All, I thought I would share this, as it could save you some hard earned cash.
I just won a piece of equipment off ebay, and I knew what it weighed, and it's size, when I bought it. It was to be shipped from Colorado to here in Ohio. When the auction was over, I sent in the payment, but the next day, I get an e-mail saying that UPS wanted more to ship it, than they had figured, at $16.00, and that they required $9.95 more. Well, the first thing I did was go to the UPS Stores website, and there, you can put in both city names, and zips, along with the package size, and weight. I did this, and the total came to $16.14, as I first thought, and was what the auction listed it at $16 even. I sent a message back, and stated that no, I would not pay it, and that that was against ebay rules, and if they didn't want to abide by the auction, they should refund my money, and that I would leave appropriate feedback. Two or three days passed by, with no reply from the seller, and just yesterday, I receive the package via the mail, or USPS, which I know it costed less to ship the package with. They may have saved $5 to $6 dollars, but not the $9.99 they wanted, and I still got it as quick as UPS ground estimated, but the point is, it didn't cost the $9.99 more to ship it, and it did not arrive by the requested shipper, with insurance. I didn't check with USPS to see what rate it would be, but that's what the seller pulled. I have only had this happen two or three times out of around 500 purchases from ebay, but you will run into this with some. At any rate, if they request extra money, look into it, and I can assure you, ebay don't allow this. It could possibly be true, that the seller did indeed mess up, but in this case, nope, they just wanted extra cash for what they sold. Best, Will _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
