Originally Posted by dunster
IMHO, shipping consists of more than the price to actually mail the item. It can legitimately include the packing materials, your cost in getting the item to the post office/mailing store, as well as your time in safely packaging the item. Sometimes it's obvious that the seller is trying to make up for a cheap sales price by inflating the shipping charge, but that's not the only reason for a big shipping fee. If I were going to ship a sewing machine, I would be putting a lot of time and effort into safely packing it, and I would feel perfectly justified charging for that.
Exactly!
Buyers need to read what the description says about the item and certainly what the shipping and handling fee is and if it is more than they are willing to pay for it they need to move on and allow those that are willing to pay it to do so.
eBay is a business for most sellers on there today. The days of dumping our garage sell stuff that even our neighbors do not want to buy has been over with for many years on eBay.
eBay became a business to business venue way back in 2001 on.