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Subject: 
Re: Where is everything going?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.market.services
Date: 
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:05:42 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Thomas Stangl writes:
How can you expect someone to tell you the shipping costs up front, unless
they give a flat fee that will most likely overcharge you?  Especially with
the new USPS rates hitting July 1.

Well, the internet's free ride is well over then isn't it?  I am very
unlikely to pay $30 total for an item at $20 with an additional s&h of $10.

Sometimes I order rarer or "hard to find in quantity" elements from Europe
via Bricklink and the shipping charges really sting, but at least I go into
it knowing it's a possibility.  I think the other poster was merely pointing
out the need to know in advance all the financial requirements of the
implied contract of sale on an internet site.  I could actually see where
failure to state such information could easily be a deal breaker, and maybe
even a legally protected deal breaker.

How can a contract, whose terms are vague, be enforceable?

-- Hop-Frog



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(...) How can you expect someone to tell you the shipping costs up front, unless they give a flat fee that will most likely overcharge you? Especially with the new USPS rates hitting July 1. I mean, I could list "$10 shipping in the continental US" (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.services)

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