3 Feb
2014
3 Feb
'14
8:41 a.m.
In any event I agree that $14 for a manual(s) seems really excessive since
you can use media mail rates and get considerably cheaper shipping (albeit
slower).
I will point out one thing though... eBay's listing process is really
annoying now as a seller as you have to give it dimensions of your
packaging and weight of the item before the beginning of the auction. It's
quite possible that the seller packaged the items individually beforehand
due to this and doesn't want to create additional work for themselves
repacking sold items especially if it's something they're not making a lot
of money off of to begin with.
Still, I agree the reaction is ridiculous, and if they were paid they
should be required to follow through with the original deal.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
On Feb 2, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
> That?s a very old trick among low grade mail
order outfits. Real
businesses$
Actually, no, it can be reasonable to refuse to combine shipping if the
products are shipping from different places.
Of course, and I said so about a sentence or two away from the text you
quoted.
Similarly, real outfits will ship separately if some items are backordered
-- or they may give you a choice to have separate shipments or to get the
whole order in one shipment later.
As for the explanation someone suggested that things might have been
packaged up ahead of time -- that's not all that plausible but it's
possible. If so, though, the only reasonable reply is "no, because".
Canceling the auction simply because someone *asks* for combined shipping
is plainly inexcusable.
paul