Agreed. Wonder if they teach that as a Money Making Technique in those
'Learn To Sell On E-Bay' classes.
I made the mistake of broaching this subject with the FM (Fred Miranda)
digiphoto group a while back and discovered that a number of the members
considered themselves 'ebay merchants'. They lectured me for the remainder
of the thread about how expensive it is to do business through ebay, how
expensive shipping materials and time are, etc.
I let ebay sellers know when I find their shipping costs out of line. I
tell them that I'm interested in what they are offering, but will not bid
because of the shipping cost. Of those that respond some offer lectures
similar to those of the FM group and some offer a more reasonable rate. In
fact, that just happened. We won two items from the same seller and she
kindly charged shipping only once. It's certainly worth asking for a lower
rate.
ScottGee1
On 6/15/05, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think many are using the shipping charge as a guaranteed minimum for
> themselves which allows them to post the starting price of the auction
> at a low level. Those of us who have learned to pay close attention to
> shipping costs, however, will simply factor that into the total price we
> are willing to pay. It does require attention though to avoid being
> burned on some of them.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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