An ebay First!!
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Thrifty Bill

Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Mans of NC & SW UT Desert
Bikes: 86 Katakura Silk, 87 Prologue X2, 88 Cimarron LE, 1975 Sekai 4000 Professional, 73 Paramount, plus more
I just purchased, FWIW, a very nice condition Fuji LifeCycle "10th Anniversary Edition" and it was mailed fast, extremely well packed and is a beautiful old bike. The price of $125 plus $75 shipping really made it not such an incredible deal but I'm living in eastern North Carolina, where bikes of any quality whatsoever are a rarity.
If you want to read something funny just take a look at what I've just posted to ebay. If I do say so myself, this is one brutally honest ebay listing:
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_2291wt_932
If you want to read something funny just take a look at what I've just posted to ebay. If I do say so myself, this is one brutally honest ebay listing:
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_2291wt_932
+1 To the below: I almost always use a flat rate, fixed shipping charge, but I have been burned a couple of times doing so (buyer was in CA, ouch). And then the buyers that live close tend to pay too much, and some will score you low because of it (ebay's 5 point scoring system). If you are an occasional seller, the 5 point stuff does not matter. But if you want to maintain "top rated power seller" status, you have to keep a high score. Why does that matter? Ebay gives top rated power sellers a 20% discount on final auction fees.
Lately, I have started using ebay's shipping calculator.
Last edited by wrk101; 10-09-10 at 07:29 AM.
#27
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Joined: Sep 2010
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From: '82 Fuji America
Well like I said in the item description the difference between actual shipping and the $40 will be refunded. But of course you don't see that unless you look at the item description, do you? Ill-conceived I guess. I just don't want to get burned on shipping like I have before. It's only happened once but in that instance the actual shipping tuned out so much higher that I lost money. :-)
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