Author Topic: AS SEEN ON EBAY!!! (Read 6405 times)

mumzie · « **on:** March 09, 2008, 06:56:38 AM »

And she runs and hides...

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No Requests For Mass Bias Alignments As CG Doesnt Matter On Asym Balls

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dynothane-Cure-Pearl-Bowling-Ball-15_W0QQitemZ380003526240QQihZ025QQcategoryZ36105QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

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JessN16 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 10, 2008, 05:26:01 PM »

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allstarbowling is a joke. I bought from them one time, and had similar experiences as those who neg'd him on eBay. I am close enough to pick up from them, but they will not let you (without paying a fee and having him drill it). I said fine, ship it. It took forever (mind you, I am 20 miles from them). When it finally showed up, the box was clearly marked X-out/blem! It was supposed to be a 1st quality with chosen specs! After a few emails and 4 phone calls, he finally let me bring it back for an exchange (on my time and at my expense).

As for ebay fees, I sell balls now and then. I charge a flat rate of $25 for S&H. I arrived at that figure by checking the shipping charges to the farthest location from me in the continental US. I decided on this method for two reasons. One, it levels the playing field for the buyers. They know up from what it is going to cost, and it does not matter where you live. Second, if it gets sent to a closer location, I make a few extra bucks. This helps offset the costs associated with selling. You have listing fees, paypal fees, shipping charges, printer paper and ink, packaging tape, boxes (although some are recycled if in decent shape), gas, and (most important) time. Time is the kicker. When I am at home, I would rather be doing just about anything besides using my time to take pictures, list auctions, monitor them, answer questions, send invoices, create shipping labels, pack the balls, and take them to UPS.

I know what my time is worth when I am at work. It is clearly listed on my check. When I am at home, I figure my time is worth ALOT more than that amount. I have 3 young boys and a loving wife. The time spent with them cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Sitting at the computer dealing with auctions has a price. If the few dollars I charge for "handling" bothers you, don't bid. I have had no problem selling anything to date, and I have 100% positive to back it up. My stuff is what I say it is. I do what I say I will do, and I don't drag my feet doing it.
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Flat-fee shipping punishes people who live close to you. It makes more sense to buy from someone far away if you're going to average shipping.

No one is trying to rob you of a handling fee. Those are legitimate expenses.

To me, charging flat fees offers no positive value except to people who live across the country from you. If anyone is bidding on eBay, 99.x% of the time they've already got an account. In that account is their ZIP, and once you use the "calculate shipping" option, it saves as a cookie. From there on out, I'm able to see flexible shipping rates.

Using that option as a seller, you can (and should) upcharge a reasonable amount and save it in your selling platform -- that way, when I click on "calculate shipping," if actual shipping from you to me is $19 and you're charging $6/ball for handling, my calculation rate will be $25, which is fair.

But using a flat fee favors some buyers over others, and it really doesn't save anyone that much work. Whether you're scheduling a home pickup or taking it in manually, they're still going to weigh every package (or make you weigh it at home) and charge you by each parcel.

Jess

p.s.: Next time someone sends you an X-blem unadvertised, file a SNAD, keep the X-blem for free and buy another copy of the same ball. After a few of those, the seller will get the message.

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JessN16 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 10, 2008, 05:27:59 PM »

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Will have to side with Jess on this particular auction. Actual shipping charges from UPS are about $15 cheaper ($15.31 to be exact) than what the seller is charging - I did it every possible way on the UPS site. That is more than double the charges.

My apologies guys and JessN16. I thought he was charging a flat $28 rate, when in fact that is the rate to ship to me. All my previous arguments are based on the wrong premise. So he is in fact charging around $15 over actual costs. So you are right JessN16 in that he is "wrong" in that respect because he is trying to get around eBay's fees. That is of course subjective. Where do you draw the line? $5 is an arbitrary number. You may not value your time as much as he does his.

The point still stands that it doesn't affect buyers directly. I have included a spreadsheet which shows how much he is ripping eBay off by increasing the premium on the shipping fee. It's generally going to be about $1.14.

Link to Spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYt7YbxdnZwPu5egQ8VSAAg

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No worries. I'm not mad at anyone.

Jess

JessN16 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 10, 2008, 06:05:44 PM »

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Might not affect the buyers, but Joe has 114 auctions right now. That's about $83 extra in his pocket. Not a huge chunk of change, but nothing to sneeze at either!

You're right it's nothing to sneeze at. It's actually $1.14, I miscalculated. So it's more like $130. Like I said, JessN is right in that he's skirting around eBay's fees, but I recall seeing posts like "I don't want to pay extra shipping" when that isn't the case since he's a pretty much charging similar premium to actual rates. So if everybody is paying the same premium, then it all boils down to the max final bid.

Again, buyers are not hurt (not directly anyway), only eBay.

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That's true so long as one of two things don't happen: People don't check the shipping fees or the fine print before bidding (their fault for not checking, but folks get careless sometimes and don't check), or what happens when eBay finally decides to crack down as it is currently doing and affect the good sellers right along with the bad.

Example of my second point: My wife has sold for years for pennies over actual ZIP-to-ZIP shipping. She uses junk mail or newspapers for packing materials and gets her boxes delivered to the house by the USPS for Priority shipping. She rarely has to actually go to the post office; she schedules pickups. She has great feedback that she has earned.

She doesn't screw over eBay, but others do, and for that reason, eBay is recouping lost money by upping listing and final value fees. That's chasing one bad decision with another, I know, but eBay owns the site and can do what it wants. In addition, they're shaking up the feedback process, and not in a good way, tilting it heavily toward the buyer.

So here's my wife and her 99.6% positive feedback (and I have 100.0% positive) and she and other good sellers have to bear the burden for both unscrupulous sellers (using shipping to avoid final value fees) and worthless buyers (feedback modifications).

The end effect is that my wife will quit selling sometime this spring, altogether. She enjoys it but the process is starting to get too adversarial. And when sellers quit, buyers lose because the competition is less and therefore the price floor rises.

Jess

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BrianCRX90 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 10, 2008, 09:00:17 PM »

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o ONLINE DRILL SPEC FORM to provide measurements
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haha...ya right I'm going to send my favorite ball and assume I will get it back. I've never heard of anything so retarded.

BBU · « **Reply #35 on:** March 10, 2008, 09:07:11 PM »

$20 is the most you should ever charge for shipping on ebay. The most Ive ever had to spend on shipping, either buying or selling was about $19. Very much deception as I read earlier.
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