12-30-2007, 09:39 PM
I'm with Richorlin-if you don't want to pay the freight, nobody is making you do it. Same thing if a store opening at 10 is not to your liking and you hit the joint that opens at 9.
I did a lot on eBay and I'd figure a minimum of $10 for packing materials (you can only recycle so many peanuts and so much bubble wrap), my fuel (I'd try to combine all my trips to the post office into one a day, and there were days when I'd be shipping out 10 boxes and some days I'd be shipping out one) and my time. You're shipping out a notebook for example, you have to pad it, secure it, seal it, label it, weigh it, etc. etc.
I'm out of it now but if I were still active the fuel alone to the post office (round trip) would be almost $10.
Obviously you don't want to pay $12 shipping on a $3 item-yeah, that's a deterrent, but unless this is the ONLY way to get it, what's the problem?
I did a lot on eBay and I'd figure a minimum of $10 for packing materials (you can only recycle so many peanuts and so much bubble wrap), my fuel (I'd try to combine all my trips to the post office into one a day, and there were days when I'd be shipping out 10 boxes and some days I'd be shipping out one) and my time. You're shipping out a notebook for example, you have to pad it, secure it, seal it, label it, weigh it, etc. etc.
I'm out of it now but if I were still active the fuel alone to the post office (round trip) would be almost $10.
Obviously you don't want to pay $12 shipping on a $3 item-yeah, that's a deterrent, but unless this is the ONLY way to get it, what's the problem?