Thread: I feel like an idiot!

That's a lot more reasonable. Wonder what prompted that drastic of a change? Don't bid too early. Wait til the last 10 seconds and make your best bid. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

At some point last year I started noticing ridiculous shipping costs listed on ebay for items coming from the USA into Canada. I contacted a couple of sellers who explained that the estimate was the result of a wonky automatic calculation. Can't recall whether it was ebay or USPS that was responsible for the error. I wonder if this is something similar? As has been suggested, contacting the seller may quickly resolve the issue. And if it doesn't then that is clearly an insane markup on actual shipping costs.

Might be something I've noticed recently.

If I use Ebay dot com, the listing, regardless where it comes from, shows a reasonable shipping charge, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less depending on the service.

When I'm on, usually inadvertently, ebay dot ca, suddenly everything goes up, shipping goes up, and a calculation for custom's duties appear, which they build into the price allegedly.

I've then gone to the same listing on the dot com site, and all these additional cost disappear...don't know whether this is what's happening, but thought I'd give some input as to my recent experiences....now, this is not to say this has anything to do with sellers purposely putting shipping costs up, that's another issue I suppose....

www.ebay.com is the US site for ebay, so probably by default the sipping is calculated for US buyers.
But you are still in canada and when you are logged in your account ebay should recognize that and update those to reflect shipping to you.
I haven;t done it in a long time, but when you placed a bid you were also shown the lowest shipping charge to you before pressing the submit button. The seller can't force you to pay more later, but also you have agreed to pay that much shipping and ebay may not help you if afterwards you claim it is too much.

Or it could be that they ship using a carrier, in which case prices can skyrocket.
Sending stuff to the US via UPS or fedex is expensive

Everybody settle down here. You all know Eboy has this new thing called Global Shipping. It's in response to complaints people don't want to ship things to international buyers.

here's how it works-The seller invokes the service and it appears in the auction. It is only offered to selected countries. The item is shipped by the seller to the Eboy U.S shipping Center (Pitney Bowes run) which prepares the package for international shipping and then it's passed to fedex. If the item is lost once it reaches the shipping center the seller has no liability at all. It's very expensive. Shipping a small item to Europe can cost around $100.

If you ship overseas and worry about tracking and insurance it's the only solution unless you ship very low value items or don't care.

On principle I stay away from any listing promising "Global Shipping" since it involves Fedex. Been dinged once by exorbitant "brokers fees" using a courier service for international shipping, Gun shy for sure.

Bob

See http://straightrazorpalace.com/aucti...07045-ups.html

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

On principle I stay away from any listing promising "Global Shipping" since it involves Fedex. Been dinged once by exorbitant "brokers fees" using a courier service for international shipping, Gun shy for sure.

Bob

See http://straightrazorpalace.com/aucti...07045-ups.html

Bob

You're not alone. UPS brokerage fees are completely bonkers, and are the sole reason why I almost always refuse to buy anything internationally that ships via UPS. For example, when The Admiral arrived, they imposed a brokerage fee of over $100. I was able to negotiate that down, but it was the proverbial straw as far as my relationship with UPS goes. Too bad.

There have been a couple of class action lawsuits against UPS over brokers fees United Parcel Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but I don't think there has been a final determination yet.

Bob

A little imagination and a good friend in the country where the item originates should solve that shipping dilemma! Come on guys, think! :-)

Originally Posted by AirColorado

A little imagination and a good friend in the country where the item originates should solve that shipping dilemma! Come on guys, think! :-)

That would work but in my case I don't need anything off the bay that badly that I would trouble a friend for. Unless the vendor offers USPS shipping at reasonable cost I just ignore it.

Bob