J T wrote:
Wed, Jun 16, 2004, 6:04am lid (J.*Clarke) puts out:
Well, since you seem to think that $5 is an "unreasonable" shipping and
handling fee . . .
Missed it. Still. Yeah, sometimes $5 IS an unreasonable fee.
Sometimes not. Depends.
So you charge $15.85 for shipping then bitch about some guy on ebay
making $5? Can you say "hypocrite"?
"Making" $5? An interesting turn of phrase. I don't "make"
anything off of shipping.
Geez, talk about focussing on minutiae . . .
What it costs, that I charge. Yeah, if I
think I'm overcharged, I'd bitch. And, so would you.
No, if I think someone is charging an excessive price for something then I
just don't buy.
Don't know where you live, but here it's about 15 miles to UPS or FedEx.
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About 2 miles outside a small farm town. Closest "big" towns about
10 miles further. FedEx drop off at the local post office door, two
other places in town take FedEx and UPS (that I know of), and UPS
recently put in an office about a mile out of town. I've heard
arrangements can be made for UPS at least, to pickup at your door -
haven't checked. I only get mail at the post office, but If I got it at
home, I'd imagine I could have the mail carrier pickup up from me.
Like I said, I go to town every day, anyway. You can always make a once
a week trip, lots of eBay sellers ship weekly.
My "so-called truck" is a '79 GMC 1/2 ton pickup, small V-8, around
20 MPG, better if I try. My kid driving, around 10. Gas here $1.859,
yesterday.
I think that I perhaps see your problem.
No, no you don't. I always get this. Someone reads a post or two,
or an e-mail or two of mine, and suddently they're an expert on me and
my life. They're always wrong.
Did you work in an industry that did high-volume mass production?
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No.
Well, whatever you were doing you learned to micromanage a lot of stuff that
doesn't need to be micromanaged.
JOAT
Use your brain - it's the small things that count.
- Bazooka Joe
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