This is what I don't understand about eBay sometimes

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Must of been that "wood chip on the back", that killed the deal!:wtf: Go figure!
 
There is no rhyme or reason on eBay. 1 bid vrs 45, how does that happen?
 
Higher priced one did use larger pictures and more of them.

Is a picture worth 1000 words or several hundred dollars?

Maybe both!

Cheers! :)
 
eBay is just that crazy. One thing about the lower ending price one is that the shipping is insultingly high. I won't even follow an auction with stupid shipping like that. I might send one message to the seller informing him of a better/lower cost shipping method, but I'm even getting tired of doing that much work for it. The other thing you had going on with the higher price one was one stubborn buyer and one highly interested one. Once people start fighting over something on eBay its a seller's dream come true. That's a great mixer and easily worth $350.00 in excellent condition... which neither one of those were.
 
I use the "calculate charges"option on Ebay.Ebay's shipping charges are all over the map.I recently sold OB-X.Ebay said $75 to ship,(weight and dim weight), to the East Coast.I charged a extra $100 for packing.Took it to a UPS store for packing so they would be responsible if it was damaged during shipment.Total packing shipping/charge,almost $400.Yeah, I know UPS store-but the UPS hub wanted over $250 to ship it packed.The same UPS hub charged $18 to ship a empty 7" reel to the East Coast.I'm open to suggestions on how to find better/cheaper shipping charges,but not a big fan of USPS-especially the time,money and hassle it takes to get anyone to help/take responsibility when there is shipping damage.
 
We have a regular FedEx Express pick-up at work, and we get discount rates...so I just have one of the girls that holds the FedEx account do up the FedEx charge for me, and I give the office a check for the amount.
I've shipped guitar amps cross-country with FedEx priority overnight for like $50. :)

AFA as "understanding" eBay....don't bother trying. Just roll with each listing as it falls.
If I find a seller who is an idiot with idiotic prices/terms...I just move on rather than try to reason with him, though there have been many times when I've sent them a message saying the price is too high or the shipping is too much...and they make an adjustment and we complete the deal. I'm a real good haggler on eBay. :D

I don't get mad if it doesn't work out. It just wasn't meant to be....and there will be another in most cases, you just have to wait a bit.
 
wkrbee said:
Took it to a UPS store for packing so they would be responsible if it was damaged during shipment.Total packing shipping/charge,almost $400.
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Holy Hell! I could ship an OB-X inside a granite coffin for less than that! :facepalm: :D


I've become an expert packer and try to charge as little as possible, even making handling charges part of the final price rather than tacking it on. So I only charge actual shipping cost... no handling. People will bid more when you treat them well. There's nothing worse than finding a good deal and then see it turn into not such a good deal because of crazy high shipping. I don't like that as a buyer, so I won't do it as a seller either.

cjacek has a great sticky on packing up top of this forum. I'm not afraid to ship anything and I've never had anything damaged that I sent.

https://homerecording.com/bbs/gener...-your-recorder-mixer-arrive-one-piece-229729/
 
A couple of years back I had a pretty large sell-off on eBay, and I was doing free shipping, since I was getting REALLY great rates with FedEx.

But with the eBay costs going up, and getting a little burned a couple of times with flat rates and real far away destination....now I charge for it, but I'm still one of the more reasonable guys around.
Typical would be flat rates to anywhere in the CONUS, and I would do something like a piece of rack gear (figure under 20 lbs) for like $15-$20, depending on the items and it's cost/value.
I shipped a Traynor 100W head and a 412 cab (two packages) to Florida for like $125 total...and they were about 130lbs total.

I hate the guys who charge $15 for the item and want $35 to ship it.....or you have the ones who charge $100 for a guitar and $300 to ship it. The logic is, eBay doesn't collect on the shipping charge, so they devalue the item and then make up for with the shipping....more money in their pockets. In the end, it doesn't matter to the buyer I guess, if the guitar is really worth the $400 total, but I don't know how eBay doesn't clamp down on that...seeing how lately they try to control everything. You can't even send someone your direct email without some creative typing in their message system.
 
eBay actually did put an end to how sellers would flip item value and shipping cost. For a while now they take the same cut from shipping costs as they do the final value fee. That was really offensive to those of us who've been honest with shipping all these years. Some sellers don't realize eBay changed that policy, so now and then I still see someone swapping the values.

I must have reported hundreds of those over the years... and the thanks I get from eBay is to be grouped in with the rest of them and now get a percentage taken out of my shipping fee. Bastards! One day... the next revolution we have I want to get my hands on the actual people at eBay, facebook and others making these decisions; these invisible, unreachable powers that be who are insulated by all these underlings that don't even know who they are. I imagine its going to be a bit like Nazi hunting after WWII... hope so anyway! :)

Bitter? Who me? Nah, I'm too busy plotting my revenge to ever be bitter! ;)
 
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