Shipping Rant

[Thomas]

So there's this page that I like on someone's website for 65.00. I email them asking about shipping to me in Canada and they replied saying they charge a flat fee of 18.00 for shipping.

 

I just received a page from the US and it says 5.70 US. I just mailed 6 pages to someone in the US and it cost me 8.95 Canadian.

 

I can't see how these people charge so much for shipping a piece of paper. There's no way I am paying a 1/3 of the price of this page just for shipping. Not only that, there's a guy on ebay that charges 30.00 to ship one page to Canada. I don't know how many pages he sells to us but I bet it isn't many.

 

[the_changing_man]

Try living in the UK

 

Dynamic forces charged me $ 65 for 1 comic once....never again ( and it wasnt even slabbed FFS )

 

tell him you want it mounted with museum quality glass and its a deal

[Jeffro.]

So there's this page that I like on someone's website for 65.00. I email them asking about shipping to me in Canada and they replied saying they charge a flat fee of 18.00 for shipping.

 

 

That's because people can charge whatever they like for shipping and use justifications like "I need to pay the electric bill" or "I have three daughters" in college of whatever.

 

I'm not saying that charge is necessarily too high, but I know for a fact that some people will charge whatever they think they can get. Justified or not.

[Ares]

Maybey shipping costs include cost of packaging

[fable]

I know what you mean about UK shipping - you pay through the nose and then get a duty charge (on art) most of the time

 

Lucky customs cannot touch our comics

[the_changing_man]

I know what you mean about UK shipping - you pay through the nose and then get a duty charge (on art) most of the time

 

Lucky customs cannot touch our comics

 

I've only bought OA from Europe and it has never been *that* expensive to get hit yet....i'd totally forgotten i'd be liable for customs charges for any substantually priced pieces

 

Better take that into consideration with my current watch list!!

[comicartfan]

that is simply fleecing....when someone charges like that, then hides behind "shipping and handling" , then the package arrives in a priority box (which is free from post office) and it states it cost 4.30 to ship - basically, these people are no better than going into a gas station and shoving a gun into a clerk's face and robbing them.....not as violent, but still wrong.

[fable]

I bought a set of pages from the US for around £360 and had a customs charge of around £60 - now i only buy from places that will mark the value down and take a risk on the insurance.

[Thomas]

I was just thinking that the high costs of shipping actually might hurt the bottom line on the final auction price.

 

For example there's a page on ebay now that I'm interested in but noticed the seller wants 25.00 to ship it to Canada. (He's a fellow comicart-l member as well). I would've normally bid on this piece and if I won, the seller would've received a higher final price and had I not won, the seller still realizes a higher final price as I would've pushed up other bidders. Without my bidding he will realize a lower final selling price (I hope).

 

Realizing this makes me feel a little better about sellers ripping off buyers with shipping. Only a little.