Anyone else buy from this seller???

[Maria]

Wow. She’s honest, all right.

[lamortefille]

I do the same thing, drag0nfeathers – factor in the shipping cost as part of the total price I am willing to pay for something. It can be a gamble though. The Post Office (somebody else can chime in for the other shipping services, since I don’t know their policies) will only reimburse you for the actual shipping/insurance costs if something happens to your package, so you stand to lose some of those inflated shipping costs if you have to make a claim.

It’s actually against eBay rules to overly inflate shipping costs. Ebay doesn’t like it because they don’t make the money on the Listing and Final Value fees.

[Andrea]

You can turn in a complaint to EBay for inflated shipping. Especially since you have it in writing… You could actually get a refund on part of the shipping.
If you are bored and want a challenge 😆

[PhoenixTears]

I was wondering about certain auction shipping costs too. There was (maybe still is at the moment), someone who is selling 3 peacock dragon pieces- a mama, a male and that teeeny tiny little hatchling. Each of them had $18.50 for their shipping wihtin the US. I didnt understand why they would charge that same shipping for that tiny hatchling as they were asking for the larger peacocks. None of them sold the first time they went up.

Ive shipped a mama dragon and it is $18.30 (was for me) to send. But seriously… that tiny hatchling?! Ive sent individually, a Young Dragon, a Panther Gargoyle and a Hatching Emperor for less!

[Maria]

Have you received the Spectral yet, drag0n?

[David]

lamortefille wrote:

The Post Office (somebody else can chime in for the other shipping services, since I don’t know their policies) will only reimburse you for the actual shipping/insurance costs if something happens to your package, so you stand to lose some of those inflated shipping costs if you have to make a claim.

The following paragraph is incorrect – see later message.
Actually, the Post Office does NOT reimburse shipping fees or insurance costs except on items sent by Express Mail. All you could get from a claim for a damaged or missing item sent by Priority Mail is the value of the contents. UPS, on the other hand, will reimburse the value of the item plus the shipping costs. But that is still the actual cost of shipping, which obviously does not include the “handling fee” which is the problem on these inflated charges.

Also, the Post Office will issue the reimbursement to either the sender or the recipient (whichever is indicated on the claim form), but UPS will only issue a reimbursement to the sender.

[Skigod377]

The Castle [Dave wrote:

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lamortefille wrote:

The Post Office (somebody else can chime in for the other shipping services, since I don’t know their policies) will only reimburse you for the actual shipping/insurance costs if something happens to your package, so you stand to lose some of those inflated shipping costs if you have to make a claim.

Actually, the Post Office does NOT reimburse shipping fees or insurance costs except on items sent by Express Mail. All you could get from a claim for a damaged or missing item sent by Priority Mail is the value of the contents. UPS, on the other hand, will reimburse the value of the item plus the shipping costs. But that is still the actual cost of shipping, which obviously does not include the “handling fee” which is the problem on these inflated charges.

Also, the Post Office will issue the reimbursement to either the sender or the recipient (whichever is indicated on the claim form), but UPS will only issue a reimbursement to the sender. The two times I made a claim through USPS, I got my shipping costs back. I didnt use express, either… just regular USPS.

[lamortefille]

The Castle [Dave wrote:

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lamortefille wrote:

The Post Office (somebody else can chime in for the other shipping services, since I don’t know their policies) will only reimburse you for the actual shipping/insurance costs if something happens to your package, so you stand to lose some of those inflated shipping costs if you have to make a claim.

Actually, the Post Office does NOT reimburse shipping fees or insurance costs except on items sent by Express Mail. All you could get from a claim for a damaged or missing item sent by Priority Mail is the value of the contents. UPS, on the other hand, will reimburse the value of the item plus the shipping costs. But that is still the actual cost of shipping, which obviously does not include the “handling fee” which is the problem on these inflated charges.

Also, the Post Office will issue the reimbursement to either the sender or the recipient (whichever is indicated on the claim form), but UPS will only issue a reimbursement to the sender.

I have had two or three claims with the Post Office (Priority Mail) and have always been reimbursed the shipping and insurance charges. I took the package, the proof of insurance (obtained from the seller), proof of the item’s cost (printed the eBay auction) and was issued a Postal Money Order a week or so later for the total. Maybe they weren’t supposed to give me anything but the cost of the item, but they did. *shrugs*

Edit: I looked it up and most likely I was refunded just the shipping costs as per the USPS website. My bad…

[David]

skigod377 wrote:

The two times I made a claim through USPS, I got my shipping costs back. I didnt use express, either… just regular USPS.

Either I have been working on old information, or I have simply been mistaken for the past umpety-blump years. I looked into it and although the claim process is different for Express than for regular mail, you are right; you can get the shipping fees refunded on a regular package:

Quote:

Domestic Mail Manual
609.5.4 Loss or Total Damage

“If the insured, registered, or COD article is lost or the entire contents totally damaged, the payment includes an additional amount for the postage (not fee) paid by the sender. Postage for Express Mail is refunded under 604.9.5.”

Many thanks for correcting me on this. I have no idea whether the couple of claims I’ve had to make against the Post Office included this or not; I just filed the claims, sent replacement packages to the customers, and didn’t think much about it afterwards.

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