{"id":12659,"date":"2017-12-30T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2017-12-30T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T18:44:50","slug":"2017-12-29-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12659","title":{"rendered":"2017-12-29 Shipping Costs Kill Good Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios<\/p>\n<p>My comment about a radio for AU$5400 on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Dreaming, or more like wishing and hoping for a sucker to buy it.&nbsp; But at least he had enough sense to add &#8216;or best offer&#8217;.&nbsp; If someone offers a hundred, maybe he&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a few successes with making offers.&nbsp; The main reason I offer is not that I&#8217;ll expect to be successful, but to let the seller know what a buyer thinks the item is going to sell for.&nbsp; Some sellers offer items for a reasonable price, but what kills the sale is the shipping cost.&nbsp; I usually tell the seller I see other similar items shipping for much less.&nbsp; If the seller won&#8217;t reduce the shipping, the item will probably not sell.<\/p>\n<p>Right now there&#8217;s an AM\/FM\/SW multiband radio selling for less than a dollar US, but it goes unsold because of the $45 shipping from Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios My comment about a radio for AU$5400 on eBay. Dreaming, or more like wishing and hoping for a sucker to buy it.&nbsp; But at least he had enough sense to add &#8216;or best offer&#8217;.&nbsp; If someone offers a hundred, maybe he&#8217;ll take it. I&#8217;ve had a few successes with<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12659\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,336,20,192,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-information","category-ebayk","category-other-off-topic","category-radio-television-entertainment","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12661,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}