Neil - You can always email the seller prior to the end of the auction asking him what the shipping charges are. I do that and have people ask me on items that I'm selling. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "eastern sierra Adj Services" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:38 AM Subject: [FWDLK] Shipping & handling/FWDLK items > I don't claim to be an Ebay wizard, so I happened to learn something, > today, that I'm sure "all" you already know, but , anyway; > > one reason why an Epay seller 'demands' an exhorbitant, or excessive > amount of "shipping & handling/packaging" expense is because THAT amount > is NOT subject to the payment/charge for Ebay "fees". > > Sellers, can, and do, "give-away" some FWDLK items, but they make their > profit on Ebay-fee-free mailing- charges. > > That's why, at times (I now realize!) a seller has been reluctant to > 'negotiate' his mailing-charges---THOSE are his profit-margin! > > YEAH, I know; I always check-out an item's > "mailing-charges", when I'm interested in it; I just didn't realize WHY > those 'costs' were so important, to the seller. > > Neil Vedder > > ************************************************************* > > To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to > http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1 ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1
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