Shipping cost transparency | Questions and answers among users

ramorall · 2024-12-05T10:43:00.395000Z

Very often on eBay you come across identical items sold by different sellers, and rightly so, at different prices too. And so far, nothing strange: those are the rules everyone accepts of the "free market". What’s not right, though, is the "shipping costs" part. It often happens that the same item, sold by different sellers, is sent by the same carrier, let’s say Poste Italiane, for example. Well, even if it’s shipped from Italian cities on the mainland, maybe in the same region, the shipping charges requested, let’s say still by Poste Italiane, are different for the same item, therefore with the same size and weight. This then raises the suspicion, given the sometimes substantial differences, that someone is skimming profits off the shipping costs. So I propose that everyone who charges "shipping costs" attach to the buyer a photocopy of the carrier’s receipt, from which the shipping details and costs can be seen. I can only make an exception for the seller’s address. Well, if this is not implemented, then for me eBay becomes complicit in these possible little tricks by some sellers.

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