I believe you are completely out of line here. The shipping cost that appears on the package is not necessarily all that was paid. Besides, the increased international shipping costs were easily identifiable. I have a friend in Italy who sells a lot on ebay. Rather than shipping everything directly from Italy, he ships everything to me in large shipments that give him cheaper transatlantic costs, to then be transshipped to the final purchaser. On a bike, a direct shipment from Italy is about 200 euros (about $250), instead making one major shipment of many bikes brings the transatlantic shipment down to about $150 plus another $40 within the US. The transshipment method therefore allows the buyer to actually save quite a bit of money. If you used your logic, you would say that $190 'ripped' you off, but the numbers don't bear out in reality. If the seller didn't make it clear that the shipment was coming from overseas and tehy then popped the extreme shipping cost, you would be correct.