I use version 3.51a and I want to set up some really specific shipping options. For the most part, I have flat rate shipping on everything - one price for everyone in the US, one price for everyone internationally. But there are a few items that I ship which are so heavy that I need to create a higher shipping price just for those items, otherwise, I actually lose money on the sale. So what I've done is set a shipping weight on those specific products at 5 pounds. none of the other products in the store have any weight listed. then, I set up new shipping settings using weight as the determining factor. I did one for 4-6 pounds in the US and one for 4-6 pounds International. I was hoping that since I have these certain items set at 5 pounds, when someone checks out, it would return the rate that I specified for 4-6 pounds. But these rates aren't showing when I do a test run. What am I doing wrong?! Thanks all!