I've been doing some selling on E-bay, and a good amount of ordering online
in general. There is some real variety in shipping rates. E-bayers
often include all of the costs of shipping as a shipping cost, and a private
individual or small home-based business may not pay the same inexpensive
rates for shipping materials that large companies do. For instance, a
padded envelope costs me a dollar. It may cost a big company a few cents.
If people use adhesive labels, those cost atleast 50 cents apiece.
A private individual selling off a few things that may be worth a little bit
of money to raise funds is also going to be mroe worried than a large
company about backing up the package against something going wrong, and will
insist on buying insurance, proving they shipped it, and verifying delivery,
and that sort of thing, and will not leave that up to the buyer, because of
course someone who is going to commit fraud isn't going to pay out to
protect the seller.
You also have to realize that some people put part of the cost of shipping
in the price of the item itself, to avoid having the shipping cost put
people off, and others do not.
I wonder if you also realize how expensive it is to ship things in general.
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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From: "Cherry Knobloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:57 AM
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] Postage costs
Like Clay, I've noticed the outrageous prices on Ebay for shipping, and I
too miss the old days. There seems to be a lot of commercial selling going
on. An
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