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

ILW

I would see postage and packing as a service being provided by the seller. I would not expect any business to supply a service at cost.

Glad I don't have to deal with the type of Ebay buyer that would think otherwise. Sounds a nightmare.

soolin

ILW wrote: »

I would see postage and packing as a service being provided by the seller. I would not expect any business to supply a service at cost.

Glad I don't have to deal with the type of Ebay buyer that would think otherwise. Sounds a nightmare.

The problem is that if you sell you will meet these buyers- otherwise as I keep saying why would any seller ever come on here moaning they have been restricted due to their stars?

This is a meaningless discussion, if someone is serious about selling on ebay they need to be aware that many buyers will not tolerate excessive p and p and will mark the seller down.

There is no button on ebay that will allow a seller to get poor stars removed because' a few random people on an internet forum said that the buyer isn't fair'.

fred7777

theianfox wrote: »

If that's a padded envelope you need to tell me where you can get them for 20p.

You can get them for 35p here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20-x-Medium-Gold-Jiffy-Bag-type-Padded-Envelope-F-3-Software-DVD-Box-Sets-/370683571080?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D271098005053%26ps%3D54

So the OP has been "overcharged" by £1.05

having said that there are long running arguments over whether or not p&p should include just postage or more to cover the cost of packaging time and transport to the post office and £4 p&p isn't excessive compared to what some websites charge.

ILW

soolin wrote: »

The problem is that if you sell you will meet these buyers- otherwise as I keep saying why would any seller ever come on here moaning they have been restricted due to their stars?

This is a meaningless discussion, if someone is serious about selling on ebay they need to be aware that many buyers will not tolerate excessive p and p and will mark the seller down.

There is no button on ebay that will allow a seller to get poor stars removed because' a few random people on an internet forum said that the buyer isn't fair'.

It has been a real eye opener for me and Im glad I don't have to get involved in it.

I prefer the idea (as per my work) of agree a price and do the deal on that basis. To me what a seller paid is nothing to do with the selling price.

Cannot think of any other business that works like this.

RFW

ILW wrote: »

I prefer the idea (as per my work) of agree a price and do the deal on that basis. To me what a seller paid is nothing to do with the selling price.

Cannot think of any other business that works like this.

It's because/when the postage price is visible. The more people know how much something costs the nearer to that price they will want to pay. I can't think of any businesses or part of a transaction that visibly displays the cost price.
I've got a feeling Costa would sell a fair few less cups of coffee if the £2 cup had "we paid 11p for this coffee" written on it.

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ILW

poet123 wrote: »

Is it not reasonable to assume that a sum entered under the designation "P&P" is the sum due for that element of the transaction? It is implicit in that term of sale that that is the actual cost.

I don't use the shopping channel, nor do they as far as I know have a star rating system for buyers to use to give an opinion on all aspects of their service.

That is the bit i fail to understand, where is it stated that the price of PandP is the actual cost?

epm-84

ILW wrote: »

I would see postage and packing as a service being provided by the seller. I would not expect any business to supply a service at cost.

Glad I don't have to deal with the type of Ebay buyer that would think otherwise. Sounds a nightmare.

Can't stop laughing at that sentence. No business ever provides a free service. Anything that appears free is recovered through the sale of products either to yourself or other customers, if not the business will quickly go bankrupt.

Also a number of eBay sellers are private individuals getting rid of thing they don't want. They have to estimate postage costs and sometimes will overestimate and sometimes underestimate.

epm-84

fred7777 wrote: »

You can get them for 35p here:

So the OP has been "overcharged" by £1.05

Wrong. You don't know where the padded envelopes were purchased from or whether they can usefully use a bulk buy of 20 padded envelopes or whether they would be able to wait for an online order to arrive.

At WHSmith they cost £3.99 for 3 and are probably better quality than the cheap bulk buy you found.

Strapped

:rotfl:

Die, thread, die...

fred7777

epm-84 wrote: »

Wrong. You don't know where the padded envelopes were purchased from or whether they can usefully use a bulk buy of 20 padded envelopes or whether they would be able to wait for an online order to arrive.

At WHSmith they cost £3.99 for 3 and are probably better quality than the cheap bulk buy you found.

Right. My post was in response to a request for where you could get padded enveloped for 20p.

I was simply pointing out in this part of my post that you can get envelopes for close to that price.