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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Duke Kavanaugh, post: 986269, member: 20544&quot;]I was just meaning that I think this is an issue that is possible that it follows the party lines more then I would have thought before reading this whole topic.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that I dont want to get a political argument going so I will refrain from talking about it more. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1. &quot;OK. Regardless if a detailed shipping policy is spelled out or not. I think a lot here are missing a marketing point.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>To your first point yes this can be a good marketing point. But that is and should be up to the company/seller to use or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. &quot;A buyer will never complain about shipping charges if the shipping is categorized as free. Agreed?&quot;</p><p>True but a buyer will never complain about a purchase price if you give it away for free too...should all of ebay be free?</p><p><br /></p><p>3. &quot;A seller who has no complaints about shipping costs, has one less customer service category to worry about when selling. Agreed?&quot;</p><p>Agreed. But again a seller who gives their stuff away free has one less customer service catetory to worry about too...so with your argument you can still argue that it should all be free...</p><p><br /></p><p>4. &quot;A seller wants to build a customer base. Agreed?&quot;</p><p>Yep agreed too. And again relate that same blanket statement you made to other things like you could give it away free so as to BUILD your customer base.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. &quot;A seller loves repeat buyers? Agreed?&quot;</p><p>Agreed again. But same blanket comments that can be transposed to then give it away free. </p><p><br /></p><p>6. &quot;A buyer may be more inclined to shop a seller who offers free shipping? Agreed?&quot; </p><p>Yes agreed again!! Your good <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But you should give it away free as someone else might be selling it cheaper and so free means they would never go somewhere else!! Better save then sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. &quot;Time is money. Agreed?&quot;</p><p>Sure is, that&#039;s 7 out of 7 Agreed but the question is is that money going up or down in value? It can go both ways and many ebay auctions loose money for sellers. </p><p><br /></p><p>8. &quot;Less time dealing with complaints is more money made. Agreed?&quot;</p><p>You bowled a perfect game!! Pitched a no hitter!! You got it!! 8 out of 8 Agreed!!</p><p>But again less complaints if you give it away free <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> So go on put your stuff on the bay for free with free shipping and I&#039;ll click the buy it now all day long and you&#039;ll have your &quot;no complaint&quot; &quot;customer base&quot; &quot;repeat buyers&quot; &quot;high satisfaction&quot; ect...</p><p>But what you wont have is money or your goods.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is what this leads down to is it&#039;s the sellers stuff and it&#039;s their choice to run it with free shipping or $3 shipping or $20 shipping. And as usual it can be and will be abused but that&#039;s what the free market place is for. DONT BUY FROM THEM if you dont like it or this it&#039;s too high. </p><p>Its very easy to do...</p><p>But it is up to the seller to put up his/her terms not yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Case in point I hate AT&amp;T&#039;s service...they have long term contracts, high costs and lousy service. I&#039;d like them to fix it but they didn&#039;t so they loose customers. </p><p>There are plenty on ebay like this so just don&#039;t shop there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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