Tricky thing is... depending on how they apply to the buyer, would this then allow players to troll others by sending them unwanted CODs for ridiculous amounts, to sap out a player's resources? Because, I can guarantee you the bots would be all over that.

I voted yes, but really, whenever I spam "WTS" it is followed by "No COD". because it is not worth the hassle to me.

About 1/4 of the buyers will say "well omg I am not buying anything unless it is COD". And my response is always "Ok, no sale. Have a nice day". I don't need to sell anything that bad. I will not pay COD and will never charge it. They need to meet me in person if they want it.

I think there should be an option for who pays the COD before sending the item, that way you don't have to futz with the math. It would cut out the debate.

I pay CODs on things I buy, I never ask questions.
I always ask buyers on items I sell to pay for COD.

I think it's pretty simple. If the buyer doesn't wish to make the trip to pick up the goods, then he/she should shoulder the shipping cost.

The buyer pays shipping fees. It's the way real life works as well. There are costs to production that the seller is generally supposed to eat. In ESO, these usually take the form of opportunity costs. An opportunity cost is the measure of everything else that could have been had with the time and resources it takes to produce something. If you spend an hour questing to find a rare item, you could have spent that hour reading a book, or doing literally anything else - like crafting, or farming resources. Also, if you spend resources to create an item, you're not charging the worth of the resources in addition to the product, you're charging the worth of the end product - this is another cost absorbed by the seller.

This is why buyers eat the cost of shipping. Their involvement with the product should be "I want that, please get it to me." And if they want the convenience of having the item shipped to them, they should pay for that convenience. It shouldn't be yet another cost of the seller doing business.

Frankly, if a buyer requests that I deliver an item to them personally to avoid the cost, I do so without complaint every time. I consider my horse and I the "free shipping if you don't mind the wait" option, but I don't volunteer it if I'm knee-deep in whispers about my goods because then it's so much more convenient to everyone in my opinion to pay a small fee rather than wait for me to be finished getting goods to all interested parties.

If the buyer doesn't want to pay the C.O.D. fees then he needs to party up with and travel to the seller.

Its really easy to do and its how I do most of my trade. Travel to player is free, don't be lazy.

I voted no, only what I meant was I'd find a way to make it work for us both.

Example:
Selling something for 500g. Let's say (because I don't know the actual math off the top of my head) the CoD fee is 50g.
Instead of selling for 500g and charging CoD, I'd sell at 525g and call it even.

CHARGING FOR C.O.D. FEES.

How about do away with the shipping fees.

What am I talking about. Of course there are no shipping fees because everyone uses the fabulous guild stores.

My bad.

I'm kind of surprised that I'm in the minority here. If you are selling something for 300 gold, I expect to pay 300 gold. Don't try to weasel a little more out of me. If you want to account for the CoD fee, then just increase your price, and cut out the false advertising.

I don't sell things often in the game. And by that I mean in the 7 weeks or whatever that the game has been live, I only just sold off some excess inventory yesterday.

I had a couple of large transactions, on account that I was sitting on a TON of Rekuta's and a few Kuta's as well. I figure it's going to be quite some time before I can use them, so I may as well sell them to pay for my bank upgrade. I also had a couple of motif books.

I covered the COD on all sales done that way, because, well....why not? It isn't like it cost me anything to get the items, really, and what I made selling them to other players was a great deal more than I would have got vendoring them. Also, I had no idea what the cod fees would be.

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Blackwidow wrote: »

300 gold + ZOS BS tax.

When I say WTS for 300 and you say i'll buy it, I give the option to meet you or COD it, but the COD come out of your pocket.

Anyone who tries that with me will lose a potential customer. I'll just find a more honest seller instead.

Fair enough