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drop everything you're doing and RUSH to ship their stuff! Nobody's patient anymore.

Sellers don't hesitate or dilly-dally on accepting payment from the buyers, though, do they????

I've never had a seller tell me "that's okay, let me ship you the goods and just send the payment whenever you have a chance to do so".

I've never had a seller tell me "that's okay, let me ship you the goods and just send the payment whenever you have a chance to do so".

The only one I know of is Roy Masters at FHU.com

Ya gotta be into what he what he believes.

I don't think it would go over big here, but he's shown me a few things.

FMCDH

About half of my buyers use Paypal, and half send checks. I don't wait for checks to clear before I ship. It's amazing, I haven't taken a bad check in over 12 years! Fortunately, most ebay customers aren't hard nosed about it all. Unless there is a significant delay, they wait without badgering me with emails.

Also, my auctions mention SHIPPING & HANDLING. And, I ship by media mail. When postage doesn't add up to all the shipping money they sent, some complain. Here is the email I send those customers:

You have enquired why we did not ship your merchandise by priority mail. Shipping fees on your merchandise is $4 for your first item and $1 for each additional item. In our catalogs, fliers, and in our ebay auctions, this is always referred to as "shipping AND HANDLING".

Please let us explain the "AND HANDLING" part.

IF YOU BOUGHT YOUR MERCHANDISE ON EBAY, we paid eBay 55 cents to list that item for sale. When you bought it, we also paid ebay 5% of your total purchase price.

IF YOU PAID BY PAYPAL, we paid Paypal 2.2% of your TOTAL amount, + 30 cents.

IF YOU SENT US A CREDIT CARD NUMBER, our carrier took 4.2% of your TOTAL amount.

IF YOU USED OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER, we paid the long distance charges. We also paid 60 cents a minute to the answering service for each minute you were on the line.

THE CARDBOARD BOX OR BUBBLE BAG we shipped your item in costs somewhere between 36-78 cents.

ANY FUNDS LEFT OVER go to pay our employees who pack your item, carry it to the post office, and stand in line to ship your item.

In short, your item was shipped by MEDIA MAIL so that there would at least be partial funding of the "AND HANDLING" part of "shipping AND HANDLING". If we had to ship your item by priority mail, there would be no funds left to cover the "AND HANDLING", and we would not be in business.

Thanks for your inquiry!

I've never had a seller tell me "that's okay, let me ship you the goods and just send the payment whenever you have a chance to do so"

I have. I did send the payment right away though.