paying a sellers paypal fees

Consider this before you go off on someone asking you to pay the fee...

Paypal charges a fee on the ENTIRE transaction amount, and that includes shipping. Now figure this out..

I sold a pair of 69 Cuda grilles to a guy in Sweden for $900.00. He wanted Overnight Express shipping to limit the amount of handling the package would receive, at a cost of over $300.00. Paypal fee is based on $1200.00!!

Now, everybody squacks about the high cost of shipping...gee I wonder why?? If a seller quotes an ACTUAL shipping price for an item, then the buyer pays by Paypal, guess what?? The seller now loses $$$ just by virtue of having to pay what Paypal took as their fee on the shipping amount out of pocket just to ship an item.

See the above example?? Guess how much the Paypal fee was?? Am I (the seller) supposed to eat over $130.00 in fees, including almost $40.00 on the shipping alone??? I think NOT!!! Geof
Ouch......but in all likely hood many of us will never be put in your situation....