Agree on the shipping, but as people on here have rightly highlighted, there is a time and costs that we collectors do not think about, someone has to pack the box and you have to buy the box, tape and the packing material. Then it has to be taken to the post office or you have to organise a courier, if you do the later then you have to weight and measure each box and then go online and book it etc. These things all take time and people need to be renumerated for their time.
I remember selling 2 K & C figures on ebay and the guy complained about the postage, so i broke it down for him and explained it was X amount postage, was a new box which cost Y and there was ebay fees on the postage which were Z and there was no profit in the post. He was still not happy so i just told him to cancel it and i would not give poor feedback as he had just changed his mind and reminded him he also sells on ebay and for two similar K & C figures in the same size boxes he charged 20% more than i did. He cancelled and called me a female lady part in an ebay message, which they picked up and banned him for a month.
Do not know about the US, but we can shop around here, for larger items there is a website called Shipley [i have no connection] and you can put on what you want moving, where from and where too and get quotes. Mainly larger items.
Cannot comment on the exact amount of yours as do not know weight and or box dimensions, but you live in the most capitalist market driven country in the world, you must be able to shop around for quotes. If you get it cheaper then its a winner, if they all quote the roughly the same price then that is the market price. Good luck.
On the subsidising goods from China, agree, but you could say they are subsiding people in their own countries to get cheaper goods, so people can just buy more and more stuiff, as that what makes a lot of people happy more and more tat.
