E-Bay helps you hide fees. In the shipping calculater, there is a box to add
handling costs, which are not shown to the buyer. When they click on the
shipping cal. on the item age, they are quoted the shipping costs with the
handling charge included. E-bay informed me today that you can now print
USPO mailing labels, Handling added, but with no postage shown. I ship from
the middle of the country, and find that the UPS site quotes are a little
too high except to the west coast, and I have to add $2-3 to make it right.
The other side of the coin is shippers who want to do nothing to sell their
item. I wanted to bid on a batch of tractor parts, no shipping costs
mentioned. I guess that if I had bid and won, I would have been told it was
my problem to get them. I asked for the total costs and this is what the
seller e-mailed back:
"there are12 boxes all together, each box is 10"x14.5"x12", total weight is
144 lbs, freight would be less if you are not needing the boxes with the
part numbers on them, but i'm sure they would come in very handy, our postal
address is--- XXXXX, Canada, s0m 2t0, please go online to any courier or
trucking company of your choice to get a quote, thanks for the inquiry,
Marty."
They want me to make my own arrangements to have their items picked up and
shipped to me......Hope they enjoy them, I won't bid.
Ray Jones
Jones Ridge
Mena, AR 71953
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>From: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] eBay Prices have gone Stupid
>Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2004, 2:39 AM
>
>Beats me.
>
>The only time I would charge a handling fee is if I had to do major work to
>get someone the part they wanted. Like, all-day kind of work. Even then
>it's in advance. Big stuff I send UPS and I use their website to quote the
>prices - if you have the box measurements, weight, and origin/destination
>zip codes, you can get the exact cost without leaving the house. I might
>round up to the next dollar, but 50 cents or so is hardly a handling fee.
>Sometimes that bites me, but thats how things go.
>
>
>Sellers should not be able to hide fees with regard to shipping and
>handling. You might check with the eBay help boards for better details on
>the rules regarding that. Even so, you have to complain for any action to
>take place, ebay does little to enforce it's rules and I've found they are
>really selective about what rules apply to whom and when. It's like
>dealing with government.
>
>
>Bill K.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Charles Gedraitis" <dcg@xxxxxxx>
>To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:35 AM
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] eBay Prices have gone Stupid
>
>
>> I think the sellers are doing this. They caught on the easy way to make a
>> few extra bucks is to charge "shipping and handling". Nonsense I think.
>> Packing it up is part of the transaction as far as I'm concerned, and when
>> I sell something, I charge the actual cost, unless for some reason the
>> packing is rediculous.
>>
>> ~dave
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Larry Ashbaugh wrote:
>>
>> > Maybe I am cheap, but have eBay shipping prices gone stupid? I bid what
>I
>> > thought a couple things were worth for my 64 Fury and ForwardLook
>Coronets, and
>> > shipping prices are almost more than the item (not shown in the
>listing).
>> > These are small, not fragile items, and the shipping costs shown on the
>(used)
>> > boxes show the real shipping costs, and old newspaper sure isn't
>expensive. Are
>> > sellers making up for low bids by extensive padding of shipping costs
>(or am
>> > I just cheap)?
>> >
>> > LARRY
>> >
>>
>
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