My first problem w/ ebay came up... needs your advices

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Tue Apr 24 14:57:12 2001

Lawrence Walker wrote:
> Why do US sellers ask for your ZIP code ?

Thats how we know where you live. Cost might not vary as much with
International shipping, by zip code, but I would think that a zip from
Vancouver would cost more than a zip from Toronto, for me.

> One of my big beefs are the guys that ask a big shipping and handling
> charge. I sometimes wonder if that is how they really make their money.
> I've passed on many desired things due to that rip-off.


This only really irritates me when I get the package and it is packed
badly. I bought an Apple //gs from a guy on Ebay that sort of did that
to me. He was a big seller, that already had the box packed before the
auction started, I guess. I didn't need the 5.25" floppy drive, becasue
I already had one. I told him that he could keep it, so I wouldn't have
to pay as much in shipping.... mind you I didn't ask to pay less than
the final bid price... just a smaller shipping cost to reflect the
weight of the drive that he got to keep. He wanted to charge me
something like $40 an hour to repack the box!! I figured well, he must
do a really good job packing everything just so. I told him, forget it,
just send it as is. I recived a huge box packed loosely, with all items
just tossed in with peanuts!!!! I was so mad. It couldn't have taken
him any time at all to pack the box, nothing was really protected, he
didn't even do anything to prevent penuts from getting into the floppy
drives! On top of that the computer was very abused. For some reason,
I didn't leave negative feedback, I can't remember why, Though.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 14:57:12 BST