This is funny (ebay)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Feb 23 21:11:12 2002

I've had to pay $10 shipping on a couple of DIMMs, though the postage was only
$1.53 at the time. Still, it was enough of a savings to make me tolerate it.

A 9GB SCSI (SCA-80) drive arrived today with $4.53 in postage, and the entire
cost, shipped, was $24.85. The thing works VERY well, so far, and its heads
haven't stopped moving for 5 hours.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: This is funny (ebay)


> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > If you ship via USPS Priority Mail, they'll give you a box for free and
lend
> > you the pen to write the address on it. Since a cable isn't easy to
break,
> > you won't be needing Sunday's paper for padding. Unfortunately, they
don't
> > pick up, but they're both cheaper and faster than UPS.
>
> Yup. For small items, USPS is my choice. But even with a free box &
> label, if you count bookkeeping and trip time, actual shipping plus
> $5.10 handling ain't even close to minimum wage.
> And on the buyers' side, $9 shipping is about what it would cost me in
> time & gas to drive around and get one.
> Unless the seller is obviously a business, I just don't see total S&H
> of under $10 as being excessive if the item is bigger than a couple of
> SIMMs....
>
> Doc
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 21:11:12 GMT