@12345jamesstamps wrote:
After 23 years...I would think when you the buyer pays you ship it out. Puerto Rico is a part of the USA.
A mistake twice...plus I think you still paid eBay fees on top bidder but I don't know...which might have covered shipping instead of the eBay top fee auction.
The feedbacks tell what happened like the way you mentioned.
We sellers will time to time make mistakes...including wrong shipping...
We have to consider it a learned lesson.
Refunding the bidder from an auction who has been watching your auctions for days when buyer might have gotten the items from another seller...but wasted time watching your auctions. You wasted the buyer's time plus making his payments and now he has to look again which might take days to find what he needs.
And you been on eBay 23 years....
Yip... Happens. I'd one not too long back that I said to myself, "Yo'... Self. Not making a thing on this order... Phhht (spitting coffee all over myself).
The other side the coin, people who flat rate shipping might make a buck or two here and there, probably not much "My bad" karma there? I flat rate at $6.50 and most everything is 5 ounces to 2-3 pounds. Win some loose some, balances out but its more consumer friendly than going, "Oh, $10 flat rate no matter where or what."
Sellers make mistakes indeed but not the customers fault. I remember one night listing when uBid was alive which was just a ghastly process... Anybody things eBay bad, well, they've no idea what bad is. So seller listed these Infinity Tower Speakers $9 start bid... I bid without a second thought yet his ending time was like 3 AM in the morning and I won them. That's like $400+ of speakers in the day and they came to my door. uBid has zero tolerance policies, you sell to cheap that's on you. You end at dead times, thats on you and that happened to me occasion forgetting to "tick" the "PM" versus the "AM."
