peiklk
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posted on December 19, 2004 04:35:10 PM new
Had my item listed and sold via Fixed Price. Guy paid with the flat-rate shipping/handling I specified.
Then I get the email telling me that the amount he paid is enough to ship it UPS and all but ordering me to do so tomorrow and send him the UPS tracking number.
I rarely, if ever, use UPS... but I'm just amazed at the audacity of this guy, telling me what to do. ARGH! 
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"Bend over backward for the customer. Don't bend forward."
Bush/Cheney 2004 -- FOR AMERICA'S SAKE!
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stopwhining
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posted on December 19, 2004 04:37:59 PM new
count your blessing!
i just paid my seller,i deducted 3.00 shipping from 6.95 to 3.95.
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sthoemke
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posted on December 19, 2004 04:45:06 PM new
Tell him UPS will cost $5 extra handling because you will have to stand in line for at least 1/2 hour.
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glassgrl
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posted on December 19, 2004 04:53:10 PM new
I've got a newbie seller with 0 feedback that I bought two items from. Then he emails me saying they are out of one of them and what do I want to do?
What do I want? I want him to deliver the two items I paid for!
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peiklk
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posted on December 19, 2004 05:09:38 PM new
Well, with UPS, I just have to drop it at a local PakNShip type store. But I do have to provide a box for it -- I do mostly Priority Mail so I get free boxes.
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"Bend over backward for the customer. Don't bend forward."
Bush/Cheney 2004 -- FOR AMERICA'S SAKE!
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roadsmith
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posted on December 19, 2004 05:23:34 PM new
I would not give in on this one. Occasionally I over-estimate grossly on shipping costs for an item and will refund a dollar or two after shipping the item. But that's a very rare occurence.
Wouldn't it be great if Ebay cautioned newbies that shipping terms are not to be negotiated?
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peiklk
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posted on December 19, 2004 05:26:23 PM new
Yeah, I'm not giving in -- that was never in question.
Just couldn't believe his attitude.
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"Bend over backward for the customer. Don't bend forward."
Bush/Cheney 2004 -- FOR AMERICA'S SAKE!
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fenix03
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posted on December 19, 2004 06:35:01 PM new
:: i just paid my seller,i deducted 3.00 shipping from 6.95 to 3.95.::
Good thing no one here is your seller. Hopefully the one you have has the good sense to return your payment and demand that you live up to the commitment you make when you place a bid.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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stopwhining
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posted on December 19, 2004 08:07:42 PM new
oh yeah!!
he is thanking me for my bid,what do you say,fenix??
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fenix03
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posted on December 19, 2004 09:14:52 PM new
That he is an idiot and that both of you are among a sellers worst nightmare. You seem to think you can dictate your own terms to people and that twit is letting you get away with it which just makes you believe that you are somehow in the right.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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sanmar
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posted on December 20, 2004 10:14:18 AM new
Stopwhining; what gives you the right to decide how much the shipping charges should be? If I were thre seller, I wouldn't ship until I received the total amount. I just bought 3 orders of Omaha Steaks. The shipping was $9.99 per order. One went to NJ & the other 2 to WA. Do you think they would ship if I only paid them $6.00 per shipment? I don't think so.
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
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classicrock000
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posted on December 20, 2004 11:39:07 AM new
I agree with Fenix and Sanmar-Im not debating if he was trying to rip you off for the shipping-alot of sellers do that.But when you bid you agree to the selling price AND shipping terms.If you think the shipping is too high you shouldnt have bid.
[ edited by classicrock000 on Dec 20, 2004 11:39 AM ]
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peiklk
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posted on December 27, 2004 08:56:10 PM new
Well, I went ahead and shipped the item USPS. Oddly, it took two days to get to a rural location in the same state -- and then he didn't pick it up at his local P.O. until the THIRD DAY.
SO HE NEGS ME for slow shipping! I shipped the very first day after he paid and the USPS got it there before Christmas.
And he keeps emailing me with these longwinded messages about how I am a horrible seller because I didn't honor his shipping requests, blah blah blah.
I've told him to stop sending me email or I would report him for harrassment. Is there an address at ebay I can do this?
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"Bend over backward for the customer. Don't bend forward."
Bush/Cheney 2004 -- FOR AMERICA'S SAKE!
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miscellany03
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posted on December 27, 2004 10:02:56 PM new
I hope that you neg him back and add him to your BBL. Sounds like a real pill!
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ebayvet
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posted on December 27, 2004 10:22:41 PM new
This is the reason why I will not leave feedback first anymore. What a moron! I would neg back, let him think about it for a day and place an offer to withdraw feedback.
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Roadsmith
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posted on December 27, 2004 10:25:40 PM new
ebayvet: What's the procedure for mutually removing feedback? Where would you go first, in Ebay's vast land?
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ewora
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posted on December 28, 2004 12:03:38 AM new
https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=1&pUserId=&co_partnerId=2&siteid=0&ru=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedback.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws1%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FMFWRequest&pageType=1910
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powerwebmedia
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posted on December 28, 2004 06:11:30 AM new
When I'm buying, I always check the shipping price first. If it's resonable and I really want the item, then I bid on it. Even if the shipping is slightly more than than actual.
But, if the shipping is something like $5 or $9 "shipping and handling" and I know darn well it will go with less than a dollar's postage, I don't bother.
I know we as sellers have to pay for tape, packing supplies, gas to drive to the post office, eBay fees, PayPal fees, etc, but it's all part of the price of doing business. I make sure there's enough profit in the item to cover expenses. Large mail order companies seem to be able to get away with charging a big handling fee, but for some reason eBay buyers won't put up with it.
On a sidenote, for a couple of weeks I added the shipping price to the item's opening bid and advertised free shipping (worked out the the same as the regular price plus shipping). Didn't go over to well. I went back to the regular price plus the shipping being extra, and all was good again.
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ebayvet
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posted on December 28, 2004 08:16:04 AM new
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MFWRequest
It's a pretty easy process, both have to agree to do it, and they have 90 days or something like that to decide
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Roadsmith
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posted on December 28, 2004 08:50:56 AM new
Thanks, you two. Sometimes I wish I could take the time to explore EVERYthing Ebay has in its bag of tricks. I seem to just go to the same parts of Ebay I always use and miss a lot in the process.
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