Ripped off

I don't understand the premise that skimping on packaging puts more money into the sellers pocket! Doesn't every seller put it in the box, packaging or not, then weigh the box and then get a quote? How else can you come up with a shipping total to give the buyer? And then you think by taking out a nominal amount of the weight by reducing the packaging saves you how much in a box the size of the one pictured! Seems like a lot of extra work to save maybe at most $1.00 on $15, which seems to be the shipping amount! Doesn't seem likely....

I also can't understand the amount of friction between two grown men instead of just working together to get this resolved! Just agree to work together...68 Dodge gets his refund and ply30 gets his insurance and covers the $15 to ship, in good faith the the buyer!! Why is this not happening?? The package just arrived yesterday?? C'mon, please try to work this out!!