[Boatanchors] ebay Noose Tightens.

[Sandy]

Not to mention the high cost of gas!  I live in a rural area, some distance from the UPS Store or their shipping counter.

Also not to mention the USP Shipping calculator being "off", sometimes quite a bit!

Add this and Paypal up and you wind up "absorbing" another $15 or more is overhead.  Shipping companies waste no time raising "surcharges" when gas goes up but don't lower prices again when it goes back down!!!

73,

Sandy W5TVW

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: WA5CAB at cs.com 
  To: km1h at jeremy.mv.com ; roscoe at aiko.com ; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] ebay Noose Tightens.


  Well, that only works until you run into a buyer who is also a seller and who knows all the tricks.  Shortly after that, you get listed on Bad-Ham as a cheat.  Shipping costs are one thing.  Few buyers to whom you explained the situation would expect you to drive 40 miles round-trip just to save them $2 on shipping.  But US society in general has come to assume that sellers will bear the cost of credit card transactions either directly or by raising the selling price.  One of two ways guaranteed to get you kicked off of PayPal or to have your Merchant Account canceled is to get caught charging more to a customer who uses a credit card than to one who doesn't.

  In a message dated 11/16/2008 8:31:46 PM Central Standard Time, km1h at jeremy.mv.com writes: 

    Making some money on shipping is a good way to cover the Ebay and Pay 
    Pal fees. All I do is jack up the package weight so the calculator comes 
    back with numbers I like.

    Its not like Im actually making a profit on the shipping but its still a 
    good place to bury expenses.



  Robert Downs - Houston
  wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
  MVPA 9480 


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