One of the least fun things I have to do at work is eBay, mostly because of all the shitty fucking whiners that buy on there. Example: We charge what items actually cost for us to ship, which causes people to complain that they have to pay a whole 3 dollars for their precious coin to be shipped in a mailer.
So today, this woman who bought 2 coins actually had the gall to say we have extremely high shipping charges. 3 dollars is a lot you know. So I wrote her back that next time, I'll send her her coins in an unpadded business envelope if she wants (I didn't write it rudely though because negative feedback will make my dad cry). Seriously though, that is fucking bullshit that she thinks that it's expensive, because it's actually less than it costs us to ship--my dad pays me a fucking salary to deal with eBay, so there's handling, a mailer costs 50 cents or more, delivery confirmation costs 70 cents, and I know from tons of experience that the regular shipping for a first class mailer is 2.55 unless its heavy. So that comes out over 4 dollars. And to top off that line of thinking, we got an email from eBay last week about ways to improve our sales--they called and told my dad we should offer free shipping. That is their solution. They said he'd be a top rated seller if he'd just take a huge loss on all the shipping for everything. He basically told them that made no sense in our business model, whereupon the person on the phone got quite rude and then hung up on him. Just to show how fucked up eBay really is, we got 12 ratings out 1000 that our shipping charges were less than 5 stars, so we can't be a top rated seller. QQQQQ lol no.
And that ends my rant about how much I want to punch eBay straight in the face.