[Marchillo]

There's a local promoter I do a bunch of business with on autograph items. Mostly mini helmets for current player signings. He's pretty reasonably priced. Usually he's willing to wheel and deal a bit. Anyways he started this new silent bid thing over email over the past few weeks (which there's no real way to gauge the legitimacy besides him being a trustworthy promoter) and I won an autograph ball of a deceased hof baseball player. Fantastic price at $35. So I send him the $35 and he emailed me a "sorry if I didn't mention it but shipping is $9". I look back at all the silent auction emails and no mention of shipping costs anywhere. I realize shipping isn't free but adding on 25% more unexpectedly kind of stinks. I guess I'll pay the $9 but do I say something? I anticipate doing business in the future with him. He is a good guy in the dirty autograph business but it still irks me a bit. What would other people do? When buying anything I really factor in the extra costs. Even last purchase with him I arranged meeting up with him at a show to avoid the shipping. But that's not gonna be possible in this instance.

Thanks - Steve