Fedex, UPS, eBay Shipping Who need em…

What am I talking about you ask eh? :) Well I'm talking online purchasing, specifically eBay and their lack of shipping price control. It's absolutely sick that you have pay $60 for shipping of a memory card from China or Hong Kong. I'm sure everyone one of you have gone through this at least once in your life... you order some tiny product on the web, it gets shipped to you for twice the cost to purchase it and then UPS slaps a 29.99 price tag for breakage fee, plus taxes on top and you're paying 3x the amount you purchased the item for.

So I was thinking would it be great to try to get rid of this process? Well I think for certain purchases it's possible to do. For example: Lets say you buy a brand new ipod for $100 on the web. It's NIB (New In Box) and it's located in Australia. Now lets say someone else buys the same product but it's in Canada and they're located in Australia. Instead of shipping the items cross continents you ship the same item but locally between the two people. When you find people like this you connect them together, so you have two buyers and two sellers involved in each transaction

You're basically taking purchases which would normally get shipped across the world and try to find the same item locally that's being sold by someone else. You still pay the same person but the item comes from someone else. Now you save on all those shipping and import charges. I think there is potential in this type of idea if someone can figure out how to do it. There obviously would be problems with DOA products but again if we can over come those we could save tons of money and the environment (fuel).

Thought I would throw this out there.