Another E-Bay question. Shipping fees?

[mantleman]

I have encountered this twice. Both times it was dealers who live on the US/Canada border who were willing to ship in whatever country won. A simple border hop. One was between Windsor and Detroit, the other was Vancouver and a little city in Washington State.

Not a great business model, confusing listing, but it did work out that they only charged me for shipping within Canada $3-4.

Andy

[irv]

Thanks guys.

If I go ahead and contact the seller, can he, without issue, cancel our deal, or because I won them fairly, (despite his confusing ad) and the fact I am disputing his shipping fees, have some time to get this resolved?

Should I let E-Bay know or try and handle this myself first? Never been down this road so entering uncharted territory.

[irv]

Does this sound correct? $16.00 for Standard Int'l Shipping?

Shipping within Canada shouldn't be International should it, or is it just a blanket shipping fee that doesn't really take into account where you live or if you happen to live in the same country?

Standard Int'l Shipping
Est. delivery varies

[mantleman]

Don't be shy to contact the seller. Standard shipping for two cards varies depending on how you want them shipped. If its a plain white envelope for ungraded cards, the postage is only $1.50. If it a bubble mailer for graded cards, it can be up to $8.50.

It gets expensive after that, especially you want tracking.

Did the seller have it listed as Ebay Global Shipping, or just set up for standard shipping? Ebay Global Shipping to Canada is absolutely ridiculous. Usually works out to about $25 for $4 worth of cards because they have you prepay import/customs fees you rarely would have to pay anyway.

If it was standard shipping, the seller has the ability to alter the invoice after the sale, this cannot be done if it was Ebay Global Shipping.

Andy

[irv]

Originally Posted by mantleman

Don't be shy to contact the seller. Standard shipping for two cards varies depending on how you want them shipped. If its a plain white envelope for ungraded cards, the postage is only $1.50. If it a bubble mailer for graded cards, it can be up to $8.50.

It gets expensive after that, especially you want tracking.

Did the seller have it listed as Ebay Global Shipping, or just set up for standard shipping? Ebay Global Shipping to Canada is absolutely ridiculous. Usually works out to about $25 for $4 worth of cards because they have you prepay import/customs fees you rarely would have to pay anyway.

If it was standard shipping, the seller has the ability to alter the invoice after the sale, this cannot be done if it was Ebay Global Shipping.

Andy

Thanks Andy.

I did contact the seller and politely asked if I was reading that right, $16.00 dollars to ship 2 cards within Ontario?
He has not replied yet.

The 2 cards I won were both PSA graded. A 52 Topps and a 59 Fence Busters card so I could understand $5 to $8.00 dollars in the same bubble wrapper, but anymore than that, especially with both of us being close in Ontario, would be unreasonable.

His ad was very vague, (posted above in 1st ad in red) and no where did it say anything about Global shipping. If it did, I wouldn't have bid on it for the reasons you describe. I hate Global shipping.

Hopefully he replies and comes up with a better figure or at least explains why his fees are so expensive?

Thanks again for your help.

I appreciate it!

[irv]

Just received this reply


Dear XXXX,

Not within ontario. Should be less than 10 bucks. 7 sound ok?

Your previous message

Am I reading this right? You are charging me $16 dollars to ship 2 cards within Ontario?

Dale


Currently waiting for his invoice (I agreed with the $7 dollars) so hopefully no further snags?

Thanks again everyone.

I'll post when I receive my cards.

[D.P.Johnson]

Originally Posted by irv

Just received this reply


Dear XXXX,

Not within ontario. Should be less than 10 bucks. 7 sound ok?

Your previous message

Am I reading this right? You are charging me $16 dollars to ship 2 cards within Ontario?

Dale


Currently waiting for his invoice (I agreed with the $7 dollars) so hopefully no further snags?

Thanks again everyone.

I'll post when I receive my cards.

Bingo!
Good job Irv.
It's been my experience that if you ask most sellers questions that are simple and polite you'll normally get a positive response back.