[WWI] ot: Ebay shipping costs

[Magnus Berggren]

I´m just irritated about the total lack of honesty. This is about 600% of 
the real cost, and added to the irritation is the fact that jiffybags are 
not easy on the kits, when sent international, even if it´s just from the UK 
to Sweden.....

/M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Malany" <cmm-saj at snet.net>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] ot: Ebay shipping costs


> Hello, Magnus:
>
> No, it's not just you.  eBay shipping costs range from
> very reasonable to outrageous, but more and more
> vendors seem to be inflating shipping costs.  If they
> don't disclose the shipping costs, I always ask now
> first.  I've noticed that a low "Buy It Now" price and
> high shipping seems to be a sales ploy by some Asian
> vendors.  Sometimes total cost means I can buy from a
> local hobby shop almost as cheaply, and I do.
>
> - Chris Malany
>
> --- Magnus Berggren <carius at comhem.se> wrote:
>
>> Is it just me who have started to become irritaded
>> about how people try to
>> make money on shipping and package-costs?
>> I just bought a kit, bipe, but off-topic. Paid £5,
>> which was a decent price.
>> Then I had to pay £12 for the shipping. I accepted,
>> because some people
>> really put their soul into packaging the stuff in a
>> good way, and shipping
>> tracable and insured.
>> What did I get? Kit packaged in jiffy-bag, postage
>> £1.45......
>>
>> Furious Fury-owner.......
>> /M
>>
>>
>