Good point.
I live in the country on acreage and have a gate and dogs and still make sure someone is around to retrieve the package immediately even when I'm buying 500-1000 dollar guitars.
"Our store only charges a 15 percent receipt-inspection fee for receiving YOUR reverb order with the care and attention it deserves!"
Always assume malicious intent. It’s the rule not the exception. You will get fucked if you don’t protect yourself!
Pretty much, but I feel like some compromises could be found into a workable solution/program given existing fees and idiotic shipping costs through these platforms. I shipped a guitar to a family member across the country a couple weeks ago and it was $37 with insurance and signature, so why is it like $100+ on reverb?"Our store only charges a 15 percent receipt-inspection fee for receiving YOUR reverb order with the care and attention it deserves!"
What you think Reverb doesn’t want to make money???Pretty much, but I feel like some compromises could be found into a workable solution/program given existing fees and idiotic shipping costs through these platforms. I shipped a guitar to a family member across the country a couple weeks ago and it was $37 with insurance and signature, so why is it like $100+ on reverb?
My guess is that they're getting a substantial cut of the shipping costs to use their "discounted and only way the seller gets protection" labels. They should roll that over into a dealer program instead of using it to float losses that could be avoided almost entirely. Music stores don't make most of their money on sales, they make it on services. Between that and it being shipped there, I could see most dealers being okay with charging something like a $15 fee for a chance the person might also pay $60-100 to have it set up or more on strings, case, lessons, etc... when they come to pick it up.
It seems arbitrary. $37 is very very low IME. Usually whether I was buying or selling the shipping a guitar was 75 to 150 bucks depending on where I brought it too and that's oustde Reverb-Ebay.
Very true. Some people cannot be at home to receive the instrument plus most people who have guitars don't really know anything about set up and restringing. It's a toy-hobby for most or it's for kids, same thing. Dust collectors.