shipping charges on ebay???

[jsokol1626]

It seems that a refresher course in Business101 might help a few people understand the fundamentals of free enterprise. Every successful business must include all of their expenses when establishing the price of their product. The most successful businesses are those that look for ways to minimize their expenses so that their prices are competitive. EBAY sellers are no different. Since they cannot add expenses to the actual sale price they do so by including them in the shipping and handling fees.

A few of you commented that Handling fees should be restricted to the cost of the materials used to ship the product. If that were the case it would be called "shipping and materials fee". Handling fees are exactly what the word implies, the cost of "handling" the sale. Those costs may vary widely depending upon several factors. For example a seller who owns a store and has paid employees may have higher handling costs that a seller who runs all aspects of his business from his home office. Other sellers may have to travel several miles and wait in long lines to mail an item.

When its all said and done the free enterprise system allows the seller to select the cost of goods that he feels is appropriate. Obviously if those fees are too high he won't be very successful. Competition in the marketplace assures that buyers have options. One of those options includes the refusal to buy. Although all of us have the right to voice an opinion none of us have the right to tell a seller how to run his business and what his prices must be. Again, if you don't like the price, don't buy the product. Because the truth of the matter is that none of you know the seller's actual Shipping and Handling costs.

Bottom line if the cost of the item and the S &H fees result in a fair price, then you buy, if not, you don't.

Would any of you complain if I posted a Crosby SPX rookie with a Buy it Now of $1.00 and then charged you $100 to ship it? Of course you wouldn't. You'd snatch that baby up in the time it takes to hit the right keys.

[Star_Cards]

perfectly said.