[Boatanchors] ebay Noose Tightens.

[Peter Markavage]

Gas is down to less then $2 a gallon many places here in NJ. 

Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:28:46 -0600 "Sandy" <ebjr37 at charter.net> writes:
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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