I've seen some high shipping fees, but check this one out... http://www.ebay.com/itm/AS-DE-SEGOV...07379&pid=100338&rk=16&rkt=16&sd=252365774462
That is a rip off! you could ship a toaster oven for that amount of $. He is pocketing the leftover $55.00. Ebay is great but beware of scammers. I'm going metal detecting it's 2 nice out.
Please note: "Ships from: Alicante, Spain" Some well-known US dealers are asking $50+ for int'l shipping... and many even refuse to ship int'l at all... are they IDI*%# too?
Shipping fee is cheaper then the selling fee. Thats how people work around the ebay fee. Unless they fixed this already
If you're in Spain, it might be a fine deal. I don't blame anyone for charging extra for international shipping. I eventually decided it wasn't worth my time when I was selling. (In fact, I believe it was a Spanish bidder who backed out of his winning bid for a rare and expensive microscope after he found out how many hundreds of dollars insured shipping would cost.)
I have bought gemstones and faceting rough from a Spanish mineral dealer in Barcelona for several years, and a 400 grams parcel was $8 shipping. Small gems were $8 for first and 50 cents for additional lots in 14 day period. Fast within 8-10 days, none lost. Probably there are private methods that can be used. Just checked and still the same.
10% fee on FV, 10% fee on shipping charges. Not combined for a total in your invoices fees but might as well be
I am not trying to defend the seller in any way, but are you aware that $1 is only the starting bid...? As I said, many US sellers offer free shipping for US buyers but have very high shipping fees for int'l buyers, too.
Your example is exactly WHY eBay charges sellers a Final Value Fee on shipping! To, hopefully, prevent this from occuring but as you can see, it has no effect. Instead, the middle of the road sellers that take a "loss" on shipping and handling get the privilege of padding eBays coffers! It's not like eBay cannot tell when shipping and handling exceeds costs since their shipping programs and PayPals shipping program can report what was spent on actual postage. They'd rather rake in the profits from yet another absolutely stupid rule! While a $60 shipping and handling fee irritates you folks, the final value fee on shipping and handling irritates me since, in most cases, it's not evenclose to a break even scenario.
Unless you can point out where this is outlines on eBays policy, I'll have to disagree. Generally speaking, if I charge between $2.00 and $3.00 for s&h, ebay bills me between .15 and .18 cents "regardless" of what my item sells for. If I have slow sales, I can get popped for .30 FVF for a $2.50 S&H regardless of what the item sells for. My Bad. Final Value Fee for "Shipping" is not charged on the entire amount. Final Value fee's for the listing are charged based upon what the listing sells for. PAYPAL, on the other hand, charges .30 per transaction plus 2.9% of the "entire" amount received which includes shipping and handling and any Sales Taxes collected.
Really? A small uninsured parcel shipped via Correos "world economy" from Spain to the US is about 20EUR (23USD). Insurance, tracking etc. not included. Fedex, as mentioned in the listing's shipping section, is more expensive. A feedback of 12 also indicates that he's possibly an inexperienced seller... but I stop now as the jury already found him "guilty". I would simply ask him if he'd ship via Correos economy if I were interested in buying this coin.
Inflated shipping charges are a way some sellers use to make more money. I just bought a $100. coin weighting 14 grams and the seller wanted $8. to mail it from the mid-west to me in Calif.
