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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 268265, member: 5719&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">That would be the same as not figuring tax into an in person purchase, where applicable-- and boy, is it applicable where I live.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">If your shipping was close to $10-- and that&#039;s not difficult these days-- I would be OK if you rounded it up to $10 to cover the padded envelope or box, etc.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">If your shipping is $10 and you throw it in an envelope with a stamp, don&#039;t expect any repeat business from me, or any feedback.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t seem to me, though, that is how you operate.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">The true bargains with &quot;free&quot; shipping are few and far between in my observation, and fewer still in numismatics.&nbsp; There are too many ways to compensate for that not the least of which is overgrading. </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I can, I have and I will.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nothing personal here, it&#039;s the way I evaluate any transaction, whether it&#039;s online or in person.&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, I don&#039;t drive all the way across town to pick up a one cent per gallon cheaper price for gasoline, either.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b>Your cost as a seller is not really of interest to me.</b>&nbsp; It&#039;s my &quot;to my door&quot; cost that I&#039;m paying and that&#039;s what I care about.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it&#039;s stated plainly and it&#039;s reasonable, and it&#039;s not asterisked and accompanied by whining about how I have to pay for your gas and the tire wear and the oil changes, plus the wear to your shoes while you&#039;re walking from the parking space to the door of the post office, plus the incremental deodorant expended while waiting on line, then I&#039;m potentially interested.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">With respect to speedy delivery, I can respect the opinion of two days to get a five star rating, but it&#039;s not something I feel I can personally subscribe to.&nbsp; I have decided to not even bother with the star ratings at all since, as the opinions expressed thus far about shipping time have illustrated, it&#039;s quite subjective.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">With respect to &quot;with shipping&quot; listings... the new version of the eBay pages, to which I have been subjected from time to time, include the shipping costs right in the listing, before you click on the listing to read the details.&nbsp; &quot;Not specified&quot; becomes a red flag to me and the odds are that the listing will not be clicked upon.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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