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

Tirian

punkrjb wrote: »

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)

I think you've not read the thread fully. The OP stated that the amount of discount offered was not 'there to see' - the seller simply stated that there would be a combined postage discount. They did not specify how much it would be until afterwards.

System

Tirian wrote: »

I think you've not read the thread fully. The OP stated that the amount of discount offered was not 'there to see' - the seller simply stated that there would be a combined postage discount. They did not specify how much it would be until afterwards.

you're right :beer:

I just don't get why the OP just went ahead and bid regardless then without even knowing the discount (esp. given their experienced use of eBay).

never mind, buyer beware is the lesson I've leanrt from the OP sharing their bad fortune.

goldspanners

i dont get why this thread is 6 pages long.
the answer is simple if you dont like the terms and conditions of auction or there isnt enough time to read them dont bid,if you do dont complain.

Tirian

goldspanners wrote: »

i dont get why this thread is 6 pages long.
the answer is simple if you dont like the terms and conditions of auction or there isnt enough time to read them dont bid,if you do dont complain.

I am enjoying the irony of your posting a reply that says nothing that hasn't already been said 12 times in this thread, at the same time as saying that you don't understand why the thread is so long.

Sssssss

OMG somebody please put an end to this thread!

__lsx__

In an ideal world...,

Buyers - email the seller before bidding to get a quote on the combined shipping.

Sellers - state a rough idea of what combined postage will be on the auction page or at least put 'email for a quote' on it.

Because a seller won't know how many items a particular buyer will buy in one go, they can't possibly be expected to state an absolute postage value for every possible combination of items they are selling up on the item page.

Bearing that in mind, there's a slight onus on the buyer to get a quote from the seller before bidding. At the same time, it's important that the seller charges reasonable P&P costs. The idea of a absolute/fixed % discount per item is completely at odds with charging a reasonable amount for all the items to be sent in one parcel because postage costs don't scale linearly with weight (5x the weight doesn't cost 5 times the price). In short, offering a %fixed discount per item if the seller intends to dispatch all the items in one parcel goes against ebay rules.

For all the people going on about terms & conditions blah blah blah, if t&cs are deemed unfair/unreasonable they're worth nowt re Banks Overdraft Charges anyone? If exact postage charges aren't stated on an auction page, they've still got to be reasonable otherwise you're breaking the rules of ebay.

In the days before ebay clamped down on wild postage costs, the seller would have had more leverage in situations like this one. Now that ebay has brought 'reasonable' into the picture, the argument about paying up whatever the seller specifies for p&p before/after auction closure falls apart.

Of course that said Ebay doesn't specify the reach/scope of their 'reasonable p&p charges' rule. Does it apply per auction or across all the items dispatched to a single buyer from a number of auctions? The cynic in me would say that if everything's paid for in a single paypal transaction it's the latter.

Nuff said & End of - Oh & LAST POST!!!!

angel

Last post? :rotfl:

MORPH3US

Will there be a sequel to this epic?

custardy

pulliptears

MORPH3US wrote: »

Will there be a sequel to this epic?

Edit: My bad, it wasnt the OP!