eBay frustration

Oklacarcollecto said
The seller has to ship if that is what showed up and is marked paid. His only other option is to get you to agree to cancel the auction or risk negative feedback. It isn't your fault he screwed up.

greymouser7 said
No he does not have to ship. Just as I posted earlier, he can refund the money, take the negative feedback, care less, & re list the item.

Apparently you missed the blue in my comment.

greymouser7 said
EBay's automatic shipping calculations are often crap. It's hard/impossible to change it when listing.

2 The seller gets gouged for shipping across the border.
( I shipped Steve a shoebox full of $30 painting masks-cost $50, they weigh nothing)

3 SOme sellers know that the shipping is crap and identify the problem in the add or don't, and some sellers haven't experienced the gouge yet.

It's the sellers that know but don't say anything plus the innocent/ignorant (NO OFFENSE) buyers that combine into a problem- a problem that eBay could care less about.

I see sellers put shipping disclaimers about shipping calculators being wrong on items going out of the country and to contact them for a price before bidding. Pretty simple solution....

A lot of seller's are too lazy to use USPS when shipping to Canada and choose to use UPS or FedEx instead. Both of them are always higher than USPS plus they tack on brokerage fees.