holy mackerel - I agree with Randall !!!!!!
I think that Randall is reasonably correct on this. There has to be
something about the planets being in alignment.
but listen.. when I ship. I charge a single fee - $8 in the USA etc.
I myself think is the right thing to do because one thing for sure,
when I sell multiple items to one seller - it may cost me a little
more to ship the package, however the benefit of being able to ship
many items to one buyer negates the need for me to send multiple
buyers a single item and thusly eliminates the work of making
multiple packages.
the math is simple to me... I save time and so the buyer saves money.
Of course this may be different if I am selling hardcover books & the
like because the weight issue really moves up there. But I rarely
sell a box of stuff that needs to be shipped weighing 20 pounds, or
even just 10.
it takes myself or my girlfriend roughly 5-10 minutes to make a
package (depends on what kind of package needs to be made)
However it takes only a few seconds or 1 minute to find an item that
sold unless I have to look through multiple areas (believe it or not,
my stuff is not in order. I do have to find it - but it is in a
general area- this shelf or that shelf). So to pack 10 lobby cards to
different buyers will take a couple hours probably. To pull 10 lobby
cards for one buyer & make one package takes 10-20 minutes total and
I have saved very much of my VALUABLE TIME that could be used listing
more auctions
I might understand sometimes adding a nominal handling fee to each
extra item, but why do it in light of saved time?? Rotman auctions
used to charge $1 handling fee for each item and sometimes when I
bought 30 items one week, the shipping /handling became $45, but I
more than saved that on my bids anyway, so I just kept it in mind when bidding
I can assure everyone of one thing however.. I absolutely will not
allow anyone to do what that seller is doing to Walter Rueben and if
anyone sees such or is victim of such on MoviePosterBid I want to
know about it & I will correct that problem so fast that the need for
discussion will be eliminated. I also asked Walter to please let me
know who it is so I can be looking out for him if he ever signs up
thanks
Rich===========================
At 03:13 PM 8/27/2006, Randall Petersen wrote:
2) You will leave 13 NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS for him. 13 negative
feedbacks will send *any* seller's rating into the toilet, even if
he has hundreds of positives.
I believe that is incorrect. It's my understanding that 13 negatives
from the same buyer will only count as ONE hit on the seller's
feedback score. And I know this to be true with positive feedback.
Basically, once you've left a particular seller one positive and one
negative feedback, all your future feedbacks to that seller are
meaningless in terms of affecting their percentage score. Makes it
much harder to hurt someone badly. Or conversely, much harder for a
seller to artificially build up positive feedback artificially by
bidding on thousands of their own items with another ebay ID.
Sorry, but the approach of saying "Shipping for the first card is
$8, add ONLY $1 for each additional card." is exactly how I ran my
pulp auctions on eBay and it is a perfectly good approach, not a rip-off.
I was sure this would get a rise out of someone. Sorry back at you,
but I still consider it to be just another way sellers gouge buyers
on shipping. No matter how you try and justify it, the incremental
cost of shipping each additional card will never be a dollar, or
anything close to it. Therefore, the seller is making an
(admittedly small) amount of additional profit from shipping for
each additional item the buyer buys, which fits my definition of
gouging. And in the process, punishing his or her most enthusiastic customers.
Obviously the situation is totally different for items that weigh
more than lobby cards do.
The most reasonable way to charge shipping, imo, is to create ranges
based on the number of items purchased, that reflect REAL
differences in the cost of postage and time taken to put an order
together. For example, $8 for 1-10 cards, $12 for 10-20 cards, and so on.
As far as my example being an extreme one, that is simply not the
case, particularly with lobby cards. If a seller is offering one
card that I'm interested in, he's probably offering dozens more that
I'm also interested in. And I'm hardly the only person who buys this
way. As an example, one need only check the recent sci-fi lobby
card auctions from 'brianf1242' to see that only a handful of people
have purchased the majority of his several hundred card collection.
Now, having said all that, I certainly don't consider the 'each
additional card for a buck' approach to be the worst type of
shipping gouging around. And I've definitely bought many many
pieces from sellers who use this approach, although I am less
inclined to bid high on multiple pieces under these circumstances.
At the other end of the spectrum, of course, are sellers like da
Bruce. Last week, I won 21 of his primo cards, for a total cost of
over $2500. My shipping charge? Ten bucks. I'm not suggesting
that everyone do this, but from a buyer's perspective, it's great.
Randy
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