$8.85 to ship an X-Box game? What to do, what to do?

[spoon]

I won this auction last night:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3081648556

The seller wants to charge me $8.85 to ship it. I think that is kinda of steep. I can see $5.00 tops. $3.85 to ship priority and the extra $1.15 for his time and gas, aqs some people like to charge for.

What would you tell the seller?

I was thinking of telling him I am also a seller on e-bay and I know that $8.85 is a bit much to ship, unless, it is coming overnight.

[Gamereviewgod]

Well, by bidding, you did agree to the terms. It sucks and it is a load of crap, but I doubt there's much you can do. He'll probably ship it media too... x_x

[jonjandran]

It comes up as $8.85 for me to.
I'd e-mail him and offer $5 , maybe the $8.85 is a mistake.

But if he insist on $8.85 then you really can't complain. It was stated beforehand, all you had to do was enter your zipcode and hit the calculate button. :o

[KirbyStar27]

Wel if the auction goes cheap then the shipping cant be to bad unless he gave you the price after the auction was over!!

[MarioAllStar2600]

You got a good deal. pay the shipping, and just never buy from him again.

[Griking]

You know, I've always thought it would be great for ebay to offer a service called "total cost" or something like that. Basically it would list exactly how much it would cost to purchase the item including shipping. Now I understand that this would only work for auctions that have set shipping rates but I really think that it would be helpful for bidders who want to compare apples to apples when bidding on an item. If nothing else you'd probably see a tremendous drop in people who charge $20.00 shipping for one game.

[spoon]

I got the guy down to $5.00 dollars. He said he put in $5.00 in the shipping calculator, not sure how it came up $8.85. :hmm:

[captain nintendo]

Thats cool. You made out pretty good on the game overall.

[Cmosfm]

You know, I've always thought it would be great for ebay to offer a service called "total cost" or something like that. Basically it would list exactly how much it would cost to purchase the item including shipping. Now I understand that this would only work for auctions that have set shipping rates but I really think that it would be helpful for bidders who want to compare apples to apples when bidding on an item. If nothing else you'd probably see a tremendous drop in people who charge $20.00 shipping for one game.

Excellent idea! I've been wanting something like this for a long time, doubt it will ever happen.

And Spoon, he said he put 5.00 in the shipping calculator....he probably put 5.00 LBs in the calculator by mistake.

[Rev. Link]

My policy is to never buy from sellers who don't give a shipping cost up front.