[meteorite-list] Ebay is ripping everybody off at least once! (OT)

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 29 21:54:57 2006
Message-ID: <8m3oc2t14llon3m4b1f984ea9ei3jmcvba_at_4ax.com>

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:22:35 -0600, you wrote:

>So I fail to see how any of this violates any eBay policy.

That banknote was one of the few items that I clicked on as a "sample" of what
you had for sale and saw the $4.05 price. I see that you charge $4.05 for other
items, too, and $4.05 isn't unreasonable for micromounts and "bulky" things like
that.

I've bought hundreds of banknotes via ebay and most of them come in regular
envelopes with a regular stamp, either sandwitched between two pieces of
cardboard or in a plastic banknote sleeve. I've never had one in any way
damaged from that shipping method. If you are shipping a banknote in a priority
mail box, though, that's frankly kind of dumb. Especially one with a tiny tiny
book value like the one that you are selling. But my experience with people
that charge too much for shipping isn't that they ship the banknotes in priority
mail boxes-- they ship them in an envelope with a stamp just like anyone else
(even when they claim that the will be shipping it priority) but charge several
dollars extra profit that goes into their pockets THAT is what is against
ebay's policy.

The man reason I pointed out that auction, though, is that you shouldn't
automaticly assume a low- or no- sale price is a conspiracy on the part of
ebay-- it might be that you have items that people aren't willing to pay the
price+shipping for.
Received on Sat 29 Jul 2006 09:55:59 PM PDT