On Sep 25, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Ron wrote:
Hmmmm, the good old days ..............
That 4mB of RAM really kicked some butt though and is probably still working in a compact somewhere.
$10 for something that can be shipped for basically nothing is a rip-off for sure. Package "Handling" has become a
quite a money maker in recent years. That's as bad as some of the Ebay sellers.
On the other hand, the shipper has to. . .
Find the right box. Get the right packing material or static-proof bags. Pack and seal. Print labels. Go to sleep knowing that sooner or later she'll spend an hour straightening out a bookkeeping error either she or her shipper will surely make.
Spend the money up front on postage, scales, tape and everything else she needs to have on hand. Not give an impatient purchaser the opening to ding her feedback with an impulsive whiff of screechiness.
You started selling on eBay thinking you could do it as effortlessly as Bob Newhart seemed to run his Bed and Breakfast. Now you realize that the only thing different about shipping postcards and engine blocks is the weight of hauling them from Point A to Point B. The overhead that goes into processing and tracking either one must reflect the actual time and materials expended. It is not necessarily proportional to the haulage fee.
A facilitation center can surely do it for less, but somebody has to pay for the equipment to eliminate all that tedious and time-consuming labor.
Shipping should be free on everything I get, but I'd like to be well paid for the time I spend shipping stuff to others.
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