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

Sssssss

always look at the percentages and here 25% discount on postage sounds like a good deal to me.

Poppycat

I have to agree with what pulliptears in post 29 and what others have said. I can see why when pulliptears states that they are doing this for there own protection and they have offered some discount I think they are being reasonable here

meester

emsywoo123 wrote: »

LOL everyone is quick to slate sellers and their being "dodgy" but what exactly has the seller done that is so drastically wrong? They have kept to their side of the deal, and now the buyer is wading in whinging about postage costs. They are as they were stated, you should have sorted this before completion.
And I know you won't like what I am saying! :rotfl:

I don't know why everyone is being so rude. If the seller is sending 7 parcels then the costs are probably reasonable.

If he is sending one parcel, they are not. This is ebay's rules. You are not allowed to make a profit on postage.

BONJOEY

if you dont want the item, dont pay for it, the seller will go through a dispute,

you may get a strike and a negative,


thats the last route to go down.

the_tired_one

I am with the seller on this one 100%.

As a buyer that has bought multiple items from 1 seller, BEFORE I bid, I ask if there are any discounts for p&p and crucially, WHAT those discounts are.

Tough luck if I bid, and then find out later that the discounts are want had hoped they would be.

silkyuk9

You have got to admit though it does miff you off that some sellers do inflate their postage costs to an unreasonable standard. I have had to pay higher postage costs than it says on the package when the item is delivered.

I have bought an item before that had a postage cost of £10 and it came with a postage sticker saying £3. is it fair to charge an extra £7 for a little bit of tape and a box and a pen to write on the box?

Generally i think good sellers and that includes me will charge a reasonable ammount to what the item will truly cost at the post office.

Yes maybe you will add an extra few pence to cover the cost of tape and box etc.

I will not buy from sellers now with inflated costs, they have lost me. I tend to buy lots of golf equipment i know a golf club is going to cost around £4-75 to post not the £10 most charge. I know a box of balls will cost around £5 so if they are charging £10 for postage and they are only worth £20 i will only bid to £10 if i win im happy but i will not bid any higher to cancel myself out of a good buy.

Poppycat

Yes I would say that's right but I think sellers doesn't want to do that to cover themselves although they have discounted individual items, so they are be reasonable if they do that.

meester wrote: »

I don't know why everyone is being so rude. If the seller is sending 7 parcels then the costs are probably reasonable.

If he is sending one parcel, they are not. This is ebay's rules. You are not allowed to make a profit on postage.

custardy

silkyuk9 wrote: »

I will not buy from sellers now with inflated costs, they have lost me. I tend to buy lots of golf equipment i know a golf club is going to cost around £4-75 to post not the £10 most charge. I know a box of balls will cost around £5 so if they are charging £10 for postage and they are only worth £20 i will only bid to £10 if i win im happy but i will not bid any higher to cancel myself out of a good buy.

thwen you would have no need to complain over any shipping costs after bidding

silkyuk9

custardy wrote: »

thwen you would have no need to complain over any shipping costs after bidding

Thats correct but it has evened itself out so i am not out of pocket.

ajaxgeezer

chaotic_j wrote: »

I was asking for constructive advice, not criticism. Advice to help me, not "well you should have done this before you bought them" etc.

......no, you're looking for someone to agree with you, but they are thin on the ground. Those things are pretty different.

chaotic_j wrote: »

I specifically asked only for those with constructive advice to post, so you're actually wasting your own time. I asked you not to post.

......it was very constructive advice. More to the point, it was spot on.

Now then..... it looks like you have three options:
a) quietly pay the £60 and learn from it
b)mischievously pay the £60 but use 5 different delivery addresses (if allowed) in order to cost the seller as much as possible.
c) don't buy them and risk the npb strike

Really though, you should sort your discounts out before you bid. If you are not able to because of time then you expect what you get I'm afraid.