Ozzy > writes:

> "Kent" > wrote in
> :
>
> > DID YOU NOTICE THE SHIPPING COSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > US $24.88
> >
> > Also, a 97.6% happy buyer ratio is very low for EBAY;
> > Avoid, Avoid, Avoid
>
> It's not so very low when you have over 500 transactions, but I agree that
> nearly $25 doesn't strike me as what parcel post would cost, not everywhere
> in the lower 48. (According to <http://www.usps.com/rates/parcel-post-
> rates.htm> it goes by distance & weight.)
>
> But he's really stretching it in the description, for example when he says
> the item is "BRAND NEW. Never used." Can you imagine anyone paying for used
> popcorn? :-))

Sheng popcorn improves with age, unlike shu popcorn. But since the
original poster didn't say which kind it was, I suppose I wouldn't
recommend this.

/Lew
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