Low stars for postage - can I do anything?

Froggitt

Grrrrrr - all my delivery costs are outlined before people bid. Included recorded, combined discounts etc. I would rather people went to a different seller than marked me down on something they already knew.

And now to top it all, ebay warns me that I cant put "Do not bid if you think the postage is high" or similar into my listing.....contravening their rules apparently. I dont want buyers who think my postage is high. Go to another seller with cheaper carriage by all means. Maybe I could even post item numbers of similar items with lower postage and sellers making a loss on it.

So whats to stop me marking every purchase I make down as 1 star for postage? If everyone did this, they would do away with this ridiculous system.

Froggitt

Plus before this idiot, I had 4.9 stars for postage. Obviously none of my other buyers felt overcharged for postage. And 100% feedback, with zero negs in nine years.

Norman_Castle

Unless buyers regularly give low ratings for postage I would forget about it.

Plain_Lazy

Can't you make the postage ridiculously high so cheapskates won't even bid?

mikey72

Sometimes ebay would be better without any buyers at all.
Just sellers, and no then problems for anyone.

Lukadeh

I don't think recorded delivery is a waste of time.
Royal mail aren't paying out for any 1st or 2nd class standard parcels anymore. So basically if it hasn't been sent recorded then they won't compensate for any loss/damage.

mikey72

Lukadeh wrote: »

I don't think recorded delivery is a waste of time.
Royal mail aren't paying out for any 1st or 2nd class standard parcels anymore. So basically if it hasn't been sent recorded then they won't compensate for any loss/damage.

Do you have a link for that.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

On the point of Recorded being a waste that isn't always true. If the items being posted are genuinely rare Recorded benefits the buyer as there is less chance of the parcel being delivered to a neighbour or left on a door step, dumped at the main entry point to a multi-drop address, etc.

I now post everything too large for a letterbox by RD (RM account so no compo here) but back in my days of selling videos to people paying £30 or £40, did they go Recorded? You bet! The margin was there and if the item went missing it coundn't be replaced.

On the point of marking down for Recorded it's very unfair if the listing stated RD as in which case you shouldn't buy if it bothers you. The items I post RD come out of my profit, OK you pay for it in a way but there isn't specifically 77p added to every larger item to cover this and if someone buys two items with a larger margin, again RD is paid for out of my pocket.

OP there's not much you can do, I'm sure if you had posted the item just thrown inside a thin box and it had arrived damaged the buyer would have been complaining about poor packaging. There are a few people out there who want something for nothing, I would hope with collectables, china and the like most people understand paying a bit more so the item isn't damaged in the post is perfectly sensible.

KxMx

Lukadeh wrote: »

I don't think recorded delivery is a waste of time.
Royal mail aren't paying out for any 1st or 2nd class standard parcels anymore. So basically if it hasn't been sent recorded then they won't compensate for any loss/damage.

There is the "standard parcels" which is a special higher rate for heavier parcels and then "packets" which are normal 1st/2nd rates.

Did you mean the first?

theonlywayisup

Lukadeh wrote: »

I don't think recorded delivery is a waste of time.
Royal mail aren't paying out for any 1st or 2nd class standard parcels anymore. So basically if it hasn't been sent recorded then they won't compensate for any loss/damage.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Royal Mail have not announced anything of the sort for post office counter purchases.

They have announced that certain business rates will now not offer compensation and these INCLUDE recorded. Tracked will offer compensation up to £50.

Ludovico, have you considered getting a price for tracked? It doesn't require a signature so can go straight through the letterbox and tracks throughout its journey.