posted on March 16, 2001 01:40:46 PM new
Personally i charge very close what it cost to ship. No profit there.
Kaneen
Boy did you miss my message here. What, Bidder has questions ? NOW ? OH OK. WELL...
What it boils down to is feedback and who learned the lesson here. Will seller change his wording on auctions ? That will depend on how he feels about the feedback. Will bidder take time to ask all to save a couple of bucks? That will depend on how tight he really is and how much time he has.
I still feel the seller is justified here. Everything is within reasonable boundries.
Also a little info for all:
You can not ship anything over 1lb first class. It will be considered priority mail. Basicall they are the same. If you ship something less than one pound via priorty mail, chances are it will be delivered in the same time frame as first class. The major difference is mainly the cost and the weight.
posted on March 16, 2001 02:00:57 PM new
Somebody complained about my "DO NOT GIVE DETAILS" comment.
Why is it that you people always want to get into my private dealings when it comes to S/H. It's none of your friggen business. If I state fixed $5 s/h take it or leave it. It's none of your busines why it's $5.
No one askes why the minumum bid is X dollars. It's OK to be private about that. But why all this nearly communistic attitude about S/H. I run a business and I set the prices. How I set prices is private info. This inlcudes my price for S/H.
posted on March 16, 2001 02:15:46 PM new
Why is it communistic for a consumer to know what they are spending their money on?
If a bidder wants to know how a package is shipped and I meet the demand by telling them in my TOS, then I am quite capitalistic and I am getting customers.
posted on March 16, 2001 04:21:11 PM new
The poster that brought up the point "Had the game sold for $20.00, $5.00 would not seem bad. "
That is true, except one gets the feeling that the seller knew it was not going to go for much from his first post
I posted it on E-Bay for 1.00 plus 5.00 shipping and handling. It was new....still sealed and had failed to sell at higher prices previously.
What this amounts to is how a seller does business on ebay. Are descriptions accurate, shipping prices reasonable, and seller appears professional.
I feel that it gives all ebay sellers a bad rep when certain sellers choose to find backhanded ways of making a buyer feel cheated.
In this case, the buyer did not ask the questions, you can be sure he learned from this. You ca be sure, if he still bids, other sellers will wonder why this guy is hostile to us.
However I am surprised that the seller was amazed enough by the buyer's reaction to start a thread on it.
~Not barrelracer on ebay, don't pick on them!~
posted on March 16, 2001 05:36:09 PM new
barrelracer
I have had many auctions not get a bid. Then when i reauction the item at a low price the bids go through the roof, and then some.
So your point was?
posted on March 16, 2001 06:00:57 PM new
barrelracer
Hmmm. Higher PRICES.
One would only assume you mean a little higher or?
Seems to me, AND with no disrespect or bad intentions that YOU are assuming alot here. This is however why we ended up here in the first place.
EVERYONE ON EARTH READS THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND DRAWS A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION.
Hopefully I can state my opinion without upsetting you.
When I'm a buyer (almost always a seller), I would expect shipping at a quality of $5.
I know that's a little ambiguous, but it's the way I think and the way I sell. I expect to get $5 worth of shipping, not the cheapest possible with the seller pocketing the rest. Maybe you spent $3.50 and packed the heck out of it. Maybe you spent $4.50, etc etc. But I want to feel $5 of value for the $5 I spent labeled as shipping and handling. Wouldn't you? No one wants to feel they didn't get their moneys worth.
We sell a lot of collectables, among them books that more valuable for their 'collectability' than for anything else. I charge $3 s/h. The shipping usually costs me about $2 because I use a heavy formidable box. We wrap, protect, bubble wrap etc.
After 100's of books, never have I had one person mention that the shipping charge was $1 more than what was on the box. On the contrary, probably 50-60% of my feedbacks mention the quality of shipping (and that's the truth). How well it was packed, so on and so forth. They feel they got $3 worth of shipping and then some.
I submit, as I am sure do some others, that people just want feel they got what they paid for. In your case your bidder did not feel that way, and personally I do not blame him. I wouldn't either. Now he's probably being a jerk about it, I certainly wouldn't agree with that. Try and separate that from the real issue.
When I ask this, I ask this from his perspective. He doesn't have our problems with fees, etc. Do you think he SHOULD feel that he got $5 worth of shipping for his $5?
[b]Seems to me, AND with no disrespect or bad intentions that YOU are assuming alot here. This is however why we ended up here in the first place.
EVERYONE ON EARTH READS THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND DRAWS A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION.[/b]
My thoughts exactly. So there is no sense arguing is there.
Like I said, no one has changed my mind.
If this seller doesn't know why the bidder is upset then he is clueless.
