There is discussion on some of the ebay community boards about this. A lot of
the power sellers try to justify it various ways. As for myself, I always
begin my descriptions with a big line that mentions actual shipping charges only
and no excessive fees. Whether or not that helps remains to be seen. I have
bypassed many an auction because the shipping and bogus handling fees were not
acceptable for the item sold.
In a message dated 2/5/2004 5:00:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, teoz_at_neo.rr.com
writes:
> Did you guys see this?
>
<
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2592518771&category=4504
> 5>. It's a thin manual for an EPROM programmer. This clown wants $9.80 for
> shipping AND $2.80 for insurance (REQUIRED no less). Actual postage for
> this via USPS bookrate is about 40 cents and insurance is 35 cents! How
do
> these clowns expect to stay in business!
>
> Joe
Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 16:17:56 GMT