I have the coveted rusty steel membership.. The postman delivers the by row boat in exchange for fish. 🤥

They ship to your door??? Have to go pick mine up!

All kidding aside, you will find that C-bid's shipping charges are in line with other purveyors. High shipping charges would deter potential buyers.

AND, from the website:

How do I know if I won?

We will send you an E-mail Confirmation of your winning bid, the item description, and quantity. Also, you will receive an End of Day Order Summary at midnight detailing the total charges to your credit card. This is done to factor in shipping savings for you in cases where you may have won multiple items on any given day (more on Shipping Savings Program)

If I win more than 1 item, can you send them together so I can save on shipping charges?

In most cases, yes. For your convenience, an "Order Summary" invoice containing your entire order activity will be automatically emailed to you either daily or weekly (depending the option you selected), and will include information on all the bids you may have won during that period. This summary will help you save on shipping charges by combining items won during the period and will reflect the charges applied to your credit card (more on Shipping Savings Program)

What are my shipping options?

Standard shipping is UPS-Ground or USPS priority. Insurance fees may be added for products valued over $50, and signature fees may be added for items valued over $100. Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and FPO/APO charges may be higher. All orders will ship within 72 hours of closing and you can expect arrival within 2 to 8 business days after shipping, depending on your location.

They have people who are smarter than you figure out the most you'll pay and then they charge that.

They throw darts.

So it's like forecasting the weather then?

Pretty much

I think they add a hidden surcharge for overbidders.

All of a sudden my orders started shipping a combination of UPS and USPS. Makes it a day longer. Anyone know why it may have changed?

Kevin Costner is having trouble keeping up on horseback. They'll make it there though.

My last order did the same thing. It was just a lone fiver so at first it thought maybe that was why but when I mentioned it to my wife she said that they've all come in the mail lately.

So UPS stops a block away from my house drops off my package at the post office, it sits there overnight and I get it about 2pm the next day. 😣

I got my last order on a Saturday, while UPS usually gets here on Monday or Tuesday. UPS takes Saturday off.

[quote=illinichaser]I don't pay for shipping. I have platinum. . .


Ed Zachery!

Your net worth divided by your weight! [sarcasm]

Hmm... zero is indivisible

My last order went UPS to USPS also. My local USPS often leaves packages at the street under my mailbox. So I doubt I will be ordering from Cbid again.

Or, instead of talking about it here, you could contact Customer Service to see what your options are. But then you all know to do that, since you tell everyone who comes here whining about something to do that.

But its your choice. 🇨🇮

Can also sign up for a ups account and "upgrade" out of smartpost for about $3.

Or call and see if they can ship ground instead of smartpost and weigh the cost difference

Makes perfect sense to me. Plus, it took 11 days to get a response here. Had he/she/it called customer service I'm sure an answer would have been had in less than 11 minutes. After all, isn't that why the customer service number is part of the master style sheet, so no matter what page one is viewing they have the number at their finger tips.

For what it's worth, customer service here is outstanding. Last night I called about a dumb bid I made and spoke to Shana, the same person who posts here ShanaC@CigarBid. It makes so much more sense to do that than to make an ass of oneself posting customer service issues here in the forums.

The forums are for making an ass of oneself for all other reasons.

La Princessa, in addition to da "ban hammah" and the "thread snuffer", is now wielding her latest device, the "post zapper", with bad intent.........

poof!...........................your post is evaporated.....

ZRX giggles when this happens while lighting PAMs with crisp $100 bills