eBay: mauna loa box of 50 swizzles on ebay right now... - Tiki Marketplace

TL Tiki Lee's Tiki Socialite Las Vegas Joined: Aug 23, 2003 Posts: 798	TL Tiki Lee's Posted posted on Wed, May 21, 2008 7:50 PM If any of you would bother to check, the $4.80 is for Priority Shipping. $4.80 is the bottom dollar amount that ANYTHING can be sent via Priority Mail; even one sheet of paper. Go to the USPS website and see for yourselves. This guy is definatley not padding costs. Actually, he's losing money since he's not charging any "handling fees" to cover eBay's and Paypal's fees, gas to the Post Office, packing materials, etc. like most sellers do. I'm sure that if buyers would ask for cheaper First Class shipping in a paper envelope, the guy would ship it that way for less. Anyone bother to ask him that? I've been criticized for "over-charging" on shipping myself as an eBay seller, and it really gets my dander up when people don't check into the facts before attacking. Speaking of attacks, I agree with Kate: 1961surf IS the sorest of sore losers. Being that vindictive as so much as to try and get everyone on T.C. to turn against this guy, just because he lost the auction and couldn't "get his way" after the fact, is just not cool. If the guy doesn't want to answer an e-mail, does that mean he deserves to be attacked and have his name smeared? WAAAAY Overboard! By the way, did anyone to the math on this? With shipping, the guy paid $2.55 each, and 1961surf wanted to give him $3-$4? I wouldn't e-mail him back either! That's an insult! At $5 each, the guy is only making $2.45 per swizzle, MINUS eBay and PayPal fees and his other costs. How does that make him greedy? That doesn't seem like he's "reaming people" at all. I don't think anyone here has ever attacked 1961surf like that for his many posts of things that he's bought locally to re-sell here and on eBay at a better price. I'm sure his mark-up is much, MUCH more than $2.50 per item! I don't see how he feels that he has the right to pass judgement and try to ruin someone's reputation just because that someone chooses not to deal with him. Salem Witch Trials anyone? McCarthy Red-Scare anyone? Bill, as you told me yourself in a P.M. once: "Who died and made you T.C. judge?"

If any of you would bother to check, the $4.80 is for Priority Shipping. $4.80 is the bottom dollar amount that ANYTHING can be sent via Priority Mail; even one sheet of paper. Go to the USPS website and see for yourselves. This guy is definatley not padding costs. Actually, he's losing money since he's not charging any "handling fees" to cover eBay's and Paypal's fees, gas to the Post Office, packing materials, etc. like most sellers do. I'm sure that if buyers would ask for cheaper First Class shipping in a paper envelope, the guy would ship it that way for less. Anyone bother to ask him that? I've been criticized for "over-charging" on shipping myself as an eBay seller, and it really gets my dander up when people don't check into the facts before attacking.

Speaking of attacks, I agree with Kate: 1961surf IS the sorest of sore losers. Being that vindictive as so much as to try and get everyone on T.C. to turn against this guy, just because he lost the auction and couldn't "get his way" after the fact, is just not cool. If the guy doesn't want to answer an e-mail, does that mean he deserves to be attacked and have his name smeared? WAAAAY Overboard!

By the way, did anyone to the math on this? With shipping, the guy paid $2.55 each, and 1961surf wanted to give him $3-$4? I wouldn't e-mail him back either! That's an insult! At $5 each, the guy is only making $2.45 per swizzle, MINUS eBay and PayPal fees and his other costs. How does that make him greedy? That doesn't seem like he's "reaming people" at all. I don't think anyone here has ever attacked 1961surf like that for his many posts of things that he's bought locally to re-sell here and on eBay at a better price. I'm sure his mark-up is much, MUCH more than $2.50 per item!

I don't see how he feels that he has the right to pass judgement and try to ruin someone's reputation just because that someone chooses not to deal with him. Salem Witch Trials anyone? McCarthy Red-Scare anyone? Bill, as you told me yourself in a P.M. once: "Who died and made you T.C. judge?"

Post #381727 by Tiki Lee's on Wed, May 21, 2008 7:50 PM