RadioBanter - View Single Post - Buying a Sony ICF SW7600GR radio from a seller on Ebay in the US.

March 10th 06, 08:58 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:

Seems a very excessive price to me,shipping charges to Canada.Heck,I
could get that woman in England to ship a small radio to me for
much,much less, (I am guessing about $20.00 or less) she has snail
mailed me some trinkets to me before,and I live in Mississippi too.Good
Luck to you with your radio when it gets to you.
cuhulin

Yes exactly!!

The truth is that I know better but I got carried away. I bid before I had read
all the shipping rules. The seller does ship via US post office for troops at APO
addresses so my request was not impossible. I suppose he was greedily looking at
the ($41-$16.29) = $24.71 profit he could make by shipping by UPS. On top of that
he just didn't give a damn if by doing so it cost me (his client) the $24.71 that he
snared plus an extra ($33.62-$4.30) = $29.32 to UPS for brokerage.

The seller's got a good business going with almost 41000 sales and not to many
complaints so I never dreamed he would actually do what he did.

We live and learn. I guess after dealing with soldiers all my life (37 years) I have
a thing or two to learn about business people.