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In Reply to: How we Ebay posted by Bambi B on October 01, 2004 at 10:21:27:
The buyers' "weapons" on Ebay are flimsy namely, sniping, or backoff(not recommended) against sellers' weapons of shill bids, high reserved price, withdrawal plus add-on cost, non-shipping.So, don't try to fool yourself by saying that you're an experienced bidder and be able to buy something cheap with good confidence.Irrespective what bidding strategy you can think of, Ebay is not a fair game to buyer(sorry, the rules are fixed) except on a few rare occasions, some sellers put the items on buy-it-now with lower prices. I don't know why and there should be no point to sell good stuff cheap, or are they so badly in need of money by a few days?
Maybe one out of 20 buy-it-now occasions, you can buy it cheap, seldom on bidding race. I bought a quad of metal base EL 34 at $100 and a quad GZ 32(British) at $50.
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nt
I agree that handling/packing fees need to be included but all you need to do is email the seller BEFORE you bid. Not really that hard to do and then you can find out the person's policy if it isn't already stated in the ad.
It's bad enough with the number of sellers who say " will ship to US only". Don't make it worse.
nt
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I usually state $7 air parcel post overseas.
Am I doing something wrong? I'm a small time seller on E-bay, about 250 sales, mostly telescope items, but word is spreading and friends are dropping off their cr*p, like Porsche gages. Anyway, here's an example: I calculate shipping at www.usps.com for overseas packages and the cheapest I get for 1/4 pound to Italy is $14.00. If I'm selling something for under, I dunno, $50, it isn't worth it to split shipping costs. Is there a cheaper way to do it?Also, the US post office acts as a customs agent. I investigated shipping outside the US via Fedex or UPS and discovered I needed to get a customs agent-it quickly became too arcane, time consuming, and expensive to even bother figuring out. I'll ship smaller items overseas but that's one reason why amatuer's and small fry won't ship outside the US. The 'system' favors big fry.
Anyone know a resource, book, website that explains how to do overseas shipping I'd appreciate it.
you don't know that?
Grins
and the hidden packing and handling fees?
There are a few possibilities for that one. One is the seller taking a way around the 'seller is not supposed to charge to use Paypal'. So, if I did not feel like eating the ~4% tax on a Paypal transaction, I'd word the shipping/handling charge carefully.There is no way I am going to feel forced to pay for the buyer's convenience of using PayPal. I usually do it, but don't absolutely have to.
you seem to be concerned with a lot of things.
regards,
Douglas
Beware the man who behaves deceitfully towards others, for there is nothing else to save you from his deceiving you
Somewhere the sellers could be bluffing about selling some old unknown tubes for $50 and $100 within a few minutes...
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