"I believe it is my responsibility to charge you what the carrier charges me to ship. I believe repeat customers get free shipping. They deserve it. I believe ad fees, bubble wrap, peanuts, envelopes are a cost of doing business. If the stuff you are selling doesn't provide a great enough profit to cover those items you should probably be doing something else."

If you are doing this professionally, as a business venture, I think this is the correct way to 'build' a business.

If, however, you are a hobbiest unloading some duplicate chips, or a one time seller 'cleaning out your deceased fathers desk', I have no problem with you charging for packaging, and maybe even a little something for your time.

"I believe it is my responsibility to Email each buyer when their payment arrives and tell them when their purchase has been shipped."

I won't say you're 'wrong' here and I'm sure your intentions are good. But there are some 'kooks', like me, who want as little as possible in their email box. I get an ebay notification of an item won, I get an invoice for my purchase, if using paypal I get a receipt for a payment made. Enough, already! :-) IMHO anything more is excess.

And under NO circumstance should you send a notice of payment recieved, or item sent, without identifying the item being processed!!!

"I believe it is my responsibility to not encourage buyers to get on "The Ebay Bus" or any similiar conveyance. Crap like this will irritate more people than it will please."

Amen.