Marc, You clearly have some strong feeling on this topic. I however am 100%
aligned with Tom on this one. On eBay, I charge only actual shipping costs
when I sell. My wife sells a lot of little inexpensive items, so she just
charges a small flat rate to cover average shipping and packaging costs for
simplicity's sake. It might be different if I was running a real online
business, but on ebay I'm selling old stuff that would never find a local
buyer (like with Craigslist), so I consider the effort a cost of doing eBay
business, and it's done out of a desire to help out fellow car enthusiasts,
since most my items have been old car stuff.
BTW... FedEx ground is the best
for shipping larger, heavy stuff that gets REAL expensive via USPS and even
UPS.
Stephen
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
wrote:
> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re:
[Tigers] ebay problem
> To: "Thomas Witt" <atwittsend@verizon.net>,
tigers@autox.team.net
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 9:22 PM
> At 09:05 PM
9/7/2009, Thomas Witt
> wrote:
> >>>>Try SELLING and learn
> something.<<<
> >
> >Actually I have sold 60-80 items on Ebay. In every
> instance I have only
>
>charged the - actual shipping cost. I never
> charged for the box, packaging
> >material, my time, my gas etc.. If there were
> instances where the
estimate
> >was over cost I sent that back to the buyer. I've
> delivered
items locally
> >to buyers and refunded the full shipping cost Ebay
> forces
them to pay with
> >Paypal. Why? I'd prefer to treat people the way I
> would
like to be
> treated.
> >
> >My post already addressed "reasonable" charges
above
> shipping. In Michael's
> >case he was charged over $14 for a poorly
packed item
> that had a $3
> shipping
> >cost. I don't see the justification
of the
> additional $11.
> >
> >Ebay is full of sellers that sell a $30 item
for 99
> cents and $28.99
> >shipping. And, shipping is rarely (if ever)
>
refundable. That rips the tax
> >payer off if the seller is claiming 99 cents
worth of
> sale. The seller is
> >ripping the buyer off with no practical
recourse for a
> refund.
>
> Plumbers in this area charge $40 an hour. If I
> have to stand in line for half an hour at the
> Post Office, why not charge
$20 for the privilege?
>
> You, sir, are being grossly unreasonable. I will
> cheerfully pay for proper service. I am not some
> sort of cheapskate
gipster who wants to cheat the seller,
> as you seem to be.
>
> Marc
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