Then there's this guy from Ebay: (Sorry it's long, but it is entertaining)
* I was buying a random turntable platter to build my RCM at the time. It closed for $.99 + $10 shipping (fixed price)
Dear austintnacious,
Hello,
In your listing, the shipping price is $10. On my invoice, the shipping price is $14.50.
Can you please fix the invoice for the correct shipping price? Thanks, Jason
Dear hi*ball,
You know the padded envelope I'm shipping this to you in costs almost $2 at Staples. eBay charges $0.50 to list the item and then takes 9% commission on both the final sale price AND the shipping price. Then Paypal takes a couple of percent plus a transaction fee. Let's just round that to $4.00 for easy sums.
BEFORE shipping costs I'm already into it for $4 to sell you something for $0.99.
Now, I could send it with a USPS medium flat rate box which would cost $11.35. Guess what, that brings my total costs to $15.35! The invoice I sent you was, what, $15.49!? With this scenario I make $0.14 from this deal.
Let's say I decide to try to make closer to the $0.99 cents you bid on the item.
I estimate shipping weight to be 3 lbs, USPS tells me that that will cost me almost $9 to ship to you via parcel post.
Now I'm ONLY down $13! Wow, I might make $2.49 from this deal after all... if I screw you out of a whopping $1.50
But wait again! All the calculations above don't include the cost of the turntable I am parting out, the effort to dis-assemble it, photograph the parts and list them and then when the item sells to package it & drive to the post office to ship it. Let's not even get into how much the Feds want to take at the end of the year.
Why don't I just throw a crisp new $50 into the package for you also. Maybe you can send me your laundry, I could have it done for you and turned around in about a week. Or hey, are you a registered charity... Maybe I could just sign everything I have over to you. Wait, all I have is debt, no surprises there doing deals like this.
Just let me know if there's anything else you need that I can pay for!
No good deed goes un-punished, eh!? There is no-one else IN THE WORLD as far as I can tell selling another Hitachi platter. You need or want one!
I am making one available to you for $0.99 + shipping and the deal is still going to COST ME MONEY even after I up the shipping cost by $4.50 and you're still not happy?
Seriously? – austintnacious
Dear austintnacious,
Seriously? I mean, SERIOUSLY?
If you want more than a dollar, start your auction for 10 bucks.
I'm not paying for additional shipping when the auction says "$10 shipping"
- hi*ball
Dear hi*ball,
Shall we just cancel the deal then?
- austintnacious
Dear austintnacious,
No, I want the item, for the price it closed for, plus the listed shipping.
- hi*ball
Dear hi*ball,
Want doesn't get bro! Especially when you're being unreasonable about it. I explained in detail how much it would cost me to send it to you and you obviously still think you're entitled to get something from me for even better than free, it costs me money to give you something.
I'm a reasonable person and I'd be happy to finish the deal, I even would have worked with you a bit but since you've been such a hard case there is no way on this planet in this life that you'll be getting the item for any less than the amount in the invoice I sent you. If you want the platter, pay the invoice. Otherwise we open a case and the deal gets cancelled, I get a ding on my seller account you don't get the part you need/want because you don't like the FACT that it'll cost $4.50 more than you thought.
Go buy the part somewhere else.
I'm not making $4.50 more in the deal, I apologize if my shipping estimate was wrong but it was wrong. Your invoice total is now $15.49.
Have a nice day!
- austintnacious
Dear austintnacious,
Ebay will be in contact with you. "Have a nice day"
- hi*ball