over charged on ebay postage. can I please have some good advice?

ballisticbrian

I stock up and don't charge my buyers though.

Don't suppose you pay income tax on your sales either do you?

butler_helen

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Don't suppose you pay income tax on your sales either do you?

No, why would I? I only ever list things hanging around the house.

I think I'm missing something in why paying income tax on sales would make me more inclined to charge the buyer for the envelope. Sorry if the answer is obvious

techspec

I can't advise you - but if the seller is reading this:-

REPORT THE BUYER FOR TRYING TO CHANGE THE PRICE AND FEEDBACK EXTORSION - its time to clamp down on scam buyers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bsms1147

good_advice wrote: »

What should I do?

You got the item you wanted delivered to you in good time, in good condition and at a price you had agreed to beforehand.

You should give the seller positive feedback and 5 stars.

soolin

techspec wrote: »

I can't advise you - but if the seller is reading this:-

REPORT THE BUYER FOR TRYING TO CHANGE THE PRICE AND FEEDBACK EXTORSION - its time to clamp down on scam buyers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If OP has not mentioned feedback then there is no feedback extortion.

Anyway, you know as well as the rest of us that sellers who routinely overcharge p and p or who believe that buyers are mugs who must pay for their bus fares, cab fares, time etc don't last long .

The overcharge isn't massive here, but it won't take a lot of low stars to get them suspended. It is a foolish seller who doesn't understand that

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

butler_helen wrote: »

Poundland 5 for £1... Or tesco 6 for 75p at the moment.

I stock up and don't charge my buyers though.

Trip to Poundland for me would involve 20 minute round car journey, £1 parking, 20 minute walk from car park and back, time spent in the shop and the money spent on a load of rubbish I don't actually need (very few people go in that kind of shop just buy what they need).

Trip to Tesco is again a 20 minute car journey and the store is massive, packed with people and their screaming kids making the trip a big headache.

I would rather buy one in the Post Office for a pound than suffer all that to save a few pence.

My nan lives in the mountains in Wales, no Poundlands anywhere and Tesco is a 55 mile round trip.

You can't assume everyone has easy access or the spare time to find cheap jiffy bags.

£1.40 excluding any packaging isn't that bad and the £4 is also within the P&P cap for the category, relax and enjoy the DVDs you've ordered at an overall price you were happy to pay:)

soolin

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head wrote: »

Trip to Poundland for me would involve 20 minute round car journey, £1 parking, 20 minute walk from car park and back, time spent in the shop and the money spent on a load of rubbish I don't actually need (very few people go in that kind of shop just buy what they need).

Trip to Tesco is again a 20 minute car journey and the store is massive, packed with people and their screaming kids making the trip a big headache.

I would rather buy one in the Post Office for a pound than suffer all that to save a few pence.

My nan lives in the mountains in Wales, no Poundlands anywhere and Tesco is a 55 mile round trip.

You can't assume everyone has easy access or the spare time to find cheap jiffy bags.

£1.40 excluding any packaging isn't that bad and the £4 is also within the P&P cap for the category, relax and enjoy the DVDs you've ordered at an overall price you were happy to pay:)

On ebay they cost around 9-10p delivered, even less if you buy in bulk.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

soolin wrote: »

On ebay they cost around 9-10p delivered, even less if you buy in bulk.

Proper JL1 jiffy bags cost me 8.25p each (inl VAT) at 2000 a time, even when I was buying 14,000 at a time delivered straight out the factory in Germany there wasn't much to be saved.

The top listing on eBay's Best Match shows £1 for 1, 24p each for 10 or 17p each for 20 and that assumes you have 10 or 20 items of the same size to sell and don't need 7 different size of jiffy bags, boxes or mailers for the random stuff you clear out the house.

You make the assumption the average private seller is a professional private seller, i.e fully clued up, often it's the opposite and if that's not good then boot them off but please don't moan about less interesting items on eBay and less bargains to be had.

ballisticbrian

No, why would I? I only ever list things hanging around the house.

I think I'm missing something in why paying income tax on sales would make me more inclined to charge the buyer for the envelope. Sorry if the answer is obvious

Because what no-one is pointing out here is the conflicting views of business sellers and private sellers. There is a big difference between the two. But here, you cross the line, saying packaging is cheap if you buy it in multiples. So you are blurring the line between business seller and private.

A private seller is likely to pay more than you are quoting for packaging as they are not selling in bulk so you are being unfair.

Equally, a business seller has other costs which DO count - they are trying to earn a living. But some people are having this argument both ways.

elisebutt65

good_advice wrote: »

Hi. I have just bought a box set of dvds and are very pleased to have won the bid.
The postage however is a different story...
I paid £4 p&p. The envelope says postage paid £2.60 and for the envelope would suggest 20p = total postage to seller £2.80.

I have asked for a part refund of £1.20 for the over charge on postage.

The seller wants to give me a total refund for dvds and postage as long as I send the dvds back at my expense.

I wish to keep the dvd box set and just have the part refund of postage of £1.20.

What should I do?

You complete & utter tightwad!!! I only buy on eBay now & guess what? I read what the p&p is BEFORE I bid.

It's postage AND packaging, and also time and money to get to the PO, or do you think the parcel magics itself there all on its' own?