Unhappy With Postage Charged By Seller & Actual Postage Seller Paid

Stoke

theEnd wrote: »

Could be charging you for time, for a long drive to the post office, whatever.

You know the cost before you buy. Your bid (and others) will be lower to reflect this.

While I agree you know the cost before buying, the postage and packaging is part of the service of the seller. To charge £12 for second class which ultimately cost about £4 is wrong. We've all made a pound or two on postage but selling item but this is taking the mick really.

ballisticbrian wrote: »

clonetrooper, just so you're not in the dark, this gets thrashed out on here once every couple of weeks, and it can start to go down hill rapidly with arguments for what constitutes postage and packing etc and various other rights and wrongs.

It's always strange that people on here find stuff like drop shipping morally reprehensible yet scamming people on postage costs perfectly okay. Weird world we live in.

ballisticbrian

It's always strange that people on here find stuff like drop shipping morally reprehensible yet scamming people on postage costs perfectly okay. Weird world we live in.

I find it strange that people have the time to try to pick arguments out of nothing rather than try to help the posters with their questions.

mrs_sparrow

At the end of the day, it could be a mistake or it could be the seller lives rural and has a 30 mile drive to the Post Office, or they love somewhere that posting is not asy. or they made a mistake and used an old listing.

The seller can charge whatever they like though and the onus on you, as a buyer, is to work out whether that charge is fair before buying from that seller. To pay it, the complain about it, is just ridiculous If you know about the item or have seen others elsewhere for 1/3 of the price, how big a deal is it to email the buyer and say 'hey, is this postage cost correct?' BEFORE bidding.

We are all to happy to complain after - the OP even said he was happy with the final price he paid.

Meh!

nomoneytoday

You bid the total price.

If it was too much, you could have bid on another item instead.
Whether it's made up of £1 plus £39 p&p or £40 with "free" p&p makes no difference to the final figures.

angel00079

OP, did you report this to the police? It may be your word against theirs but there will be a record of the incident. If similar incidents occurred this would arouse suspicion.

sequence

angel00079 wrote: »

OP, did you report this to the police? It may be your word against theirs but there will be a record of the incident. If similar incidents occurred this would arouse suspicion.

:rotfl:..........

Stoke

sequence wrote: »

:rotfl:..........

Have to agree tbh.

Obviously_the_best

angel00079 wrote: »

OP, did you report this to the police? It may be your word against theirs but there will be a record of the incident. If similar incidents occurred this would arouse suspicion.

What's happened to the OP isn't illegal, it's just poor business practise if you like keeping customers.

mrs_sparrow

angel00079 wrote: »

OP, did you report this to the police? It may be your word against theirs but there will be a record of the incident. If similar incidents occurred this would arouse suspicion.

PMSL, I can't decide whether there is sarcasm involved here... :rotfl:

ToThePoint

mrs_sparrow wrote: »

At the end of the day, it could be a mistake or it could be the seller lives rural and has a 30 mile drive to the Post Office, or they love somewhere that posting is not asy. or they made a mistake and used an old listing.

The seller can charge whatever they like though and the onus on you, as a buyer, is to work out whether that charge is fair before buying from that seller. To pay it, the complain about it, is just ridiculous If you know about the item or have seen others elsewhere for 1/3 of the price, how big a deal is it to email the buyer and say 'hey, is this postage cost correct?' BEFORE bidding.


We are all to happy to complain after - the OP even said he was happy with the final price he paid.

Meh!

It's postage and packing, not to pay your fuel costs, internet access etc. You choose to sell on there, it's not the buyers responsibly to pay your bills!

And sellers cannot charge what they like for postage. Always the same story on here, seems its fair game to scam the buyers on postage.

What lovely people


http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/selling-practices.html#postage