What is with the high shipping costs. Almost every auction you look at the seller is ripping the buyer off when it comes to shipping. I've done a bit of selling and I know what it costs to ship games/dvds. Lets look at some numbers:
Most loose games or games that come in CD/DVD style cases are shipped in bubble mailers. Where I live a bubble mailer is $0.66 when not on sale. But I can almost always find them for $0.33 (big or small). But lets pretend they are $0.66 all the time.
First class is often the cheapest way to ship, or the best deal for speed. Media mail/parcel post are sometimes cheaper. But lets say they always use first class. I have a receipt in front of me from where I shipped a DVD, in a bubble mailer, from WI to CA. It cost me $1.29 first class.
So so far we have a total of $1.95 and this is considering they couldn't get a good deal on bubble mailers and they used first class shipping.
Now lets say they need to cover their gas cost to run to the post office. So bump it up to $2.50. Unless they are one at a timing it or live really far from the post office, this $0.50 per package should easily cover it.
Now lets say they want to be paid for the trouble of preparing your package. Ok so bump it up to $3.00 and we've given them $0.50 to spend 2 minutes (if they take their sweet time) to write on your bubble mailer and take it with the rest of their packages to the post.
BUT
so many people are charging $5.00 or more for shipping 1 loose cartridge. They're making at least $2.50 profit to write on your package and take it to the post. If they do 10 packages a day and it takes them an hour to get to the post, ship the packages, and get home. Thats $25 per hour, to go to the post office! I personally know I can ride my bike the 2.5 miles from my house to the post office, ship 10 packages and bike back and be home within a half hour.
Paying more than $3.00 shipping (for a loose cartridge or CD/DVD cased game) is outrageous. Boycot sellers that rip people off on shipping. Profits should be made from reselling the items not charging people that might not know any better too much for shipping.