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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1929604, member: 27832"]And if you set your shipping "and handling" fee to cover "the cost of your time", but then you get caught in a traffic jam on the way to the post office, do you: 1) Turn around and go home with the package, and send a note to your buyer explaining that you need an extra $10 to cover the unexpected cost of your "extra time"? 2) Go ahead and ship the package, but report your uncompensated "extra time" as a loss when you're figuring your taxes? Hint: 1) no 2) no If you feel that you're spending too much time dealing with eBay sales to make it worth your while, the proper solution is to stop selling on eBay. Or, perhaps, to raise your asking prices to cover your "expenses", rather than padding your shipping and handling. But, as long as there are irrational bidders who don't factor in shipping costs when they're placing bids, there will be sellers who take advantage of them by padding shipping costs. It's almost enough to make me wish eBay would just enforce "free" (bundled-into-your-buy-price) shipping -- but I guess there's no way to make that work when shipping rates themselves aren't flat. I do also like the option of discounting combined shipping.[/QUOTE]