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[solved] [little rant] eBay seller charges +20 USD because he has to pay rent
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DiTBho:

--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on March 22, 2021, 07:32:01 pm ---It's not clear to me if the object was advertised with courrier shipping or whether this is the conclusion of the OP based on the price.

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--- Quote ---USPS First-Class International is not only the most efficient way to send a package or a letter but also the economical way. The First-Class Mail International is the most affordable service for sending postcards, flats, and letters to more than 180 countries along with Canada.

Though it may take some time for your package to reach its destination as compared to the other mail classes that are more expensive, you will be able to save a lot with international First-Class mail.

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on eBay, he wrote "several shipping options available" Then he used "USPS First-Class International", which doesn't allow you to have a phone number added as contact because there is no courier and the little parcel/soft-bag travel as "mail", so you will receive it delivered by a postman.

UPS and Fedex have this service so they contact you on the phone to organize a delivery.

The cost for soft-bag shipped via USPS First-Class International is 14..15 USD. I paid 35, and the seller wrote "no problem, I will add the phone contact to the tracking", which is impossible with this service unless you use a carrier (you can write a phone number in the "note field", but nobody will call you on the phone), so it was my conclusion based on the price and the said "I will add the phone number to the tracking".


--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on March 22, 2021, 07:32:01 pm ---if the item arrived within the eBay advertised timeframe or something close to it (Covid) I still feel the.. well, can't call it dismay I suppose, outrage? annoyance?  is a bit over the top.

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eBay estimated Mon 13, February 2021 as "delivery date", the parcel took a very very longer time, but I wouldn't complain for this, I am tolerant about delays caused by Covid et all.

What I don't tolerate is goods arrived damaged because the packaging is both inadequate and overpaid!
DiTBho:
In the meanwhile, I have just found and immediately bought a couple of new micro-drive from Bonanza.
We will see, we will see  ;D

(I have to resurrect my second Japanese Linux, PDA, both these two microdrive will go inside it)
Brumby:

--- Quote from: grumpydoc on March 22, 2021, 02:39:49 pm ---
--- Quote ---and they should have worked out all the necessary costs involved and clearly declared them in the listing.

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To a point - the seller should put the p&p clearly on the item but I don't think a break down of costs is necessary. eBay now require that the seller says what type of service will be used though - so if the listing says "courier" it should be a courier (I have occasionally sued a faster service than advertised at my own cost though).

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Apologies for not being clear here.

What I meant to say was that the seller needs to work out all the details and then present the result in the listing for all the shipping options they are offering.  A breakdown is not relevant, only the bottom line.

Unless there is a special case, a buyer should be able to look at a listing and know exactly the total cost of acquisition.  Even with special case situations, a total figure should be set in stone before pulling the trigger.
coppercone2:
Well I won a minimum bid auction recently and the mailer mailed it to me, I left a very good review.

Then I bought 3x DIP40 chips, the mail got lost and went to other country by accident, when I got it the tube was bent and one of the chips was cracked, so I sent a picture to the guy and he refunded me 33% of the price, thought it looked like it was not his fault.

So I think ebay is great. I sold a few things myself and sometimes it was barely worth it because of shipping (Alaska risk) but I still did it because its still money and its pretty easy.

I also had one guy that tried to raise shipping costs on me, so clearly he was not happy, so I asked him to cancel the transaction instead of fighting someone in another country (he was a cheap ass Canadian) to honor an arrangement. A little annoying but OK. Thats what I call a bait and switch or lack of research on shipping cost. If you put a shipping price you need to accept the gambling risk, I usually did because the net effect was money for me despite a few under performering auctions, usually you don't get hit too hard by the edge cases and the profit flows nicely. IMO its pretty good work so its better to have the system function and have flow then nit pick, people seem to forget you can always sell more stuff, some people have this 'OMFG ITS THE LAST JOB IM EVER GONNA DO ON EBAY I NEED TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS', those are usually the frustrating ones.
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: DiTBho on March 22, 2021, 08:38:21 pm ---In the meanwhile, I have just found and immediately bought a couple of new micro-drive from Bonanza.
We will see, we will see  ;D

(I have to resurrect my second Japanese Linux, PDA, both these two microdrive will go inside it)

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Any reason not to use a SD card in a SD to CF adapter?
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