{"id":673,"date":"2008-04-15T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2008-04-15T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:05:19","slug":"mixing-up-billing-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/mixing-up-billing-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Up Billing Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many times when we buy items we tend to look at just the immediate price tag of a product which lures us to spend money as we think it is such a great deal.  Today I took a casual gander on Ebay as there is this electric toothbrush I was potentially interested in and how I thought this would give me an idea on a price comparison if I was to buy it from a store. <\/p>\n<p>When I first did a search I found a listing for the item for about $99 with a $25 shipping rate which didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem too bad considering the item was about $180 normally at retail stores. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/scareebay1.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I then saw another listing that indicated it was $81.50 and thought that was even better.  However, I then looked at the shipping rate and was stunned.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/scareebay2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the seller was charging a shipping fee of $75.73.  Granted the shipping service is different, but that is still a substantial amount.  So while it looked better at first, in the end it would be way more.<\/p>\n<p>I knew a person once who said he simply sold these dishes on Ebay at a loss and instead just hiked up the shipping fee which made him a lot of profit in the end.  As he mentioned, for some reason people simply just focused on the price of the item itself.<\/p>\n<p>Just like all those hidden charges on specific services, you really have to be aware of what you are really paying in the end.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times when we buy items we tend to look at just the immediate price tag of a product which lures us to spend money as we think it is such a great deal. Today I took a casual gander on Ebay as there is this electric toothbrush I was potentially interested in and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5953,810,811,5952,808,809],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-business","tag-consumer-awareness","tag-ebay","tag-making-money","tag-shipping-fees","tag-smart-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/above-vancouver-eye-of-wind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-aR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}