[WWI] ot: Ebay shipping costs

[Ray Boorman]

Leave a negative response on the sellers log. Stating that the
shippers charges top dollar and ships in cheap jiffy bags letting the
models get damaged en route.

Ray

On 3/2/07, Magnus Berggren <carius at comhem.se> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>