Re: Going price for Apple IIe/c and Mac Plus

[Scarlet Otter <SecretaryBird@MYTAILFEATHERSSoftHome.net>]

email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams) wrote in
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> I've had a few cases where the shipping I quoted was much higher than
> reality, in which cases I gave a partial refund (mainly to ease my
> conscience), though I can see why people who make a living off eBay
> might be more inclined to gouge... peronally I just won't bid on
> anything that doesn't have the S&H plainly stated in the copy.

I've become fairly accurate in my shipping estimates (it helps having an 
electronic scale for small items and a fairly accurate bathroom scale for 
the heavy stuff.)  Most of the time, nowadays, my quotes are spot-on.  When 
it does look like I might have overestimated, it is rarely a difference of 
more than $1.00, not significant enough to be worth worrying over.

In the rare instances where I seriously overestimated, I will either:

A: Refund the difference, if the buyer paid via PayPal

B: Try to up the package weight with a bit of extra protective padding in 
order to bring the postage up to what I had originally estimated

C: Use some of the excess postage for insurance (if the buyer didn't 
originally pay for insurance)

D: Add the buyer to my little "customer database"...Er...Notepad File, with 
a note of how much excess they paid, and then if they become a repeat 
customer, deduct that amount from their next purchase.


And in the (also rare) cases where I underestimate the shipping, I simply 
eat the difference and not say anything.  If the buyer offers to reimburse 
the difference, and it is significant enough, then they are free to do so, 
but I am not going to pester them about it.

-- Otter