I can't get any shipping to work the way I want. Basically I want to charge $5 for shipping on the first item, $2 each additional item.

Table rate didn't work, it charge $5 regardless of how many items. I did set table rate to per item calculation. However during Google Checkout, it says Table: Vary by Weight/Price.

Here are my settings:

Table Rate

Enable Table Method
True

Shipping Table
1:5.00,2:7.00,3:9.00,4:11.00, 5:13.00,6:15.00,7:17.00,8:19.00, 9:21.00,10:23.00,11:25.00,12:27.00, 13:29.00,14:31.00,15:33.00,16:35.00

Table Method
item

Handling Fee
0

Tax Class
--none--

Tax Basis
Shipping

Shipping Zone
--none--

Sort Order
0

Then I figured maybe I could work around this by doing per item and setting a handling fee. It should work basically the same:

Per Item

Enable Item Shipping
True

Shipping Cost
2.00

Handling Fee
3

Tax Class
--none--

Tax Basis
Shipping

Shipping Zone
--none--

Sort Order
0

However all this does is make shipping $3.00 regardless of the number of items. Has anyone got this working, and did you have to do anything special? Am I missing something?