Re: Loading Fee ?

TyMeDwn1st wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2005 06:35:01 -0800, galt_57@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >At what point is a "prep and loading fee" really fee avoidance and how
> >could a seller be discouraged from doing this?
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7571200227
>
> It weighs 3000 pounds. I don't know much (translation: almost nothing) about
> moving big machinery things around, but $500 doesn't seem unreasonable to me
> at all.

3000 lbs ain't *** on a factory floor. The "prep" takes five minutes.
The "load" takes five minutes of forklift time. He didn't say "load and
secure" or "palletize."

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