EBAY Shipping Question

[mcap100176]

Andrew -
No I am not the seller. Check out item 320381474418. That is the one I looked at and commented on.

And, for full disclosure, my Ebay ID is mcap10

Michael

[tiger8mush]

If you decide to pay for the outrageous shipping charges, pay for each auction individually with a different paypal account (friends/family in the area) so they are all different shipping addresses.

[T2069bk]

for insurance because it is of course not covered in the $14.90!! (Are the insurance fees per card as well?)

[laserbeemer]

I never heard back from the seller. I did get on my EBAY page and clicked on pay for these items. When it came up the shipping had been reduces to $4.90 for each card. So I went ahead and paid the $24.50 shipping. I will wait and see if and when I get the cards. I only decided to pay because I did not pay close enough attention. No were in the listing does he state that they will combine shipping or not combine shipping. Once the cards arrive I will decide then, on whether I dink them on the star system.

[JamesGallo]

That is just insane, there is no way anyone can give a legit reason for having such a high shipping cost. IMO even with a handling charge that is outragous.

I sell a ton of stuff and I try to keep my shipping as low as possible, I add a bit for packing supplies and what not but I don't pull any of this crap about gas or time etc.

5 raw, graded or whatever cards can be shipped priority mail for $6. Insurance wouldn't even be that much more.

I just bought a few cards and the guy went penny for penny and total me that top loaders cost him .20. Give me a break this is a cost of selling cards and should be factored into that. Some people are just unreasonable.


James G

[HexsHeroes]

I've got to agree with mcap100176, and disagree with the majority of you fine collectors.

I agree the shipping cost is excessive, for the method used, but it only emphasizes the importance of reading the details. No; I am not an attorney. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.

Poor humor aside, there have been many eBay auctions that I've passed on either because the value of the item did not merit the excessive postage declared in the listing, or because the seller would not combine items for one (or 2X) item shipping cost.

In all fairness, I've been burned before, because I did not read the details in the listing as carefully as I should have. But the anger is usually directed at myself for being careless, than due to the seller's description or apparent greed.

Hasn't there recently been a widely explored thread with regards to the high shipping cost charged by Legendary Auctions, or by Mastro Auctions ? Have their actions been excused because they did not clearly list the shipping costs in their catalogs, prior to your bidding. Yet many of you are quite angry towards an eBay seller who lists outrageous shipping costs in his listing. The group sentiment seems a bit backwards to me.

If, by chance, the listing failed to clearly declare the cost of shipping, or the seller charged more than the listing indicated, then I retract most of my statements above, and encourage whatever action can be taken against that particular seller. But from what I've read, this costly mistake resulted from failure to carefully read and understand the listing details, before submitting a successful bid. A painful lesson, but a valuable one for all of us to be reminded of.