Warning of using fedex shipping label and invoice fees!

[ekiwamoto]

I recently sold a saxophone on ebay and used the fedex shipping label on ebay to ship the item.  As I just started selling, my funds weren't available instantly so I clicked the option to be charged when my funds were available for the shipping label.  When my funds became available, I never got charged on paypal for the shipping label, but just today I checked my invoice fees and it had jumped from around $90 to $134.  I thought there must of been something wrong so I checked my invoice fees and saw that I was being charged $44 for my fedex shipping label.  In the details of the fee, it said my label was 51lbs and had a bunch of other charges, but my label was only 18lbs and the shipping label cost only around $24, probably less.  I called ebay and they told me it was a mistake on their part and credited me back money so the charge of the shipping label was back to $24.  But as I said the label was probably less so I should of gotten back more money. Ebay would have charged me the extra money if I never saw the mistake, so I wanted to warn my fellow sellers out there.  They ebay specialist told me that fedex shipping labels sometimes have problems because they are still working on it.  So when you use Fedex, make sure you check how much you get charged.

[vintagekingmotorsports]

I use Fedex all the time because I ship motorcycle frames, engines etc. I go directly to FedEx and pay at the counter then download the tracking

[dwp1621]

FedEx is allowed to basically **bleep** you on fees, and eBay allows it.  I just got my ebay invoice, and was furious to see that an item that I shipped with FedEx weighed (According to them) .25 POINT 25 more than what I had weighed it at (Like my weight was 3.75lbs. and they claim it was 4 lbs.)   They charged me $16.00 Extra for .25 lbs... POINT 25 .. $16.00!  Really!?  And eBay stands behind this??? Ridiculous 

[primaryinvestmentsllc1]

Absolute scam, insane and should not be legal. I sent a package to a location about an hour away from my house, just to get an idea of how **bleep** this is, I would have drove the **bleep** thing there and hand delivered it had I known this was the cost to ship.

When I shipped the package I put in 70 pounds 24x24x24 box, I believe the printer was actually a little over 60 lbs but I wanted to be safe and the shipping charge was 36 dollars....get read for it, the final charge that showed up on my bill $202.73, and increase of over 550%!!!!!

The tracking info via fedex says 70 lbs weight still however the ebay bill is showing the following:
Bill Wt: 119.0 LB Sign Svc Amt: $6.05 Freight Amt: $64.59 Fuel Amt: $12.61 Misc 1 Amt: $90.00 Misc 2 Amt: $37.50 Perf Price Disc: $-15.82 Resi Amt: $3.80

What in the H*ll is " Misc 1 Amt: $90.00 Misc 2 Amt: $37.50 "  so 130 dollars worth of fees for "MISC"?  really?  Not even an explanation for these random mysterious charges?

This is such a joke I dont even know where to begin.  Its one thing if the cost was off a little...I could see adding another 10-20 dollars, but really?  550%?  36 to 200+ dollars?  Straight robbery.