Parts Prices, WTF?!

you would be surprised.. its the reason i rarely ship stuff i have for sale. boxed up quite a few things over the years only to have the buyer back out after they got the shipping price.. screw that crap.. local pick up now.
Joe, these guys already agreed if the shipping was in the ball park. I get their name, address and they get my pay pal. I box it up real good for a quote. Then they say it’s too much. The quote is pretty dam close to what I estimated. Plus I have to insure anything over $100.00 Canadian. To save my *** if it gets lost, stolen or damaged in shipping. I don’t want to be out the part or the money and neither does the buyer. Now most buyers don’t pay the pay pal fee even though I give them the choice to pay it on their end or send me a little extra. I also ask to send it in usd so I don’t have to pay a 8% conversion fee. So for every hundred dollars I get $88.00 when I eat the fee and the currency conversion as most still send it in Canadian dollars even though they can make the simple change on their screen. I have refunded a few payments so the buyer can change it to usd. But now p/p charges me a $2.99 per hundred fee to do that. Rant over. Kim