what is up with eBay shipping?

[Touchdown038]

Anybody else think that sellers on eBay are getting ridiculous with the prices of shipping these days? I noticed on szhosain's thread about the Infiniti grounding kit that the shipping was $18.99! What the hell!?

I sent out a decent sized box to my family a couple of days ago for around $5, so I'm thinking there's some BS here....

Lets hear what everybody else thinks about this.

[lookatme!]

alot of times people know they arent going to get what hey want for the item they have for sale, so they set a jacked up shipping price to compensate for it.

[Onizuka]

Thats the new tactic nowadays, i think its BS too.

[krazy skwerel]

I swear pay 5 bucks for a part and 15 for shipping. So lame.

[Cyberkreig]

shipping & HANDLING. You are paying some lazy ebay cheat $14.50 to stuff your part in a box full of crumpled newspaper and drive to the UPS store with the 50 other boxes of junk he sold.

money well earned. :rolleyes

[Bunta240]

Those damn UPS stores ripped me off a couple times though. One I went there to ship something out. They charged me 5 dollars to package it and 30 to ship. Later I did the packaging and gave my package to a friend that has UPS daily pickup, shipping cost 18 bucks.