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

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 15:35:42 2001

If the seller is shipping to USA, Canada, UK and some other odd places by
UPS you have to have a zip (postal) code to calculate the shipping. If
shipping by USPS to another country it doesn't matter, just the country.
Seems real weird to me that if I sent a package by USPS from detroit to
Windsor Ontario it would cost the same as shipping from the Keys on Florida
to the NW territories - gotta wonder why people prefer UPS, FedEx, DHl and
others over the postal service.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chad Fernandez
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:57 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: My first problem w/ ebay came up... needs your advices
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> 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 - 15:35:42 BST