Postage rip off

Tight_Old_Git

eBay item 6817823728 is a leather jacket that has a BIN of £139 and £20 postage, the same seller sells item 7722455673 also a leather jacket that has a BIN of £149 and yet postage is only £6.50

I sent this email to the seller

Hello

I would like to buy a jacket but am concerned at the high shipping cost
as item 7722455673 you sell ships for £6.50 which is also a leather
jacket. Can you ship the item for this price also?

Many thanks

and got this reply

Hello,
Unfortunately we are unable to do the postage any cheaper
Cheers

I then replied

then it is clearly a rip off if you can send item 7722455673 for a
third
of the postage price it is a leather jacket too what is so special about
the Indy jacket that it costs 20 quid to post it what a con LOL

The seller said

We insure this jacket with our courier as if it gets lost and the flying
jackets are sent normal
Post
Cheers

to which I replied

yeah I believe that - not

the flying jacket costs a tenner more than the Indy jacket do you think I
came down with the last shower LOL

I have received no further replies from the seller so the £139 stays in my wallet and a sale is lost.

masonic

If I was the seller, I would have blocked you from bidding after the second email.

Tight_Old_Git

masonic wrote:

If I was the seller, I would have blocked you from bidding after the second email.

Well you're not the seller so what is the point of your reply?

This site is about saving money not being ripped off.

lush_walrus

Yep me too!!! The phrase if you don't like it don't buy it springs to my mind! The postage is the persons choice so why not just factor that into the price and work out if it is worth it or not.

masonic

Tight_Old_Git wrote:

Well you're not the seller so what is the point of your reply?

This site is about saving money not being ripped off.

My point is that sellers normally take steps to avoid dealing with unreasonable people. From to tone of your emails, what makes you suppose that the seller would want anything more to do with you?

Tight_Old_Git

masonic wrote:

My point is that sellers normally take steps to avoid dealing with unreasonable people. From to tone of your emails, what makes you suppose that the seller would want anything more to do with you?

masonic there was nothing unreasonable about my email

Hello

I would like to buy a jacket but am concerned at the high shipping cost
as item 7722455673 you sell ships for £6.50 which is also a leather
jacket. Can you ship the item for this price also?

Many thanks

However when it is clear the seller is charging three times the amount to ship a cheaper item than the £149 jacket then who is the unreasonable one? Just another eBay rip off merchant.

masonic

Tight_Old_Git wrote:

masonic there was nothing unreasonable about my email

What about your second and third ones then? I made it clear in my first post that I had no issue with the first email you sent.

Reasonable people do not negotiate by flinging insulting accusations around.

"then it is clearly a rip off", "what a con LOL", "yeah I believe that - not"
and "do you think I came down with the last shower LOL" are not effective negotiating tools.

There is no need to harass the seller just because you think that they should be selling the item cheaper.

mike_paterson

This whole postage thing is a pain.
Sellers do it to catch buyers out (buyer beware) and to get around ebay fees. It is actually agianst ebay rules to charge rip-off postage but ebay do not seem to be bothered.
I was researching mmc memory cards the other day - these things are tiny and even wrapped in packaging will only cost 60p or so to post (probably a 1st class stamp would be enough), but have a p&P charge of £20.

I immediately ignore anybody that is blatently doing this and buy elsewhere, bit it is so annoying to look at buy it nows , organise them by lowest cost first and have the whole list screwed because the P&P is not counted !

Maybe ebay will eventually get their act together on this one as they must be losing loads of money !

black-saturn

masonic wrote:

If I was the seller, I would have blocked you from bidding after the second email.

Same here, so would I. If I sold to a person like that I'd know I had a difficult buyer.

Hintza

Perfectly simple if you don't like it don't bid. You asked your perfectly reasonable question in the first e-mail and were told no. You should have dropped it at that. There was no need for a sarcastic follow up!! I would have blocked you too.

shelly

Tight_Old_Git wrote:

Just another eBay rip off merchant.

But its not a rip off when postage is stated up front. (how many times does this have to be said on this board?)

You can look on e-bay at any given time and have say 10 sellers selling the exact same item as each other and most likely none of them will charge the same p+p as eachother. So are they all ripping you off too?

So what if the p+p is X on one item and XX on the other? What a seller charges is up to them and as a buyer if you don't like it you walk away. Personally if I was the seller I wouldn't have replied to your second e-mail either and blocked you straightaway. Sure, you can question a sellers postage costs but to say they are a rip off and a con.....