From: bv@wjv.com   
      
   In article <12s9d5oekomdcb7@news.supernews.com>, Mike  wrote:   
   >"Rick"  wrote in message news:45C47B2A.FA6F0D60@rcn.com...   
   >>> With shipping costs listed at $100.00 you should be able to send   
   >>> that anywhere in the world - even by air?  Could you have meant   
   >>> $10.   After all $100 shipping for soemthing that is currently   
   >>> at $19.99 sounds a bit like overkill .   
   >>   
   >> What does the cost of shipping have to do with the price of the item?   
   >   
   >In this case, everything.   It's a common eBay scam.   
   >   
   >> Have you checked the costs to ship *anything* lately? (At Christmas it   
   >> cost me over $9.00 to ship a two and a half pound package via USPS.)   
   >> Especially something as large - and heavy - as a Model 4 if packed   
   >> properly?   
   >   
   >There's no way in hell it will cost $100 to ship a model 4 *anywhere* in the   
   >CONUS via UPS ground.   Maybe $50 MAX - if you go to a UPS store and use   
   >their boxes and packing materials.  Actual shipping would be about $30.   To   
   >get to $100, you have to be shipping 129 lbs to zone 8 - zone 8 is the   
   >furthest possible destination zip code from the source zip code.   
   >   
   >This is a scam.   
   >   
   >Mike   
      
   Knowing Ira has been posting here for eons I suspect it may   
   be a typo not a scam.   
      
   Bill   
      
      
      
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