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

Nerja_2

As a seller if you buy expensive envelopes in the post office and charge for your petrol and parking costs, don't be surprised if you get bad scores for postage as you are charging more than your competitors.

plumface

Nerja wrote: »

true, but if after you receive it you find the postage is a lot lower than you have paid then you are entitled to be annoyed. Btw I don't know if £1.20 is a sum that counts as a lot lower.

How do you work that out?
The only thing you are entitled to be is red faced and embarresed for being a bit of a prr@tt for not doing your research properly!

plumface

Nerja wrote: »

As a seller if you buy expensive envelopes in the post office and charge for your petrol and parking costs, don't be surprised if you get bad scores for postage as you are charging more than your competitors.

The point is WHY should you be marked down for actually having the cheek to include ALL costs in the p&p charge and making them obviously visible for idiots like you to ignore and to complain about after agreeing to the purchase?

This_Year

emweaver wrote: »

Not everyone has a scales at home, I haven't.

:doh: OK then, most people have a set of scales at home. I use my kitchen scales to weigh my parcels.

This_Year

Still comes down to cost of ownership. As ballisticbrian pointed out earlier.

RFW

emweaver wrote: »

Not everyone has a scales at home, I haven't.

As for the assumption the envelope cost 20p, where I live not even the post office sells ones for boxsets for that price. I pay 45p for one the size of a DVD! Then we have to pay to park just to go to the post office, maybe the seller does too so factors this in aswell.

If you tell buyers you are charging them for your parking charges or your saliva for licking an envelope you're asking for trouble.

Work it in your profit, don't add it to the postage and expect no complaints.

As for scales, if you sell different items regularly on Ebay you should have scales, you can get useful ones for under a fiver.

Bella73

If you are that worried then buy from a proper shop. Sorted.

Like many people have said. READ the p&p before you bid.

Everyone has a choice whether to buy an item off eBay or not and let's be honest we do it to try and save money but if you get your knickers in a twist over postage then suggest you buy from mainstream retail, you might even get free p&p just pay loads more for the actual item.

Do get fed up with people whining about it and before I must be a seller actually I've never sold anything on eBay but I have bought things...I'm just grateful they arrive to be honest as I never bid in anything that I couldn't afford to lose the money as some sellers don't even send the item which to me is a thing to get a bit more miffed about.

emweaver

RFW wrote: »

If you tell buyers you are charging them for your parking charges or your saliva for licking an envelope you're asking for trouble.

Work it in your profit, don't add it to the postage and expect no complaints.

As for scales, if you sell different items regularly on Ebay you should have scales, you can get useful ones for under a fiver.

Not everyone are business sellers. Some people do still sell their own items on ebay at auction.

bsms1147

Two identical items,

1. £80, free P&P
2. £75, with £5 P&P on top

Say you get the item and you find that postage was only £1.

Based on the (admittedly absurd) logic displayed in this thread, a lot of people would try and reclaim £4 from the second seller? This is despite them being the same price overall

Perhaps some people would deliberately buy the second with the opinion that they will then try and claim some money back after they've formed the contract..

soolin

bsms1147 wrote: »

Two identical items,

1. £80, free P&P
2. £75, with £5 P&P on top

Say you get the item and you find that postage was only £1.

Based on the (admittedly absurd) logic displayed in this thread, a lot of people would try and reclaim £4 from the second seller? This is despite them being the same price overall

Perhaps some people would deliberately buy the second with the opinion that they will then try and claim some money back after they've formed the contract..

And this shows exactly why this thread is useless.

The few of us here on this thread do not represent the millions of people buying on eBay, it doesn't matter what any of us think. All that matters is that if there is even a small minority of buyers who will drop a star for a perceived overcharge on p and p then we sellers need to understand that.

Lets face it , This thread is not about what is right or wrong, in effect it is what can we get away with before getting restricted.

I prefer to say it how it is, by all means charge what you like as long as a newbie seller reading this thread understands that if enough buyers disagree with our charges we will get restricted and may ultimately lose our eBay account. That's all I ask, make sure that sellers understand the risks.