Shipping and handling - how much is too much?

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Posted By: Misunderstimated (Brian H)

"Out of line?" Yes, probably.... But I assume you figured the shipping into your bidding so its really just a matter of what you call the money you paid. The other difference is whether eBay took a share. Over the past few years eBay has done a good job (at least from its perspective) in fighting this practice by making the reasonableness of shipping charges -- measured in terms of the actual postal cost -- a concern for buyers even though it should make no difference to the informed buyer whether the disclosed shipping charge is greater than the postal cost. Sellers, as Jodi's post demonstrates, incur other costs in shipping an item besides the amount of money paid to the post office.