Postage rip off

johno69

Simple solution,,,,,"IF YOU WANT IT BUY IT", stop whinging about it. The reason people charge the higher postage cost is that you do not pay commision to Ebay on the actual postage only on the final selling cost.

Have you never seen items listed for 0.01p with a £5 postage cost?.

(comment aimed at original poster)

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Road_Hog

Tight_Old_Git wrote:

Au contraire I had every intention of buying.

No you didn't, you're just trying to cover your tracks now. Too late, we all now know you for the troublemamker you are, with too much time on your hands.

Tight_Old_Git wrote:

but I will not be scammed, the same seller sells a similar leather jacket for the BIN price of £149 but only charges £6.50 for postage which includes insurance according to auction #7722455673.

Pray tell where the scam was. To scam someone is to try and deceive them. But the seller clearly listed his prices, so there was no intent to deceive.

Tight_Old_Git wrote:

The seller could not reasonably justify why he charges £20 for shipping the item I wanted so the money stays in my wallet end of .

Yes he did, he gave you a more than adequate justification, the fact that you were not willing to except it is your problem not his. He probably did block you from bidding, which is something I'd like to do. What is your ebay ID so I may do the same?

mike230652

Road_Hog

You got it absolutely spot on...TightOldGit ( i wonder if he chose the name or was already known as that ) had NO INTENTION of buying...and hasn't got the decency to own up to it.

I somehow don't see someone who sneaks his own (cheap) spirits into pubs to avoid buying drinks...and btw..isn't that a scam..if not downright illegal?????............ and hiding from water board men to save a fiver coughing up for a leather jacket !!!.....

mike

Teerah

I agree, theres no point in complaining about rip off postages on ebay if they are clearly stated in the auction. If you agree to buy then you agree to the postage charges too

MarkyMarkD

The clearest solution to all this would be for eBay to allow listing of items by total price, INCLUDING postage and packing. I can't for the life of me understand why they don't do this - it wouldn't hurt anyone legitimate, and would make it crystal clear what the total price was.

I know that there are some circumstances where the shipping costs will differ - like if you are an overseas bidder - but honestly the exceptions are trivial compared to the overall benefits.

As for the poster referring to paying petrol and parking fees to bank a cheque, just post it to your bank and that's 22p or whatever. If a bidder chooses to pay by cheque, they can wait another day or so for the cheque to arrive at the bank.

Dazzieboo

How about this one then ?

item no 250000200945 is for a BIN price of 99p, a very nice Freddy Flintoff cricket shirt which my Son would love, I almost clicked, then saw the postage cost of £16.90.

The seller actually states in the listing that the postage charge is to up the cost of the shirt. Definatly against Ebay rules but he has been doing this a long time and continues to get away with it.

Timmy

I personally don't give a monkeys what people charge for postage as long as it's clearly stated. If people are too stupid to take postage into account when deciding how much to bid then that's there own problem. If it's a buy it now price and you don't like the total cost then email the seller and ask for a deal. If they don't go for it then leave them alone. After all, if you're confident the total cost is too high then I would assume it means you know the same item ususlly sells for less so buy elswhere.

As for people talking about reporting sellers to ebay because of postage costs, why don't you get a life and do something worthwhile with it? If you really want to play ebay police then go looking for hijacked accounts or misleading scams to report and leave the genuine sellers who are being up front and just trying to make selling worthwhile to get on with selling to those who are happy to buy from them.

soolin

Timmy the problem with your argument is that inflating post and packing makes ebay a two tier system for buyers dependent on whether they pay by paypal or by another means.

You are probably not aware that there is a huge difference between an ebay claim and a paypal claim and whilst in the case of non arrival a paypal claim will pay the buyer out in full an ebay claim will only pay out item cost excluding p and p. To be safe therefore a logical conclusion to your argument would be that all buyers should use paypal backed by a credit card, that might suit me but it isn't going to make a lot of other users of this forum happy.

It is also worth noting that sellers are also cheating themselves in that in the case of a Royal Mail claim only the item cost is refunded, so that seller trying to beat the system merely ends up out of pocket themselves should the item be lost.

Soo

Timmy

I don't like Paypal full stop. They left me in a no win situation when I bought a faulty item by insisting I paid fully insured signed for return postage which cost me over a tenner. They also leave sellers with the worry of chargebacks from the fraudsters and people who haven't read item descriptions properly.

To make that quite clear, if you buy a faulty item using paypal and make a complaint, ebay will refer you to paypal and if they do come down on your side they will still insist you return the item at your own expense using a trackable signed for service which on a heavy item can often cost more than the items value!! If you don't do this then paypal give you no help or protection if the buyer doesn't refund. Paypal suck!

However, depending on the situation, I will accept it from those who still want to use paypal but I'm not going to pay for it! For this reason buyers paying another way get a discount on postage that still means I'm better off than if I take paypal. I can't see how there's any problem there at all.

I've been ebaying for 5 years and only had to do 2 Royal Mail claims. When claiming I put evidence of the full high street RRP of a replacement item which was more than my item sold for anyway so that covered the Royal Mail stitch up of not refunding for the service they didn't provide!

hilary1

Ebay should stop sellers advertising 99p items then charging £10 (example) postage etc for items that mean postage is actually inflated to cover the cost of the item.

I was going ot bid on some Loreal cream until I saw the item was £5 and the postage was £5. I emailed and asked if it wsaa a typing error to be told no so I bid on a different one with the postage £1.50. Ofcourse when it arrived the postage was around £1 which is fine. I noticed that the bin £5 doesnt really sell, suprise suprise but there is always people who woll pay over the price they could go to boorts and buy the same thing for.

Rip offs - yes, but you have the choice not to bid.