Ebay has a shipping calculator where the seller puts in his zip code, the weight of the shipment, the mode of shipping (the speed to send it out) and the calculator will supply the potential bidder the exact shipping cost.....try it some time, it is pretty close to actual 90% of the time with what I sell.
Always be sure to request an invoice of actual shipping weight on combined items (always ask about combined shipping if it isn't stated in the auction) to save a few dollars on only paying ins. and delivery confirmation once, and I never ship anything with out insurance and delivery confirmation. It is stated in my auctions in numerous places and still, 10% can't read.
Dave F. mjwy
Walter Branch wrote:
Hi Tom and list,
Just returned from a nice vacation to Tennessee and North Carolina. Picked up a rare meteorite in the Great Smoke Mountians called "snowangel." check it out:
http://www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/snowangel.jpg
and the strewnfield:
http://www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/strewn.jpg
do they just not care what the shipping charges are?
Yes, that is it. It's called "psychology." People disregard shipping and "handling" charges for the most part.
I don't.
BTW, whoever invented the term "handling" as a charge was a marketing genius. Imagine paying for someone to actually handle your merchandise.
Similarly, whoever thought of adding .95 or .99 to the end of a holler amount was also a marketing genius!
I see lots of micromounts on ebay which I would like to add to my collection but I don't bother because of the excessive shipping fees.
Overcharging for shipping is older than ebay. Doing so insures that the ebay and paypal fees are paid and in many cases, such as the example here, adds profit.
I almost always pass over any auction which doesn't list shipping fees or give some indication of shipping fees. If I am really interested in item, I will ask the seller to give me an idea as to shipping. Many times, the selller does not respond so I just pass the auction by.
Hoping everyone has a great 2005!
-Walter Branch
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom AKA James Knudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "metlist"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] shipping
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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