shipping costs

[artist3873]

I'm looking at a piece of jewelry right now and the shipping cost is outrageous. It's light and small and the seller is charging 39$ . Seems excessive. It's not even real silver. How can they do this? frustrated.

[ace_4420]

You could contact seller, point out shipping cost and ask if they can send using a more reasonable priced shipping method.  If seller won't change to a more reasonable cost then browse to find a seller who will. I have found many USA sellers who do not use this GSP. I have 200.00 worth of vintage jewelry that send via the old way. I pay duty to my post office in town. Good luck! Ace

[femmefan1946]

The seller can charge anything he likes for shipping or for his product.

The buyer can laugh and laugh and move on to another product that is more reasonable priced.

[femmefan1946]

I pay duty to my post office in town.

Ace- do you mean you pay duty on the jewelry you import at the PO counter? Because the seller/exporter does not and with a very few exceptions cannot pay duty for his buyers/ importers.

The exceptions include PitneyBowes and other large exporters like LL Bean etc. I don't want to get into why they can collect duty for the Canadian government because it drives some rageaholics batty.