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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dot, post: 159476, member: 6394&quot;]<b>I&#039;ll add my two cents</b></p><p><br /></p><p>First off, please all sellers read this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/30/BUGTGKRHSF1.DTL" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/30/BUGTGKRHSF1.DTL" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/30/BUGTGKRHSF1.DTL</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a story about a guy who, upon trying to cash a check for an item he sold (not ebay, but easily could have been), was arrested right in the bank because the check was fraudulent.&nbsp; So now it&#039;s not only buyer beware, but seller beware too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for s/h prices, I&#039;m of the opinion that it&#039;s perfectly fine to add &quot;handling&quot; charges to the s/h (that&#039;s what the &quot;h&quot; is there for).&nbsp; Depending on one&#039;s situation, there is cost associated with packing and transporting items to post office or whatever.&nbsp; Time, also.&nbsp; It&#039;s up to the seller to figure the charge into their total and decide whether it&#039;s acceptable to them.&nbsp; Ebay get&#039;s plenty of $$ as it is from seller&#039;s fees.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I see seller&#039;s who offers &quot;free s/h&quot; I wonder why they think they need an &quot;extra edge&quot; on the competition.&nbsp; Not denying that there&#039;s a psychological impact of the word &quot;FREE&quot; in an ad, and that I&#039;ve bought from sellers who, all other things being equal, offered free s/h, just sayin&#039; to evaluate why they are taking that strategy (in other words, check their feedback well).</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, regarding feedback: it&#039;s true that people are quite often afraid to leave honest feedback because of retribution and don&#039;t want their own feedback dinged.&nbsp; So, read the comments carefully, and in particular, read the words that ARE NOT there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a funny story: I bought something last week (3 items from the same seller) and the seller left me feedback BEFORE I had even paid for the items! LOL, they were really lucky I was an honest person!</p><p><br /></p><p>As a seller, I don&#039;t leave feedback for the buyer until I know that they have recieved the item and have left feedback for me.&nbsp; I&#039;m always surprised when sellers leave feedback for me saying that I &quot;paid quickly&quot;.&nbsp; It&#039;s nice, but they leave themselves open to problems -- because what if I were a jerk who said I never recieved the item, or that it was broken, or not well packed, or whatever --it&#039;s best to wait until the entire transaction is complete before leaving feedback.&nbsp; IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing: as a buyer, I almost never will buy unless the seller takes Paypal.&nbsp; I know there are problems with paypal, and that some people refuse to use it.&nbsp; You can tell which people don&#039;t take it, because they have to sell their items at lower prices than everyone else, to get business.&nbsp; Even then I won&#039;t buy from them.&nbsp; I&#039;m too much into immediate gratification, lol.&nbsp; Also, as a seller I only use Priority shipping, for the same reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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