the best way to combat that is not bid, email the user as you did.

It happened over at yahoo auctions years ago,
I never bid at the yahoo auctions, but I was shocked to look at some products that where selling cheap, but the shipping more then made up for it..

I have a feeling that we are now seeing people who sold on yahoo, coming over to eBay now.

The buyers HOPE that you bid on the item Before you see the shipping cost.
If this is on an increase, eBay will be gone.

"Cheryl" wrote in message ...
I noticed the same thing. There were quite a few fabrics I was going to bid on last night, but the shipping was outrageous. One wanted around $10 to ship a yard of fabric, when just last week I shipped a yard and a half for less than $3 and that including buying the stupid envelope at the post office.

Cheryl

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"lisa skeen" wrote in message ink.net...
Surfing around ebay this afternoon I found a FQ I liked, but the woman wants
$2 to stick it in an envelope and mail it. I emailed her and said she could
put it in an envelope and mail it for 39 cents, could she be more reasonable
on the shipping price. She said her prices were lower than anyone elses,
and she wasn't going to lower the shipping price.

It seems to me in the last six months or so, there have been more and more
people on ebay price gouging in the shipping department. Week before last I
calculated the shipping on a 5-ounce book via media mail, $1.52. The guy
wanted over $5 for shipping!

I can understand adding a bit in the shipping department if you have to do a
lot of packing, like I have to do for my pottery, but shoving a FQ into an
envelope, or a book even, that's a no-cost proposition other than the
postage. It's getting to the point where people want more for shipping than
you pay for the item. sigh I hate price gougers.

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L. P. Skeen, Summerfield NC
Organized people are just too dang lazy to look for things.