The biggest ripoff on eBay is "Shipping & Handling" or Shipping charges. I'm sorry to say that most eBay Sellers overcharge their customers for S&H, just to make more money. They figure that most Bidders don't have a clue about how much it really costs to ship items. So they use that ignorance to charge double, triple, and more than what it actually costs. It's not just sportscards, but every catagory that eBay offers. It's up to the Seller to charge S&H, and many of them look at it as a way to price gouge without anyone bothering to complain.
But let's take sportscards, as an example-
Did you know that if a Seller puts a card in a top-loader, and then a #10 envelope, mails it to you First Class, that it only costs .59cents postage? If the Seller puts the card in a Bubble Mailer and sends it First Class, then it costs $1.00 postage. Anything over one ounce but less than two ounces costs $1.34 postage. FYI: Three cards in top-loaders weigh just under two ounces, so the postage alone should be $1.34....You see where I'm going with this? If the Seller charges $2 or $3 for Shipping & Handling per card, that must be some kind of special handling, eh?
Don't let them get away with it. You can send them Nuetral or Negative Feedback for their greed, and you don't have to worry about retaliation. That's because eBay has a new policy now concerning Feedback. Sellers can no longer give Nuetral or Negative Feedback, only Positive Feedback to their customers. Maybe if they get enough bad Feedback about shipping charges, they'll change their ways.
You can also buy yourself a little Postal Scale at any large office supply place. Once you find out how much something weighs, then you can go to usps.com and find out how much you're getting ripped off.
Have fun out there, but educate yourself!
But let's take sportscards, as an example-
Did you know that if a Seller puts a card in a top-loader, and then a #10 envelope, mails it to you First Class, that it only costs .59cents postage? If the Seller puts the card in a Bubble Mailer and sends it First Class, then it costs $1.00 postage. Anything over one ounce but less than two ounces costs $1.34 postage. FYI: Three cards in top-loaders weigh just under two ounces, so the postage alone should be $1.34....You see where I'm going with this? If the Seller charges $2 or $3 for Shipping & Handling per card, that must be some kind of special handling, eh?
Don't let them get away with it. You can send them Nuetral or Negative Feedback for their greed, and you don't have to worry about retaliation. That's because eBay has a new policy now concerning Feedback. Sellers can no longer give Nuetral or Negative Feedback, only Positive Feedback to their customers. Maybe if they get enough bad Feedback about shipping charges, they'll change their ways.
You can also buy yourself a little Postal Scale at any large office supply place. Once you find out how much something weighs, then you can go to usps.com and find out how much you're getting ripped off.
Have fun out there, but educate yourself!
