Seller wants to charge £60 postage.. help please..

Cute_'n'_Quirky

smartie1976 wrote: »

For £60, I would expect each item to be posted individually, in order to warrant the high cost.
If the seller were to send them in the same parcel and the postage cost be considerably cheaper, then you could report them for excessive postage.

But I kind of think that this should have been discussed before purchase, as the seller has given you a discount, even though it seems paltry.

How do we report a Seller for excessive postage please?

I am having this same problem with a Seller.

emsywoo123

For goodness sake, is this really still being debated?
If he does not like the postage costs, he should not have bid, end of.
Buyers like this are a pain.

angel

So could something be clarified here as I hadn't thought of it before I read through this thread.

Last week I sold three nail varnishes that were listed seperately. I gave a discount on the postage and sent them all in one package. Am I leaving myself open to a claim as I only have one tracking number and the buyer is dodgy and says that only one package arrived?

soolin

angel wrote: »

So could something be clarified here as I hadn't thought of it before I read through this thread.

Last week I sold three nail varnishes that were listed seperately. I gave a discount on the postage and sent them all in one package. Am I leaving myself open to a claim as I only have one tracking number and the buyer is dodgy and says that only one package arrived?

Claims for non arrival are not done via ebay but paypal, so it doesn’t matter how many listings you combine into one package. What does matter is how many paypal payments you take, so if the three nail varnishes were paid for in 3 transactions technically you needed to post each separately. If one paypal payment was made for the three combined then one package is sufficient.

Brooker_Dave

doingwhatican wrote: »

I take it these were all seperate auctions. If so then I would pay for them all seperately. This will cost the seller a bit more in fees.
And I bet that they will send them all in one box to save on their own costs, and when this box arrives I would then raise a dispute via paypal for items not received for the rest of them. Wait at least 7 days before raising the dispute as this goes against the seller further as they have not send the items in a timely manner.

Isn't that fraud?

Brooker_Dave

meester wrote: »

He's not allowed to charge more than his actual costs. Simple as that....

ebay law vs real law...

The taxman expects a business to profit from shipping/postage.

Tirian

The taxman also likes to profit from postage themselves - charging VAT on postage for imported goods rather than just on the value of the goods!

meester

stevew8975 wrote: »

Grrrrrr. Personal pet hate!! Not all sellers are male!! Or does this mean female sellers can charge what they want?!!:rotfl:

My personal pet hate is people using 'he or she', 'she', or worst of all 'they', when they mean 'the person (whose gender is not known)'. The use of 'he' as a non-gender specific third person pronoun is well established and has been for years. Please let us not descend into the barbarism that is using 'they' to refer to a single person.

meester

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

ebay law vs real law...

The taxman expects a business to profit from shipping/postage.

That's not strictly true. The postage is VATable, because it is a service to the buyer as part of the contract for sale, the service being provided is not postage, it is the goods (stamps are not VATable). But in terms of P+L the tax to the businessi s only taxable if a profit is made.

System

IMO the OP should have been upfront with the seller by asking for a quote on combined postage instead of just assuming he'd get a better deal than the discount offered - which was there to see in the first place.

(Having said that, I do feel sorry for the OP £60 is excessive)