[78-L] e-bay

[Clifford Bolling]

Some dealers want to sell something for $98 but don't want to pay exhorbitant fees to the auction.  Since you don't pay fees on postage, the way around that is to over charge on postage and sell the item for a miniscule amount.  Though lately, the auction folks have been posting limits to postage allowed for shipping records.  I think they are catching on.  CBD

--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:


From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] e-bay
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:06 PM


I agree with Taylor, because I always consider shipping costs when
bidding or ordering.  BUT, for $74 shipping I would expect the record to
be hand delivered by one of those dames who advertise in the back pages
of The Village Voice, or perhaps a Thai Slave Girl.  

Mike (I can dream, can't I) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  



From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> In the end, it's only the total price that matters...if there are a
> hundred dollars or so worth of things you want it doesn't matter if
> it's $24 for records and the rest for postage or $24 for postage and
> the rest for the records...it still comes to $98. How the seller
> wants to break it down doesn't matter to me.  Taylor


From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> > I just had an e-bay experience which I've never had before. I was
> > going to bid on a set of Viva~Tonals that was advertising a "Buy
> > now" price of around $24. Just as I was going to hit the button,
> > I noticed that the shipping costs were almost $74, (from New York
> > State to New York State). I wrote the seller, (who has 100% positive
> > feedback), to see if this was a miss-print but got no answer. A
> > second letter also got no response. I guess a lot of buyers don't
> > mind paying large shipping costs as long as they get a good 
> > price on the item.  db

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