1. You might try to get the seller to agree to let a local bike shop you contract with and pay pick up and ship. 2. Yes, the seller may be wasting money with an expensive shipper, otherwise. 3. But ask experienced shippers what the real cost of packing is because my limited experience is that 4. Packing is way under-priced by most sellers, so much so that 5. An economically rational seller with better things or more productive things to do with time should be willing to kick back some of the purchase price to a buyer who picks up a bike, PREPAID, rather than incur the costs of packing and shipping a bike cross country for a listed $75.
But, mostly regard this as a cost seen by all competitors for the bike, depressing all bids.
Harry Travis Washington, DC USA
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, chris ioakimedes <chriseye@comcast.net>wrote:
> Hello,
> I know there has been some discussion lately about shipping costs. I was
> just quoted $140 by an Ebay seller to ship a Paramount fromIndiana to
> California. Isn't this about twice what it should cost?
> Thanks,
> Chris ioakimedes
> Fairfax, California