billd420 said:
Bibliophile- I did put a lot of thought into my post before I said anything. I don't feel that salinpac was in the wrong here, and thats where my stance stays.
If you walked into walmart, and they asked $100 for a table and chairs, would you honestly try and haggle them down to $80?
If you purchased a book off of amazon.com, and they wanted $20 for shipping, would you write to them asking for a more reasonable shipping rate?
How is it appropriate that after the terms were laid out very clearly within ebay that the buyer then asks for a different final price?
Yeah, maybe his $25 shipping is a little overboard. Yeah, its pretty dick-ish that he won't combine it, however its the principal that I'm discussing here. Entering into the bidding contract means you agree to the terms. You can't decide after you've won the auction that you dont' like the terms.
As far as I'm concerned, the buyer should either bite the bullet, and be more mindful next time around, or come to an agreement with the seller to not carry out the transaction.
For the record, my past has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion at hand. Just because some of you dont' like me doesn't me that my opinion is null and void. (I'm using "you" in general here, not just you Bibliophile)
-Bill
There is no cart (not CPS2, HNG64, MVS, AES, etc) that costs $25 to ship. But while $25 may be excessive to ship cart, that is not my point here at all.
I don't think Salinpac is wrong for charging $25 to ship one cart (even though it is excessive), because Hewitson knew that was the shipping cost for one cart when he bid. If he didn't like it, he should not have bid.
But the seller is being unreasonable by refusing to combine shipping: that is my point. True, he never stated that he would do so. True, it is always good practice to ask the seller if he combines shipping rather than assuming he does. But even after the fact, he is being an a**hole for not combining shipping. I have bought from many ebay sellers who never mention combining shipping but who do it anyway. It is being reasonable.
Your analogy regarding Amazon.com doesn't make sense. Assume they charge $6.95 to ship a book. If a buyer buys ten books, does Amazon charge $69.50 to ship all ten books? No, they put all the books in one package in ship them together at maybe $9.95, $10.95, something like that. If they insisted on charging $6.95 per books, it might work once. After that, they will drive everyone away and earn a reputation for being a lousy seller. That is what Salinpac is doing here: he is going to drive everyone on this site to not do business with him.
Even on ebay, he can will only be able to pull it off once per buyer before they decide not to do business with him again. Or he will get negative feedback or poor seller ratings, or both.
I don't really care, as I am not losing either way. But it shows that the seller is a lousy seller.
Hopefully, Hewitson will learn his lesson from this and not assume that ebay sellers will combine shipping. But if he feels that salinpac is a lousy seller for refusing to combine shipping, he has every right to complain. And that is what he is doing.
And just for the record, Bill, whether or not I like you has never really factored into my viewpoint above because it has not been relevant. My only reason for bringing up your past was because you seemed to discount what I was saying because "A) isn't a mod, B) hasn't been here for even a year and C) has less than 500 posts on these forums." But you sometimes say things that make me (and others) wonder if you consider ethics as a part of selling or not.
i pitty da fool....
Just wow. That was probably racist. 
