Originally Posted by
fyrstormer
Well, with the eBay Global Shipping program, you're paying for an eBay contractor to handle the customs paperwork for you, and then all the items destined for a specific country get put in a crate and loaded onto a cargo airplane all at once. That stuff costs money.
The problem is even the shipping costs for domestic US shipments organized through eBay are priced so stupidly as well. I bought a $75 engine and shipping through ebays global program was $16. When the box arrived, the USPS postage sticker said $7.90. I understand the box and packaging costs money, but $8.10? Not likely.