Greedy seller

gazransom

The item generally sells for between £22 and £25 plus ~£2 postage.

This seller was charging £5 p+p (item is small and weighs next to nothing) plus a 3.5% Paypal premium. Also threatened negative feedback if Paypal payment wasn't made within 3 days!

I bid £10 (total £15.53) and won the item.

If he hadn't been greedy he'd have got more bids for sure.

angelcake

why bid? sellers are not allowed to add paypal charges so perhaps report him?

Altarf

Why, ebay won't do anything about it.

robnye

personally i send payment via paypal asap after winning (and dont include the paypal premium)

if they complain (which 6 havent at the moment), then they can refund and i will cancel the purchase........

gazransom

angelcake wrote:

why bid? sellers are not allowed to add paypal charges so perhaps report him?

Yes - seems to be getting more and more common though.

I had a choice. Bid and get a bargain. Don't bid and pay more. By bidding, (morally if not legally), I felt bound to honour the sellers conditions (an extra 53p).

In the end the seller lost out not me.

heathen

gazransom wrote:

Yes - seems to be getting more and more common though.

I had a choice. Bid and get a bargain. Don't bid and pay more. By bidding, (morally if not legally), I felt bound to honour the sellers conditions (an extra 53p).

In the end the seller lost out not me.

yep i agree,just look at the the big picture if your getting a bargain thats the thing whats counts for you.no the guy shoudnt charge for paypal but as you say you had a choice and decided to buy(good choice:) )

gromituk

The silver lining about charging premiums for PayPal is that exposes the amount of money this company gets from people.

JPS

gromituk wrote:

The silver lining about charging premiums for PayPal is that exposes the amount of money this company gets from people.

and let's not forget Paypal is owned and ran by eBay anyways...rich so n so's! ! :mad:

angelcake

Good comment - can't remember who! If you are getting a bargain then 35p won't make too much difference! although it is the principle! If he wanted to charge 35p for paypal he shoulda just kept Shtum!

coffeeandfags

Personally, i dont charge for paypal, and another trick to get in more bids is to offer free p&p.
I find that you usually get more that way than if you had added postage.

For example, i sold a large item last week, that other sellers were charging £20 p&p for. Their items were generally bid up to the £80 mark.

I sold the same thing with free p&p and was bid upto £115 for it. The item only cost £12 to post (parcelforce 48, sig. on delivery), so i was quids in compared to the other sellers.

Try it...it really works