I hate to admit it, but under certain circumstances, I can be very spiteful.

I'm at the point where I just wont bid on an item with a high shipping cost. I used to bid with the shipping cost in mind. For example, if shipping is $15 and I'm willing to spend $25, I'd bid $10. That works occasionally and I've won a couple razors that way but most of the time, other bidders know this and will bid $10.50 or $11 knowing that they'll beat out those who haven't put much thought into their bid. (this is the case where someone gets outbid by 3 cents because I bid $10.03 a little before you and jump in at the end with $10.00)

Now to be able to win these, I have to bid what I wanted to spend plus one or two increments higher to match the "smarter" bidders and one more to win. Now I'm further into the razor than I really wanted to be and I'm getting a $25 item for somewhere around 30. Five dollars isn't much, I know, but these numbers are just examples. When you get into the more desirable razors you may be pushing an extra 20-50 on your bid just to ensure you win.

So why do I hate high shipping costs? I pay $10-$15 for shipping and it shows up in a flat rate box or media mail which costs about $3-5. A bit unreasonable if you ask me. So now instead of complaining, I just wont bid on an item with anything over $7 in shipping - there's just no way it costs that much if it's not international and no one ships UPS or FedEx.

In the end... and back to what I was saying about bid increments, if I didn't want to pay that much for a razor, I wouldn't. It's just that no matter how much I value or want a razor, there's always someone slightly deeper pockets.


Ok, that's all for now. As you can tell from some of my recent posts, I'm not the biggest fan of eBay or PayPal. Using these sites is like playing golf... very frustrating but for some reason I keep going back.