$16.00 Shipping For One Card...

JackWESQ

Auction for a 1934 Goudey Lou Gehrig PSA 5. SMR is $1750. Granted
this is a high dollar card (well to me, it is a high dollar card), but the
seller wants $16.00 for shipping and handling. This got me wondering,
what's the most you have ever seen for shipping and handling for one
card? As a buyer, would you be concerned that the "entire card" is not
pictured? Here is the link.

/s/ Jack

1934 Goudey Lou Gehrig PSA 5

Aknot

It might be because of "size" constrainrts with Ebay. I would ask for an email of the scan. The price includes insurance. He has "decent" feedback.

His shipping may also have been "left over" from a "lot" using the same template. I do that (use the same template).

**EDIT** look at his other 2 auctions. the "pictures" are the same. I think it is "Ebay".

spacktrack

$117 S&H for a card.

Guy had the BIN at $3 and shipping at $117 for a card. Total = $120. Value of the card: approx $100.

Nobody took the bait.

Aknot

The one you mention may have been to avoid the Ebay fees. They do not charge on the FVF on the Shipping. Just the sale price correct?

Knlsportsandmore

16.00 for a card of that value is not really that high. Priority shipping would be 3.85. Insurance for 1700.00 would be 12 to 15.00 dollars.

iamthegreatcornholio

Per request, I've mailed cards next day air UPS with insurance ($7,000) and the cost was about $50. I think it's relative - insurance costs about 1%.

Edited to add: Aknot you're right, but once they find out someone doing that, they'll be out faster than a fat kid in dodgeball.

Allen

I recieved a Mantle/ Maris auto that was shipped Insured for $600 with tracking and signature confrimation and it was $11.85 so it is possible.

WinPitcher

I paid milehigh 6.00 last nite for shipping on a card i won for 28.00...........that was the highest I ever paid.....before that it was 4.95

i didnt realise shipping was 6.00 until after the auction
I dont think ill be buying from them anytime soon

ctsoxfan

There was a clueless fellow with a 1984 Mattingly Donruss RC ending tonight. His S&H was $51.00! for this one "rare" card!

Also, the only way you could buy it was his BIN price of - ready: $699.00!

Some people just don't get it.

CON40

I paid mile high 6.00 last nite for shipping on a card i won for 28.00

I guess Brian Drent named his business after his shipping rates! LOL!

Buckwheat

Shipping of $15 on an insured $1500 card will result in a loss to the shipper. Insurance on $1500 is $16.20, before teh mailing cost. If he uses Registered mail, it will be about the same once you pay the shippping, then the $8 registered fee, and about $5 for insurance.

Usually a flat $6 fee for shipping is due to using UPS, and still may not result in any "profit" to the seller. Usually when shipping is this much, it doesn't matter how many cards you win, or the value. It is a flat rate fee. Just figure it into your bid.

RobE

On 1500 for shipping I lost about $35 from Paypal fees and then ebay fees.The result was pretty much in line with the above statement.In the end I paid for shipping out of the loss that was already in place on the final price despite the amount the cards sold for.

WinPitcher

The 6.00 fee I am to pay (or have paid) was for USPS/insured lets see now 1.20 insurance and 47 cents possibly 83 for the stamp Ill also say 10 cents for the mailer......by my math that is around 2.00...4.00 is for handling..........had it been for UPS I would have understood and in most cases I will add any postage/handling into my bid.


Shipping, Handling & Insurance Rates

for Winning Bid-First Item Only

$1-199.99 ($6.00 USPS)

seems a tad excessive, could be seller is factoring in grading fees? oh wait that was in another thread.

RobE

I charge $2.50 + 1.30 for singles insured up to $50.

Right now I have to go to Office Max and buy Bubblers by 25 since I can't be frugal and ship with used ones.(Not a buyer at the moment)

Either way,I think it's a fair price at $3.80.

On multiple items and insurance over $50 I try to keep it reasonable.

magellan

<< <i>I paid milehigh 6.00 last nite for shipping on a card i won for 28.00 >>



Win , I won a card from them last night also .....$32 & the $6 SH. I had noticed the SH charge before bidding so I factored it into my bid but I still don't like the practice. I paid Higbee's $7 or 8 for shipping one card last month, comes in a big box with peanuts, etc from UPS ........very well packed but he could have sent in a bubble mailer via USPS for 1/3 the cost . I still don't get the UPS/FEdex fascination. Here in rural America, the postal service is faster AND more reliable....no packages left in the rain or at a neighbors house and they don't bother to call you. </end of pet peeve rant>

goodriddance189

Higbee's.....THAT'S the company that tried to stiff me with a $7 shipping charge for one graded card. i emailed them saying that i would add up shipping charges, packing materials, etc, and if it came out lower i would contact ebay. anything over $3 for a card, regardless of fancy packaging, is overkill and a ripoff

valion87

Learned the hard way on combined shipping that didn't happen.

Bought 15 lots from a seller with $2 shipping each lot in hopes they would combine. My fault for not asking first and after a few emails I ended up paying $30 shipping for 30 cards and gave them a piece of my mind in doing so. Never again. Hurts to even bring it up again!

Scumbi

This shipping nonsense is a huge racket. I think ebay should provide its own shipping cost as an option at US postal rates and a choice of packaging at a small cost. This would stop any unfair practices. This way sellers would be permitted a certain charge or you could just select ebay. Ebay is already skimming with auction fees, commissions and Paypal fees. Let them do something to retain some small modicum of integrity. Caveat emptor is fine, but inflated postal costs are not part of an open market.

Also, we have to stop buying from jerk-offs that continue to profit on shipping. That is our responsibility. Bidding is often emotional and we just don't check. I'd like to see the postal cost displayed more prominently.

It always amazes me what lengths scmbags will go to for an extra dollar. It's sickening.