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

From: Vance Dereksen <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Apr 24 18:33:13 2001

Don't forget that most of the British Commonwealth members use postal
codes. Places like India.

Peace... Sridhar

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 - 18:33:13 BST