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View Poll Results: Should you report excess shipping fees? | |||
Yes | 33 | 47.83% | |
No | 6 | 8.70% | |
I just don't care one way or the other. | 6 | 8.70% | |
Let the buyer beware. | 24 | 34.78% | |
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01-01-2010, 04:00 PM | #1 |
Crimson lady of the Guard
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OK, let me rant for a moment.
I know many people dislike E-bay. I personally enjoy buying on e-bay more now than ever before. It is an ends to a means. That said I also understand that E-bay screws <thanks for the edit > the sellers with high fees but that is the agreement you make when you sell an item through them. So if we don't like their fees we can choose not to sell through the company. So here is my problem, what is up with charging huge shipping fees. I know it helps the seller avoid paying finale sales fees but why gouge like that. It is so frustrating when you see an item selling for $9.95 then to notice a shipping fee of $50.00 plus or more. I am always tempted to report these people because it really bites seeing them do this. Should I even care? No. Should it bother me? I don't have to buy an item if I don't like the total price after all. Yet I am still feeling like I should report the excess shipping fees. I don't do it but I am tempted. So what do you all feel should they be reported. Share your thoughts.
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01-01-2010, 04:02 PM | #2 |
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i just ignore them and buy craploads of stuff on their instead
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01-01-2010, 04:02 PM | #3 |
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As a buyer I love ebay. As for sellers marking up shipping to cover their fee, I really don't concern myself with policing them. If the shipping is too high I just won't bid.
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01-01-2010, 04:03 PM | #4 |
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I haven't bought on Ebay in ages, because i can't stand paying high shipping fees.
If i was a regular Ebay user, i would report it. But i have chosen to just not use the site anymore. |
01-01-2010, 04:04 PM | #5 |
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That is how I feel too most of the time, yet there are a few moments where, well I feel like a vigilante. I haven't reported anyone yet but it is so tempting at times.
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01-01-2010, 04:06 PM | #6 |
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Personally, I go back and forth on this one. I have reported some shipping fees that I thought were ridiculous and I've let others pass. I don't know what makes the difference. I guess it just depends on how I feel that day. Although, I do recall one that I reported was a Buy It Now for a dollar but the shipping was a hundred bucks (or something like that). That's unreasonable.
I understand the frustration with eBay's fees, but on the other hand, that's the agreement a seller makes. So, I don't see any problem with reporting the seller and letting eBay sort it out. But, if it was my buddy that was trying to skirt the final values fees, I'd probably be okay with it. Yeah, my morals get kind of gray at times.
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01-01-2010, 04:07 PM | #7 |
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Organize your view as lowest to highest and you'll see your cheapest option with shipping included.
Reporting them seems kind of like tattle tailing. It's not like they killed someone, so I don't think you're morally obligated to report them. |
01-01-2010, 04:08 PM | #8 |
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If it's too high, I saw forget it and look somewhere else.
Fees are high, but as a seller you're agreeing to those fees of your own free will, it's pure scumbag to try and make up the money somewhere else.
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01-01-2010, 04:10 PM | #9 |
Crimson lady of the Guard
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I see your point. It still doesn't make me feel any less upset with the practice. Yet I still have never reported anyone so I guess I haven't tattled yet.
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01-01-2010, 04:10 PM | #10 |
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I don't feel it's my job, but I definitely don't buy from them. What I don't get is people who over charge for their products, and their shipping. Like 10 bucks for a run of the mill RoC figure, plus another 10 for shipping. Someone should find those people and smack them. Stop wasting everyone's time having to scroll past your overpriced crap, to try and find a decent deal.
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