Ebay sellers range to a great degree. Some sellers are running businesses and need to cover all their costs, including packaging materials, postage, and the time and effort to get the item mailed. If you were paying someone else to do this, I can see how it could easily cost $2.75. But the issue is, once you bid you have agreed to pay the $2.75. No IF's, AND's, or BUT's. I have emailed eBay sellers that had what I thought was high shipping charges and asked that if I won the auction could I send a prepaid self-addressed bubble mailer along with my payment instead of paying the shipping charge. The answer is almost always yes. Some eBay sellers want to send everything by Priority Mail. I have asked if they would ship and charge for first class mail. Again, the answer is almost always yes. But you have to ask before you bid. Chippers are a great bunch of people and very accomodating to most requests. But, if you want something different than what is being offered, you have to ask before you bid.

As far as condition is concerned ... the same principle applies. If you are not sure of what you getting, in this case the condition of the chip, ask before you bid. If a chip is described as excellent and looks excellent in the scan then you should expect it to be in excellent condition. If you determined that it was in poor condition when you got it, and not excellent, that would be a reasonable situation in which to return the chip. "Nice" condition is a more relative term. A chip could be in nice condition (which could mean better than average) and still be worn if most of the other chips in this issue are in worse condition. It is always better to ask first if you are not sure. In my case you only saw a picture of the chip. No condition was assigned. If you were unsure of the condition or if you wanted a chip to be of a certain condition or better, you just had to ask.