For me, it come down to the word "VALUE"....do you value your dealers, the ones you have bought from in the past, or notable visible dealers, (IMCA members, List members, consistent sellers, better than 98% feed back and OVER 50 positive feed back). Value meaning supporting good dealers that offer good prices and good service (and piece of mind) are a real value. Support your good service and goods providers and they will provide the value.
Supporting fly-by-night, or non confirmed sellers for a bargain hot 10 cents deal that costs a ton of shipping/handling/time to straighten out a mess is not a "VALUE" deal, and speculative at best.
Many fly-by-night sellers could care less what you have to pay them for shipping, especially when you are to tight with your money to spend more than 99 cents on a meteorite that should sell for tens of dollars. I do not feel sorry for those that really expect something for nothing and get skinned at trying. One plays one pays.
Support Value, support your good dealers.
Dave F. Happy New Year to all!
Tom AKA James Knudson wrote:
I don't get ebay, one well known over seas seller has a $25 shipping fee, that's fine, but if another seller sells an identical meteorite at the same starting price, but with $2 shipping, form what I have seen, the meteorites will sell for the same amount lets say $15 in the end, even though they have to pay $23 more in shipping, do they just not care what the shipping charges are?
Thanks, Tom peregrineflier <>< IMCA 6168 http://www.frontiernet.net/~peregrineflier/Peregrineflier.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "metlist" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:29 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] shipping
Hi! Well, the eBay shipping saga is finished and I am not completing the sale. He refused point blank to reconsider the shipping charges of $25 for a thumbnail specimen, but I did notice that on his new auctions he made 2 critical changes - one was to have a proper starting price (so he no
longer
has to sell as $65 for $1) and also much more plausible shipping charges. So, negative feedback all round!!!
Not a happy ending but he obviously did not want to nurture business like all of you (and me) want to.
Sometimes I am deeply saddened by the stupidity of Mankind....
best for the New Year!
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