NICKM - I have never won off of SCP. But I did win a $500 PSA card off of another auction house and was charged $15 or $18 on top of the 15% fee. I was ready for the 15% but not the shipping rate. The card was dlvd via UPS and not registered mail...jay
<< <i>Ex: Say it costs $8 postage to ship a card, $1.10 for insurance, $1 packing materials, $1 to pay the person to package it. That's $11.10 in costs. Thus, their s&h charge in my example SHOULD be $11.10, not $14 or something. >>
OK, let's look at this from your angle, and I'll use myself as an example. I typically send in 50 card submissions. My typical packaging/shipping charge for return is $17.50. Let's go with your $8 as the postage cost. The insurance is NOT $1.10 on these because $1.10 is the USPS rate for $50.00 in value. Mine is typically $500 in value so insurance is more like around $6. The cost of their custom boxes is probably about $2. That's a total of $16 before considering paying somebody to package it, and that leaves $1.50 for that cost. So, unless I'm missing something here, it looks pretty accurate to me.
Scott >>
Every one of the numbers in my example was made up, no basis in reality. They were fudged numbers simply to fill in to each of the categories that I feel makes up the things that total together to form the true s&h cost.
The point is that nobody is saying that companies should LOSE money on s&h. But we're also saying they shouldn't MAKE money on it either. If all the costs of sending a package - including the salary of the person packing it - total (hypothetically) $10, don't charge me $20 for s&h. It's that simple.
It's worth noting here that if a company charges you for "shipping" (*NOT* "shipping and handling"), then they are REQUIRED BY LAW to charge you the exact cost, with nothing else added in.
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UBET
I too have sent in multiple submissions on the same day and wind up paying Fed Ex on each individual submission. It gets expensive.
I have found Superior shipping and handling fees to be very reasonable...
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<< <i>Ex: Say it costs $8 postage to ship a card, $1.10 for insurance, $1 packing materials, $1 to pay the person to package it. That's $11.10 in costs. Thus, their s&h charge in my example SHOULD be $11.10, not $14 or something. >>
OK, let's look at this from your angle, and I'll use myself as an example. I typically send in 50 card submissions. My typical packaging/shipping charge for return is $17.50. Let's go with your $8 as the postage cost. The insurance is NOT $1.10 on these because $1.10 is the USPS rate for $50.00 in value. Mine is typically $500 in value so insurance is more like around $6. The cost of their custom boxes is probably about $2. That's a total of $16 before considering paying somebody to package it, and that leaves $1.50 for that cost. So, unless I'm missing something here, it looks pretty accurate to me.
Scott >>
Every one of the numbers in my example was made up, no basis in reality. They were fudged numbers simply to fill in to each of the categories that I feel makes up the things that total together to form the true s&h cost.
The point is that nobody is saying that companies should LOSE money on s&h. But we're also saying they shouldn't MAKE money on it either. If all the costs of sending a package - including the salary of the person packing it - total (hypothetically) $10, don't charge me $20 for s&h. It's that simple.
It's worth noting here that if a company charges you for "shipping" (*NOT* "shipping and handling"), then they are REQUIRED BY LAW to charge you the exact cost, with nothing else added in.
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