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

TrickyWicky

All this over a lousy £1.20? Has anyone seen the petrol prices these days? - It probably cost the seller more than that to post it.

I always check the postage before buying an item. Once you buy / win it thats it - you agree to pay for it including the advertised postage. No point getting fussy about it afterwards especially if you didn't haggle before the winning bid.

There have been items I've bought that I felt a bit conned on for p&p but at the end of the day I agreed to it and so I don't hold it against the seller. Instead I'm grateful that they made the item available at an affordable price.

ballisticbrian

All this over a lousy £1.20? Has anyone seen the petrol prices these days? - It probably cost the seller more than that to post it.

I've had someone tell me they wanted to drive from West Sussex to Dunstable to pick something up to save £2.70 on postage.

TrickyWicky

ballisticbrian wrote: »

I've had someone tell me they wanted to drive from West Sussex to Dunstable to pick something up to save £2.70 on postage.

Did they actually say it was to save postage or did you assume that?

Reason I ask is that it may have been an item they needed urgently instead and not a case of trying to scrimp.

kelfen

This all over a pound - I know it's the principle but there is always the one me and OH saw yesterday.
He collects certain trading cards - card was 85p and the p+p £16.30!

good_advice

Thank you for all your comments and advice.
I have read all and made my decision.

I told the seller I was not happy with the over price of £1.20 on the postage. I would however be keeping the dvd box set and taking no further action.
I then left positive feed back.

I thought that my best option and left positive as I like to try and find some good in everyone?

Lesson learnt to look at possible over charging of postage before buying.
Padded envelopes can be bought cheaply in several shops as members have said.
On some occasions the ebay goods I buy come in things like wrapped black bag or recycled envelopes.

Some people may use the words penny pincher. How many people like to pay more than what is correct postage? It is not to be used as part payment for a won bid. I would like to think the seller was not going out on a journey to post my one item at petrol expense. I would think it is one of several parcels, or errands to be done at the shops. Who knows?

bxboards

good_advice wrote: »

Some people may use the words penny pincher.

You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. The amount of time you have wasted - with this thread and everyones responses, and the sellers time and the stress you will have caused them is worth far more than the £1.20 you tried to extort from the seller!

George_Michael

good_advice wrote: »

How many people like to pay more than what is correct postage?

But you still don't seem to appreciate that that the price you paid was the correct sum for postage, packing and handling.

good_advice

George_Michael wrote: »

But you still don't seem to appreciate that that the price you paid was the correct sum for postage, packing and handling.

No, it was not the correct price.

George_Michael

good_advice wrote: »

No, it was not the correct price.

How much did the ebay listing quote for postage, packing and handling? and how much did you pay?

If the two amounts are the same then you paid the correct price.

TrickyWicky

good_advice wrote: »

No, it was not the correct price.

How do you know? The seller may have had to drive into town to post it to you and in the process used £2 of petrol.

Just because you see the price of the postage stamp doesn't mean thats what it actually cost the seller to send.