Shorty82 wrote: Disney will even send you personalized maps of the parks for free from the website, I have some around here somewhere I got just before my trip back in July.
Yeah, I got these maps, they are beautiful, actually they would look great framed. You can get them every 6 months. I have two sets of them. They're very nice. I think eBay should crack down on these losers who are selling things that people can get for free from the Park, as well as the fastpasses, entry tickets and GAC passes. It is illegal to sell some of these things on eBay and I know Disney has a team trying to stop these sales, but there are just so many of them.
I once won a viewmaster set in a canister from a seller for 5.00. I had already gotten another different viewmaster in a canister, (I collect old viewmasters and reels), so I knew how big the item was. The seller had put a 50.00 shipping fee

on the item, which I really thought was an error. I emailed them and asked what the shipping really was and they said 50.00! I went to the Post Office and found out that no matter how big or heavy a pkg is, there is a flat rate of something like 20.00 for an item like that. I wrote them back and told them I had checked with the P.O. and gave them the info that the postmaster had given me. I played it dumb and said that whoever at their P.O. had told them the shipping was that much, was incorrect and that I was not going to pay 50.00 for shipping. They allowed me to cancel, because they knew if they tried to make me pay that much I would report them to eBay and they did not want that. These jags try all the time to make up the difference in a shipping cost what they don't make on the bids. They could have gotten in huge trouble for inflating shipping costs on eBay. That is big no-no there. You can be kicked off from selling if you overcharge on shipping costs. They knew I knew what was up. They backed down. Now I check shipping costs carefully and if it is an outrageous amount, I write and ask why it is so much. Usually I don't get an answer or I get some BS about it. I don't bid if they won't back down. And I will report outrageously high shipping costs. I don't sell yet, but I buy a lot of Disney pins through eBay. I have found some of the best hard to find and rare pins there and I now limit my sellers to people I know and have become friends with. We are all pin collectors and I know I can trust them for a fair deal. eBay can be fun, you just have to be careful...
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