Vocabulary development

Archive · #1 12-22-2003, 07:41 PM

Posted By: Jeff S

I'm sure we've all been miffed from time to time when a seller charges far more for shipping than actual cost.

Well, eBay user "dagoross" has coined a term to describe those who engage in this practice:

Postal rapist.

...almost makes postal groping seem okay, by comparison...

Archive · #2 12-22-2003, 07:51 PM

Posted By: Hankron

For flat items like 8x10" photos, I charge a flat $5 shipping charge. Once in a while someone asks why I charge $5 when my shipping cost is $3.85 (cost of a USPO priority box). I tell them that the day my shipping cost is $3.85, is the day that someone has invented a priority mail box that walks itself to the Post Office and stands inline by itself for 15 minutes.

Archive · #3 12-22-2003, 08:26 PM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

but the cheap ones as well.

Archive · #4 12-22-2003, 09:11 PM

Posted By: Hankron

I don't mind bargain hunters (being one myself), but dislike penny pinchers. Once a woman, who had just won a small photo and was decidedly unhappy with my $3 shipping charge, told me that she would only pay the exact shipping cost of 32 cents. I said, "If you insist, but me sticking a 32 cent stamp and writing your address on the photo will reduce the value."

Archive · #5 12-25-2003, 07:58 AM

Posted By: Harry

As long as the seller posts the shipping charges in his auction, I could care less what he charges. Whether the shipping is $1 or $10, I just take it into consideration on my final bid.