Do you leave negative feedback for excessive shipping?

[begsu1013]

did you ever notice that he actually got the rib for free?

[Laxcat]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

did you ever notice that he actually got the rib for free?

Ha. Yeppers. Makes it an even better analogy for eBay!

[D. Bergin]

This guy undercharged me for shipping. Charged me two bucks, and it cost him $3.22 to ship out. Unfortunately he only used about 3 cents in supplies.

Big stack of unique paper items, lost in the bottom of a sort bin, somewhere in the USPS postal system.

Wish he'd charged me 10 bucks and packed it so it would have actually made it to me in one piece.

[Laxcat]

That's a different story. He wasn't trying to make money off of shipping. He is just an idiot. Also, do you assign any blame to USPS? I would. They took money to transport one item from one place to another. Regardless of contents or shipping material, shouldn't they be able to do that ONE simple thing. Did you purchase insurance on the stuff?

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Laxcat

That's a different story. He wasn't trying to make money off of shipping. He is just an idiot. Also, do you assign any blame to USPS? I would. They took money to transport one item from one place to another. Regardless of contents or shipping material, shouldn't they be able to do that ONE simple thing. Did you purchase insurance on the stuff?

Guy knew he screwed up and refunded me right away. I got a great deal on the lot so would have much rather had the items. I didn't ding him. Just felt really bad about some great vintage material being destroyed.

No, I didn't blame USPS. If you saw the way it was packaged, there was no way it was ever going to make it to me in one piece. Especially seeing that he shipped it "Media Mail".

At least 2 lb's of loose paper items, stuffed into a plain white envelope, very little if any tape, and a mailing label which consisted of a single piece of copy paper barely scotch taped to the top of the package. I was shocked the mailing label even survived to get the empty envelope to the right address.

If the USPS have any blame along the way, it's perhaps that they never should have accepted the package to begin with, but he printed out the mailing label himself, so he could have easily just tossed it in a Mail Deposit box. Once it was in the system, it had no chance.

[Exhibitman]

Above a certain price I sell with free domestic shipping. Saves me the hassles of dealing with pissy buyers over a few centavos. And I recycle all the envelopes and boards and card holders I receive from my buys so my cost is postage and tape. Environmentally friendly and economical.

If a shipping cost is disclosed up front I factor it into the deal same as a BP from an AH

I will ding a seller for poor packing and if he won't combine shipping charges.

[xplainer]

I'd like to add this to the thread...

How big a boy are you?
How do I get to where you're at?
You going to be there all day?