Beware of bad ebay seller

[ohohyodafarted]

I forgot to mention that I offered to make up the difference of what I had paid for shipping and what the actual UPS on line calculator said the cost would be, about $27 more. He declined to accept my offer. Here pasted below is the actual note I sent to him after he tried to extort unreasonable inflated shipping charges from me.

Good evening Phil,
I weighed one of my CTC4 chassis. It is factory original and it weighs in on a very accurate digital scale at exactly 45 pounds. Allowing 5 pounds for packing, I went to the UPS web site and had UPS figure the shipping charges for Standard ground service from Clifton Heights, PA 19018 to my residential address at 53211 and the cost is 42.52. Furthermore, your auction clearly stated that the shipping was going to be $15.45. eBay auctions have provision for the automatic calculation of UPS shipping charges that the seller can integrate into the auction. Advertising one price for shipping and then charging something else after the sale is completed is a deceptive practice according to eBay rules. To be fair to you, I am willing to pay you the actual UPS cost difference between what I already paid and the $42.52 that the UPS calculator tells me ground service will cost; $42.52-$15.45=$27.07.

Now as for those of you who feel that the seller was in the right, I will remind you that if a shipping charge is stated in the auction, the terms are binding and must be honored. eBay has a very good UPS calculator built into the ebay system. All you have to do is enter your fixed charge for packaging and the weight of the item and the eBay system will automatically calculate the proper shipping charges for each buyer based on his zip code. If the seller wanted to add shipping charges then he is supposed to us the Pickup Only option, and then advertise for the potential bidder to inquire as to what the charges are prior to bidding if the item is to be shipped.

Advertising a shipping price is a binding term of the auction and deviation from what is advertised as the shipping price is a deceptive practice according to the people that I spoke to at eBay.

On top of that $295 for a ctc4 Chassis is good money and I offered the seller to pay for "actual" ups charges, but paying in excess of actual shipping cost is nothing short of extortion. I was under no obligation to pay anything but what was advertised according to eBay rules.

So to those of you who think that I was taking advantage of the seller I ask you, When was the last time you paid more than the advertised price for something??????

[DavidGoncalv]

The INTERNET has spoken! You are BOTH in the wrong!

[tubesrule]

One thing to keep in mind when dealing with UPS/FedEx is a thing called Dimensional Weight. Dimensional Weight is a factor they add on to the actual weight based on the size of the box and how much room it's going to take up in their plane/truck. Using 50# the UPS shipping calculator does come out to around $40 if you don't specify a box size. I don't know the size of a CTC4 chassis, but putting in 24" X 24" X 20" pushes the Dimensional Weight to 70# and the cost to over $50. Assuming you double box it and the package gets bigger, $60+ dollars is not far fetched.

This really becomes a problem when you need to ship something that is very large but very light. I just estimated sending an empty box that is a 24" cube weighing 1# to California and the Dimensional Weight came out to 84# with a shipping cost of $87.58!

Just remember actual weight means little when shipping a large item.