A little rant about ebay

• Jan 5, 2009

• #1

Brad

Bench Warmer

I am selling my books last semester since I get more there than from the bookstore. Yet, I went to set shipping at $7 so that it is covered. The max for a book is apparently only $4, even if it is set for USPS Priority which starts at $4.80! I am still sending priority since I know I want my book fast for class, but still stupid. Atleast my subtitle was free :roll: For the $69 book I sold, I have $66.70 in the paypal account. So, they took out $2.30, plus I lost $3.40 on shipping, and like $7 on FVF fees. So my $69 is really $56. I feel like I got raped, but I would have gotten it a lot worse at the bookstore.

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #2

Zeeck

Sneaky

I was unaware such limits on shipping existed. Weak.

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #3

Brad

Bench Warmer

Apparently they do on books, since I am watching a card that is $5 shipping. I was not happy about it.

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #4

M

Migraine

Bench Warmer

Kill them

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #5

Bounty13

Bench Warmer

At least you were able to sell your books. I bet half the books during my college years were not accepted by any book stores because of a new edition, and they sold for peanuts on eBay. Be happy you were at least able to recover something from your books. College text books are the biggest scam a University can run.

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #6

pgwtamu

Bench Warmer

you can send the book "media mail" and it won't hardly cost you anything....

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #7

Brad

Bench Warmer

Bounty13 said:

At least you were able to sell your books. I bet half the books during my college years were not accepted by any book stores because of a new edition, and they sold for peanuts on eBay. Be happy you were at least able to recover something from your books. College text books are the biggest scam a University can run.

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Agreed. My Linear Algebra book is a 2002 and still used :shock: but I already have some I can't dump.

pgwtamu said:

you can send the book "media mail" and it won't hardly cost you anything....

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I will look into this then. Might help some.

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #8

scrappy

Bench Warmer

yeah media mail is like parcel post for books, they know they are heavy but it's a cheaper way to send them

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #9

J

jaymix79

Bench Warmer

Brad - did you sell your books on ebay or half.com? half.com is ebay and that is where you sell your books at if you have not before... Check it out. You do not get your money right away... they do a first and middle of the month deposit into a checking account.... Also they charge the buyer the shipping so you dont have to worry about calculating fee's...... Oh yea ship books media mail or whatever it is called!

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #10

Brad

Bench Warmer

I'll look into half.com next time. I have just used ebay and sold the 3 big textbooks I had in about 24 hours, so not too bad.

 

• Jan 5, 2009

• #11

sliqwill

Prospect

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they also have set shipping rates on DVDs...its stupid that they have limits on some things but not others