Not sure if i'm being picky or not...

vicx

I can see your point however would you be still be so bothered if she charged 99p delivery and you won the bid for £3.00 and packaged the item the same? You would have still paid £3.99 in total as that is the over all price you were happy to pay.

I do agree she has overcharged on postage and packaging but I can also understand that the seller may have thought item would be a small packet (£2.70 1st class) and it has gone through as a large letter (£1.20). Rather than show your disappointment through feedback/star rating - how about contacting seller first to try and resolve things.

sniggings

I think the post office charged her the wrong price, £1.20 is the price for 1st large letter, clearly a skirt packaged the way you say would not be less the 25mm thick, sounds to me it should have been a small packet which would have cost 2nd class £2.20 or 1st £2.70 not taking costs for the packaging or getting to the post office.

I think you should put this down to her being undercharged by the PO rather than her overcharging you.

anrutpea

I would leave her average feedback but state that packaging costs were high and item was not packaged very well.

At least future buyers who read feedback before they purchase will know what to expect.

P&P is just another way that sellers try to fleece money out of buyers

Mindless_Clone

I would not say £3 is overcharging for p&p but I would say it sounds poorly packaged and that, if anything, I would mark her down on.

Crowqueen

It is overcharging if it is more than the price listed on the stamp, particularly if it double what the seller paid and the packaging is pants.

This is something that is easily quantifiable - there's no real excuse for additional costs over and above a small cost for packaging. Buyers don't like it, so most business sellers would factor other overheads into their original model. Private sellers can't charge for their time, and their volume is likely to be such that charging for transport is going to work out to be too much per unit to make them competitive.

I don't mind additional costs in proportion to how much packaging might cost, but I'm annoyed when I pay £2.25 for postage and it comes in a single ordinary envelope with a 79p stamp on it. There's nothing a seller could do or say to make it any different, and it's not worth my time asking for a small refund and risking getting an earbashing in exchange.

It really, really, is not common sense for sellers to overcharge on postage and then force buyers to go grovelling for partial refunds before leaving justified feedback.

amyloux

To me, £3 IS overcharging for p&p if the postage and packaging combined does not come to £3. It musn't have cost her more than £1.50 overall to post it with the poor packaging and the cheap postage. I sell on ebay all the time and i ALWAYS pack items securely in nice mailing bags with the item well wrapped. I expect to receive items in a similar way. If the item was £3 then i would not have bid, however because it was 99p i was more than happy to.

Mozzi

There are quite a few posts on here about unreasonable P&P costs.

Point to note, the last few small packets I posted, 2nd recorded, cost £3.15 each (for under 1kg), postage costs have risen quite a bit recently, almost making selling items of low value just not worth the effort anymore.

soolin

Mozzi wrote: »

There are quite a few posts on here about unreasonable P&P costs.

Point to note, the last few small packets I posted, 2nd recorded, cost £3.15 each (for under 1kg), postage costs have risen quite a bit recently, almost making selling items of low value just not worth the effort anymore.

These are t shirts though so unless badly packed should go as a large letter.

In your case using recorded is really making the postage too expensive as you will be up against the majority of sellers like me who charge just £2.20 for the same package.

theonlywayisup

Mozzi wrote: »

There are quite a few posts on here about unreasonable P&P costs.

Point to note, the last few small packets I posted, 2nd recorded, cost £3.15 each (for under 1kg), postage costs have risen quite a bit recently, almost making selling items of low value just not worth the effort anymore.

0-750g second class packet is £2.20. Adding recorded for 95p a parcel is an expensive way to post. Anything from 751g to 1kg is £4.45 recorded second class packet.

First, second and recorded (which is either first or second) only offer the same insurance of up to £46. A proof of posting will cover you, so unless you specifically need a signature on delivery, why bother?

kev225

Crowqueen wrote: »

It really, really, is not common sense for sellers to overcharge on postage and then force buyers to go grovelling for partial refunds before leaving justified feedback.

It really, really, is not common sense for buyers to buy items knowing the postage costs and then hassle sellers for partial refunds by essentially using feedback blackmail.

OP, you got a bargain, how much real detriment to you was this 'lesser' packaging? Perhaps get out of bed on the right side tomorrow and at worst leave poor stars if you still feel so hard done by.