And on this note of shipping, having sold a few recently, a domestic flat rate box with insurance via click& ship with a USPS account it about $15 (depending on the insurance amount), not $4 like all of us like to think- it’s not 1992 anymore.
Shipping watches internationally-uninsurable through USPS -to members here has cost me as much as $50- I don’t set the fees and this is not a contest- just stating the facts as I have discovered at my local PO.
Shipping costs what it costs- we have no control and the fees and rules seem to change weekly (particularly right now). Don’t ask for next day even with Fed-ex in our current climate-it won’t happen, but they’ll still offer it to you and take your money.
I offer free shipping domestically when I sell and factor that into my asking price. Int’l is whatever they feel like charging on a given day so I can’t rightly offer that for free as I don’t know what it will be (and on a $200 watch it could be a 1/4 of the value).
I get not quibbling over $10 on a watch that may be a good value. But I agree that the principle of someone trying to make up fees and expenses in an added S&H fee to lower the appearance of asking price is just tacky.
