$100 Shipping?

[huskyvacs]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fantom-Lig...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I inquired about this item on eBay and the seller said shipping was unknown. I placed a bid even though it said $200 shipping charge (seller just made up numbers). He agreed to take it to FedEx and get a shipping quote. I just heard back today and he told me the shipping was $110. I told him there is no way that's right. He said that's what they told him.

So I said just cancel the sale. But I am wondering why is it that much? There is a guy selling a DC11 and the shipping is only $25.

 

[davevac]

shipping cost

I believe if you walk in to a FedeX or UPS store, the shipping and packaging is quite expensive. If you have access to a business account, it is much cheaper. I've had vacuums shipped to me (some quite heavy and bulky) for about $ 40 on the average. $ 200 makes no sense to me.
dave

 

[bnsd60m9200]

the ebay shipping calculator is not accurate. sometimes sellers use it to gouge customers too. aside from that, fedex and ups ship by size, not really weight. if the box is big, its gonna cost. a medium sized moving box shipped regular 3-7 day truck will cost around 80-100$ on fedex, if its 25 or 50 pounds. ups and fedex arent cheap. his estimates arent too off. UPS is cheaper and bashes up fragile items less in my experience. fedex could care less

 

[madman]

He may have asked FedEx to package it for him, in which case, $110 is in the ballpark.

 

[huskyvacs]

Damn, oh well. It gets irritating when sellers put stuff up but don't get everything ready beforehand.

 

[aaron158]

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/net...-rates-45-60-off-no-minimum-required-2296241/

ask them to try out this netpacel thing not sure how good the rates are for within the us. but here in Canada there rates were discounted quite a bit over our post office or counter rates for ups that most people would get.

i ordered a pretty large cd player off a guy on ebay the post office wanted like $40 to ship it across Canada but with netparcel it was like $26

 

[keither]

I recently had an online Ebay battle with a seller who charged me more than what the actual shipment of the item was. I followed up through USPS to obtain the true shipping charges, disputed the overcharges through PayPal and won. Sellers of this type shouldn't be allowed to be selling anything on Ebay.

 

[aaron158]

@keither surprised paypal would let u dispute that in the past were I've ran into things like that were sellers ripped me off on shipping paypal when id try open a dispute it would just auto close the dispute on me saying we don't cover that. ebay also even though they say its breaking the rules for a seller to profit off shipping when u call c/s they refuse to do anything they at most say they can send a message to the seller warning them but they refuse to help recover any of that money.

contacting sellers normally gets u some lame excuses like we added on a handling fee or that money was to buy a box for shipping it even though 90% of sellers on ebay are just reusing a box fro something else. had one guy say that and the box he used was an old fish stick box ya i'm sure u bought that box...

 

[huskyvacs]

Agreed, keither you must be a god! Because "negotiating" and "PayPal" are not two things that go together. It's either the buyer is right and the seller is wrong, or vice versa. Getting them to actually decide and be judge and jury on a dispute over a shipping charge is a pretty incredible feat. I've never heard of that happening.

No surprise he relisted the vacuum again with a $200 charge.

 

[keither]

I pleaded my case to Ebay and received multiple inconsistent run arounds with them - so I turned to PayPal , who , after hearing my case and reviewing the evidence, they opened a case and gave the seller 10 days to reply and to address the issue. The jerk elected to ignore the request for follow up , so PayPal ruled in my favor and I received a refund for the bogus shipping charges. From this day forward I would trust PayPal over Ebay in addressing and properly following up on these types of issues.