Slimy business at Circuit City

Hello,

I am very frustrated with Circuit City, doing business at

eBay as "trading circuit", or more fully:

www.tradingcircuit.com

stores.ebay.com/trading-circuit

circuitcity.com/eztradein

I "won" a small item in an eBay auction with no shipping

charge listed. The item isn't at all breakable or large.

In the check-out process the shipping didn't appear until

the last possible moment. Turned out my only shipping option

was FedEx and the shipping charge was almost twice what the

item cost. US mail wouldn't have been more than a couple

dollars. At that point I aborted the check-out and sent them

an eBay "request for a "total amount" including (US mail)

postage. Instead, I got an automated email telling me to go

through the check-out process.

I emailed them a couple more times, asking for them to mail,

not FedEx it, and got the same automated reply. These

replies were to my email address, not through the ebay

message system -- this company is just using eBay as a front

for their "we'll do business any way we please" system.

I then wrote that if I didn't get a "total amount" including

US postage, I wouldn't continue with the purchase. That got

a reply from a human saying, "...we do not cancel auctions"

-- their way of saying, "Too bad pal; you bought it, we can

charge whatever we want to send it to you."

This, in my opinion, is slimy dealing. Beware of Circuit

City.

Michael