Stupid buyer now wants to negotiate P&P.

MORPH3US

Good spot Wings of Ambition....

I hope that Martin means "asking" before you bid as otherwise, I very strongly disagree with him....

The items cost me £5+ for packaging so if he had asked up front to organise his own courier then I would have probably said yes, but I wouls still have wanted to charge £5 for packaging because I was still incurring that cost.

mikey72

MORPH3US wrote: »

Good spot Wings of Ambition....

I hope that Martin means "asking" before you bid as otherwise, I very strongly disagree with him....

The items cost me £5+ for packaging so if he had asked up front to organise his own courier then I would have probably said yes, but I wouls still have wanted to charge £5 for packaging because I was still incurring that cost.

Why?
it's a moneysaving forum. If you save it, someone else has to pay it somewhere. That's the whole point of this entire website.
You can pick and choose which bits of his advice you want to follow.

frivolous_fay

If you want to fart about begging for postal discounts / cheap couriers / other arrangements, the time to do it is before you bid.

surfichick

I'd say stick to your guns. There are thousands of foreign sellers especially that whack up the p&p and have a super cheap start price without complaint from buyers. £12 sounds reasonable. If the buyer is still a muppet, take it up with ebay. When confirming a bid buyers are reminded that it is a binding agreement (this includes cost of ins, p&p etc). If the buyer wasn't happy with the p&p costs they should have raised a Q before bidding/winning.

smashed

The last time I looked many leading high street brands charged £5 odd for postage, even if the item was just a pair of socks. I dont think you can barter with Marks & Spencer etc, so why do people think that they can barter with somebody on ebay...AFTER they have bid to pay a particular price.

mikey72

smashed wrote: »

The last time I looked many leading high street brands charged £5 odd for postage, even if the item was just a pair of socks. I dont think you can barter with Marks & Spencer etc, so why do people think that they can barter with somebody on ebay...AFTER they have bid to pay a particular price.

Er, because we all haggle, and if you don't, it means the rest of us can get a better deal. Read this site.
The buyer is a professional buyer and seller. He's already admitted he just wants to maximise his profits, and he's tried it on, failed, then paid the asking price.
In no way is that anything he has done that anyone here could class as "stupid" or a "muppet"
As even the op has said, good luck to him.

smashed

I never called him stupid or a muppet
So you haggle with M&S etc when buying online? :S Really :S

mikey72

Yes. Ring them up, ask for a reduction.

rob_brighton

I have just come back from NZ where i traded a lot on trademe (a NZ version of ebay)

in new zealand they have the same rules about "reasonable" postage, but over there it means you pay for packaging and stamps, over here it seems to be an excuse for getting a few more ££.

I always leave negative feedback if the seller charges anything more than £1 over the cost of the stamps. I seems to be too easy to round it up to a fiver.

Am i being harsh? maybe, but i like to think of ebay as a community

re. negotiating postage costs after an auction, well this is only going to happen if the seller quoted too much in the first place.

jps71

rob_brighton wrote: »

I always leave negative feedback if the seller charges anything more than £1 over the cost of the stamps. I seems to be too easy to round it up to a fiver.

Am i being harsh? maybe, but i like to think of ebay as a community

re. negotiating postage costs after an auction, well this is only going to happen if the seller quoted too much in the first place.

Please can you tell me your ebay user name so that I can put you on my blocked bidders list.

Many items I have sold have cost more than £1 for the packaging materials.
To get to the nearest OPEN post office is a 14 mile round trip costing £2.50-£3 in fuel not counting the time it takes.

So like a lot of sellers I incorporate the costs in to my P&P charges if people think I charge to much for delivery then they have no need to bid.
If they bid then they are accepting my p&p charges.