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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;d_lairson, post: 267947, member: 8441&quot;]If you look at one of my above message I copy and pasted the rules directly from ebay as to how handling costs figure into auction prices. </p><p><br /></p><p>Look, if I bought something on ebay. The starting price was $0.99. I bought it for $2.00 and it said that shipping was $5.95, if I wanted the item I would pay for the auction, but what I would expect is that the shipping costs come close to $5.95. I don&#039;t want to get my coin in a $0.59 padded envelope with $2.00 postage. Where did my other $3.36 go? ebay specifically says that you cannot include costs for gas, standing in line at the post office, printing costs, labels, etc, in shipping costs. If it did cost you $3.36 to cover gas, time spent at the post office, heck even the time you spent makeing the label and putting together the envelope, those costs should be included in the price of the item. So the starting price should have been $4.35. If you can&#039;t sell the item for $4.35 then either your overhead is too high, or there is no demand in the market. </p><p><br /></p><p>What this comes down to is sellers are trying to make up for the ebay fees in the shipping costs so they can look like they are selling products at low prices. This is wrong, it&#039;s fruad against ebay (your not paying the fees for an item that you should be), it&#039;s fruad against the IRS (you have unreported income, how many sellers tell the IRS that they made $3.36 off handling?), and it&#039;s fruad against the consumers (you are hideing the true cost of an item in its shipping fees).</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it looks like I&#039;m makeing a big stink over $2.00 but what if I bought something for $100 and the shipping was $20.00? After all the postage and packaging what if the &quot;handleing&quot; cost was $10.00? That&#039;s a little more outrageous. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve said it before, and I truly mean this... I do not want the seller to eat the shipping costs. If it cost $5.95 to ship something I will gladly pay it. But I do not want to pay cost that should be included in the cost of the item for sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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