extortionate P & P charges

StaffsSW

going2die_rich wrote: »

Nope, I stand by it. The seller deserves what they get for ripping people off... spam away, ruin their credit rating, see how they like being screwed over

Next you will be telling us to use our workplace franking machine for postage....

neilwoods

Would the poilce bother with spam email's, of course not. But ebay will, and the OP more than likely will be banned should they follow your advice.

To ruin a person's credit, would require a person to try and obtain credit in that person's name or try to obtain goods in there name. Ie indentity theft or obtaining goods by deception. So yes the police would take an interest in this.

To suggest to a person to try and commit an act of this nature is pure idiocy and downright illegal. After all if this person did take your advice and was caught, all they would have to do say that you put them upto it.

Stealing eggs from a nest is a crime, so why not arrest people. especially when some of the eggs are from endangered birds and cost several thousands of pounds for a single egg

carolinosourus

stevew8975 wrote: »

Next you will be telling us to use our workplace franking machine for postage....

:rotfl: ROFL Yup then people would be posting pledging their somewhat misguided support for him when he got sacked for blatently stealing!

custardy

TBH it doesnt bother me how the price is broken down.
just the total price.
however there is the issue of only getting the item value on a PP claim,plus in this case if i paid £9 delivery i would expect very prompt delivery for that price

StaffsSW

Going2die_rich appears to be a persistant inflammatory troll. A selection of quotes from various places across the net

"'I'd have slashed her tyres and then scrapped "Tough" on her door"

"Get a key and scrape it all down the side of the car facing the road. That will stop them parking on the street and get it in the drive way."

"as long as one of the bricks land in her face, justice is done"

"I have no sympathy for FD, it deserves to go under for introducing fees at all."

"She should be put down and the child taken by a family who can't have children"

"Pay her a visit and "help" her see the error of her aways"

"Time to stamp out the treehuggers and continue our progress. If them treehuggers want to help the environment, they are free to go off to africa and live in a mud hut without any pollution...."

" Sorry to say, but your husband sounds like a bit of prat to me"

"f someone is willing to go to the police, you obviously didn't hit them hard enough, so the second attempt needs to be better."

"I'd have given the landlord a week max, then it would have been time to get a baseball bat... which solves most of life's problems."

"If you have a back lane just tip your rubbish out in the middle of the lane"

"Go around with a two big guys, maybe a very angry barking dog"

"Sounds like your neighbour needs a good kicking so he can see the error of his ways"

" Keep your cat in for a few nights and just put a power supply (low voltage) to the cat flap. A few shocks and the cats will fear your cat flap."

"Just open another account with a different bank in your aunts name. Stick the cheque in and then transfer the money to you. That way as long as the first statement isn't shown to anyone, the £30k never existed"


The standard of "constructive" advice offered speaks volumes about the sort of person we are dealing with.

(I've also stumbled across an email address - any suggestions what i can do with it...?!!!)

frivolous_fay

Popcorn, anyone?

StaffsSW

Don't worry - I'm not going to go further into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent....

fuzzgun19

soolin wrote: »

OP There is an easy way out of this really. Postage and packing now has its own star on the sellers feedback, so just leave an accurate rating , maybe 3* to reflect your feelings on the amount charged.

If I were charged £10 p&p and the actual cost was say £3-4 tops, and to be told "TOUGH", I would'nt be giving them any more than 1* on their p&p feedback!

elainew

Gawd i'm sorry i asked now
Wouldnt dream of spamming someone --at the end of the day i knew what the postage was but would have thought at least half of that money would have been on postage costs.
As i said before its been a lesson learnt and one i wont do again

Elaine x

toasterman

As an occasional ebay seller myself, I can understand why postage charges are sometimes higher than it really costs.

Unless you weigh the item at home, you're not to know how much it costs to send. Sometimes if I have a lot to sell and not much time, this means I put £10 postage for each item. On some, it costs less, on some it might cost more.
Add in my time and a bit for potentially being messed around by people asking me to ship to Uganda, and it sounds fair to me, to guesstimate it.

And surely you can charge whatever you like for postage, the same as you can charge whatever you like for the item? If you sell a car for £1000 but according to Parker's it's only worth £500 - I don't see anyone has any right to complain.
With Ebay, you've got all the info about charges in black and white in front of you. Nobody has moved the goalposts. You don't see Currys getting fined for charging a tv £50 more than somewhere else.