Added postage to an item in a free P&P category on ebay?

cyril82

tajna wrote: »

Well i got the following reply back from Ebay:

hello Tajna,

Thank you for your email.

I understand that you want to bid on the item number 320399217965. If
the seller has listed the item with zero postage, they cannot charge
you any extra on that.

If you win this item you need not give £3.00 extra for postage.

I hope I have clarified the matter to you in this regard.

Kind regards,

Nicolas Samson


There's 2 bids so far on the item.

I don't think this ebay response comes as any surprise, what are they going to say to a question like that?

if they say you do have to pay it they are effectively saying their new policy is meaningless and from their point of view the seller is breaching his contract with them.

My objection to buying then refusing to pay the stated charge is that the seller has lowered his sale price to compensate and if you want to dispute/question anything in the listing you should question it before bidding, (that’s according to ebay, contradicts their email to you though) if you do that it levels the playing field, the seller can agree to remove the charge but quite rightly can choose to increase the sale price.

Anything ebay say to you should be taken with a pinch of salt because they contradict themselves at every turn, as stated above telling you that you can bid then not pay contradicts their policy recommendation that any problems or queries should be address prior to bidding, they also tell you that bidding forms a legal contract between you and the seller that states you agree to buy the item and abide by his terms, so it's a further contradiction to then tell you that you can ignore those apparently legally binding terms.

and since i have stated my point of view on this and am pretty bored with the topic now let me just say this; For all of those claiming to be taking the moral high ground i.e. "i'm not paying because he's breaking the rules" stop lying, if you objected to the rule break you would report it and not buy from the seller, in reality you are exploiting the rule break for your own financial gain, end of.

SpammyTheSpammer

And it is still showing as listed! Now repiorted about 4 times. GreedBay - doncha just luvvem!

cyril82

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

And it is still showing as listed! Now repiorted about 4 times. GreedBay - doncha just luvvem!

maybe you should take the hint?

cyberbob

Someone else trying to avoid free Postage

kevinyork

cyberbob wrote: »

Someone else trying to avoid free Postage

His idea of showing pick up only as the only option will mean many wont even click on the listing.

Claire_Bear

Yep, sneaky and annoying, but most people won't even bother to click. I saw a lot of these while browsing recently, along with a lot of jewellry from China which was 1p, free postage, but inside the listing is a message saying 'Because I am operating at a loss, I charge £3 Insurance, which you HAVE to take out, otherwise I'll cancel your bid' Are you allowed to force insurance on someone?

cyberbob

Claire_Bear wrote: »

Are you allowed to force insurance on someone?

No your are not allowed to force surcharges which that would count as

cyberbob

kevinyork wrote: »

His idea of showing pick up only as the only option will mean many wont even click on the listing.

I know it means that the seller is actually doing themselves out of business

Smart_But_Casual

Claire_Bear wrote: »

Yep, sneaky and annoying, but most people won't even bother to click. I saw a lot of these while browsing recently, along with a lot of jewellry from China which was 1p, free postage, but inside the listing is a message saying 'Because I am operating at a loss, I charge £3 Insurance, which you HAVE to take out, otherwise I'll cancel your bid' Are you allowed to force insurance on someone?

I'm sure "someone" will be a long shortly to tell you that the buyers T&Cs certainly do mean that they can do that and if you are happy with the price then it shouldn't be an isssue, yaa dee daaa de da......

However, ebays T&Cs certainly mean that they can't do it and if they cancelled a bid they should then face the consequences of being reported for non performance and neg feedback.

In essence they are destroying their own business.

Claire_Bear

Haha yes, I was really posing the question to everyone apart from 'someone' :rotfl:

Is there any way that they would have to send me the items? I wouldn't want to waste my time reporting them if there was no chance I would get the items sent.