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Quote from: tulagirl on January 02, 2018, 08:11:16 AM So, if you don't see the money going into the packing of your item then most likely they inflated the shipping to cover their fees and gas to take your package. In which case sellers open themselves up to the danger of items being damaged in transit, which eBay *does* care about. You don't end up coming out ahead by doing a crappy job of packing, s'all I'm saying. It's to both parties benefit to ship well.
So, if you don't see the money going into the packing of your item then most likely they inflated the shipping to cover their fees and gas to take your package.
I think the problem is that she knew the shipping was $25, she happily paid it, expecting a decently packaged box, and then... this box full of smashed bent up ponies (one of whom is FRAGILE) arrives, with the postage clearly saying $11.95. I think this is not good of the seller if they shipped it out cheaper than what they charged the buyer for shipping. Yes sometimes you eat the loss as a seller if you underweighed the box, but you don't go the other way around. You build your profit into your base pricing.
If people don't include details like this in feedback, sellers continue to behave in this manner without any incentive to do differently.
eBay takes a percentage on shipping because sellers were using low 'purchase prices' with really high shipping to dodge seller's fees. Sadly.
Eh, it was a little different - sellers would deliberately list BIN's (Buy It Now's) for, say, 99¢, but the shipping would be 19$, when they wanted to sell something for 15$ and the actual shipping cost 5$. That way they'd only be paying seller's fees on the 99¢. Rolling seller fees into the shipping cost is a different kettle of fish.