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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote:
> TWS Garrison wrote:
>
> > My major irritant at Ebay is sellers who won't tell you upfront how much
> > shipping will be, what forms of payment they accept, or even what they're
> > selling. . .
>
> 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" on most of my small lots
> to be sure I don't lose more on shipping than I make on the lot, but I doubt people
> would bid on a $20 lot with $10 shipping.
>
> Payment types and what they're selling, I can understand. Requiring shipping costs
> up front, I can't.
I don't expect to be told shipping from Somalia to Suriname, but shipping
within the seller's home country should be an easily known quantity, and
should be stated. For example, when I buy a thirty year old magazine I'm
willing to pay $5 for it. If the seller has slipped it into a padded
envelope, put it on the scale at the post office, and hit "media mail" he
can tell me how much it should be, and I can bid accordingly. Even if he
just tells me how he will ship it, I can tell whether or not to bid at all
by whether he's shipping media or priority (although my bid may not be as
high as it would be if I knew exactly how much). If I don't know, I may
not bother to bid (especially since Ebay has made it so much harder to ask
sellers questions).
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
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