Shipping!!!!!!

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Posted By: keyway

What is with some of the shipping costs on ebay. A guy wants $13.95 to ship a $10.00 card. I refuse to deal with these people. Wrote him and he said the shipping cost they had down was right. What a joke.

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Posted By: Matt

He can charge whatever he wants for shipping and we as buyers should factor that into the purchase price. In other ebay categories it's common to see items listed with a $9.99 buy it now and $100+ shipping charges. To be fair, some sellers have high fixed shipping prices but they include insurance and assume the card will sell for a few hundred dollars; the best thing to do as a seller is to calculate the insurance off the final price.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Matt

Actually, ebay rules prevent excessive shipping charges http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-shipping.html as they reduce ebay's commission

Max

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Posted By: Matt

Max - I'm not saying it's OK - I'm just saying it's common practice on ebay and I've never heard of ebay doing anything about it. It certainly is not what a seller with integrity would do save for the case I mentioned.

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Was it a particularly heavy card?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

If the card weighs 30 pounds it would still only cost $8 in a flat rate priority box. You can ship bricks for $8 in a flat rate box if you wish.

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Posted By: Steve

Don't buy from him.


Steve

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Posted By: Fred C

Here's an example of shipping costs that will affect ebays profits:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190193843531&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=009

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Posted By: barrysloate

$100 shipping. That's pretty funny. Maybe he plans to deliver the card in person to the winner.

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

I would have a hard time justifying bidding on items that have shipping fees that are geared towards circumventing ebay's fees. 

If a seller is willing to rip off ebay they are just as likely to rip off me.

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Posted By: Russ Bright

it used to be a common practice to have things selling for a penny and paying 20 dollars shipping - that way the sellers got around the "final value fee" and Ebay got screwed out of their money - not that i cared that Ebay was losign money, but there were a lot of people as well who thought they were getting great deals and ended up paying more than something was worth -

I have people complain about my shipping ($3.50) all the time - and i explain that I use a padded envelope ($1) and paypal shipping with confirmation (1.50 or more + .18 for confirmation) and then gas to and from the post office/mail box - that generally helps -

my wife just started selling on ebay recently and had a guy ask if she could make shipping any cheaper - shipping was $2.00 - really, if you just want me to throw it in a white envelope with a stamp and pray, sure...

I have found some great deals that i passed on because i felt shipping was too high

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Posted By: Steve

Russ you can get your mailers much cheaper, I pay around 20 cents each.

I buy 100 at a time. And if you are using Paypal shipping you can have your mail man pick them up.

Steve