Global Shipping Program.....again

[samoaman]

Why is there such a wide discrepancy in the cost of shipping by GSP for a similar item? Specifically, I am looking at buying a used computer (Dell To 7610) from the US. According to the search results, seller 1 charges $US1,232.61 postage, BUT his item description page says $US292.70! Seller 2, on the other hand only charges $US30.79 for a similar computer, which I find hard to believe!!

Where is the logic in all this?

[lyndal1838]

I suspect the UPS tracking number is for internal tracking of the package within the USA.

Most sellers use USPS but there is nothing to stop them using other carriers.

Keep an eye out for the tracking changing to FedEx once it has been processed at Erlanger KY.

I have no idea why I am an Honoured Contributor.....no-one told me.  I am treated exactly the same as all the other mushrooms here on the boards.

[imastawka]

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[lyndal1838]

[countessalmirena]

Spoiler

❝Monasterium sine libris, est sicut civitas sine opibus, castrum sine numeris, coquina sine suppellectili, mensa sine cibis, hortus sine herbis, pratum sine floribus, arbor sine foliis.❞

(I subscribe to this in the main - particularly the pointlessness of a library without books and the need for a kitchen to have appliances and utensils. I would add ❝ organum sine musicae, cerebrum sine aequitati❞.)

 

[davewil1964]

I don't agree about the garden. Green concrete is my preference.

And a table without food means somewhere to put books.

[digital*ghost]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I have no idea why I am an Honoured Contributor.....no-one told me.  I am treated exactly the same as all the other mushrooms here on the boards.

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No you're not. 

Your user name is bold. BOLD! It's special treatment if ever I saw it! 

So unfair. 

(PS I'm pretty sure it's cos you have received 10k+ kudos ). 

[*tippy*toes*]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I have no idea why I am an Honoured Contributor.....no-one told me.  I am treated exactly the same as all the other mushrooms here on the boards.

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No you're not. 

Your user name is bold. BOLD! It's special treatment if ever I saw it! 

So unfair. 

(PS I'm pretty sure it's cos you have received 10k+ kudos ). 

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She might be BOLD, but has no special privileges. She is exactly the same as us, except her name is BOLD. I'm sure there are plenty of others with lots of Kudos. The title seems pointless, when she's the only one that has it and it has no special powers.

Edit: Lyndal has 11,000+ kudos. Stawks has over 42,000, so it's not that!

[digital*ghost]

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

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She might be BOLD, but has no special privileges. She is exactly the same as us, except her name is BOLD. I'm sure there are plenty of others with lots of Kudos. The title seems pointless, when she's the only one that has it and it has no special powers.

Edit: Lyndal has 11,000+ kudos. Stawks has over 42,000, so it's not that!

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That was the joke, lol. 

Maybe it's how many answers were marked as solutions or something. The only other difference I can see between lyndal and stawks is that lyndal posts in the answer centre. 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@4channel wrote:

As bad as it is marwi_3023, it may help me when I decide to start selling again. Hmmmm    Local buyers will be forced to buy of me as they won't want to have to pay those hefty prices for Pitney Bowes' Global Shipping scam and be ripped off.  Just like the earthquake in New Zealand, a horrific and tragic event, it helped stimulate the building industry. So good things can be a side-benefit from horrid things.

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now who would have thought of that?  I wonder . . . . . . 

[samoaman]

<p>I will lyndal. The tracking shows this morning that the parcel has received a departure scan. No mention of FedEx though!</p>