$6.00 Shipping Got me this????

[JustinBerl]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I just have to vent a little bit. I won 4 cards from a guy on ebay last week, 2 Jari Kurri RC's, a Wayne Gretzky 84-85 Topps and a Tom Barrasso RC all for like 7 bucks. I get the invoice and shipping is $6, fine I was expecting a bubble mailer, cards in top loaders and some kind of tracking. Well I was wrong, I got the 4 cards only in a penny sleeve surround by 2 pieces of paper in a plain white envelope with one .96 cent stamp from canada. I just can't believe this is what my $6.00 shipping got me? I am lucky the cards didn't get messed up.

[Hamels35]

Thats crap. I really wish the USPS would step in for fraud with ridiculous shipping prices some people charge. But we all know it will never happen.

[JustinBerl]

This guy is such a scammer, my buddy who took my advice since I did get a great deal on the cards won some stuff from him today. Once I got my package I told him what the deal was in terms of this guys shipping. So my buddy asks him for a reasonable quote since the last cards my friend bought came in a plain white envelope with $1.00 postage, just in penny sleeves, etc. The guy goes the shipping rates are the same for everyone and if my buddy wants he'll send to him in a bubble mailer but won't give him tracking cause it cost too much money. It would be another $18 for tracking. I already emailed ebay about this guy cause that is such BS, guys like him give all good sellers a bad name.

[paragon11]

Some of the outrageous shipping charges that sellers put up on eBay drive me AWAY from purchasing certain items. When I sold on eBay, I tried my darndest to charge as close to actual shipping cost as possible.

I guess it's there way of circumventing the fees they get hit with by jacking up shipping charges.

Terry

[JustinBerl]

Here is The Seller's explanation of why he charges so much and why he doesn't put the cards in a top loader or anything

"i offer 1$ insurance in case of damage, I reccomend it. The combined S&H rate is factored into the price of the card and i pocket some handling. I charge the same rate for everybody regardless of where you are in the world. I also pay handling every single time i buy anything on ebay. I send thousands of items in the same way and mabye 1 in 1000 gets damaged, allmost never, a couple times a year an envelope gets chewed up in postal machines but its extreamly rare. I dont have enough toploaders to put every card i sell in a toploader, Im just not willing to spend $5000 a year on card supplies, the profit margin a very slim anyway.If they were damaged by MY negligence (which allmost never happens) I would replace them all for you. If the postal services damaged them, i would say i hope you bought the optional postal insurance. I cannot guarentee delivery without insurance because suddenly 1 in 10 shipments arrives damaged. many buyers will make false claims of damage. I learned that in my 1st few months selling on ebay. so i offer optional insurance that nobody ever wants to pay for, people tend to blame the sellers for postal misshaps, but they are extreamly rare in reality. I never buy the insurance when i buy small orders. I do if my bill is around 100$ or more. but for a 10$ shipment nobody ever buys it.My concern is to pack them in a way that prevents damage and i do, I cant provide toploaders and suppliesto 900 customers a month. Im happy to pack them tight between 2 toploaders in a bubble mailer upon request, but i use white envelopes when i can also because they arrive twice as fast and many people have unreasonable expectations on how fast their cards will arrive. I get alot of emails after 5 days saying WHERE ARE MY CARDS WHATS GOING ON ???? and so forth, white envelopes will be about 7 days from Canada to the USA but a bubble will be 10 - 20 days depending on where. The faster the better as long as there is no damage."

So he basically admits to overcharging people so he can pocket some of the money. I already reported this dude to ebay for excessive shipping charges. Hopefully they'll set him straight.

[sludgy]

http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/of...nt/rates-e.asp

Yup sending a bubble mailer would have cost him $1.92+tax in postage.... some people!

[sludgy]

http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/pr...-e.asp#1407738

However Canada Post is stupid for insurance add "$12.50 plus applicable Letter-post postage"... yikes!

[kgsmith]

I agree.. Thats why I dont normally buy on ebay, unless its something that want and cant find anywhere else.. like the person who started this thread said, $6.. for what? I understand gas is expensive, but come on.. thats why on my site, I charge about a buck and change.. My selection isnt as big as ebay, but its getting there.. Check out other card auction sites also.. you might get lucky..heck, ebay started out small too.