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

mrbadexample

brettcta wrote: »

stop whinging, grow up and never darken my PC monitor with this incessant bile ever again.

That's friendly. :rolleyes:

Look carefully on your PC monitor; you should be able to locate an 'off' switch.

arthur_dent_2

As a seller I would charge about £12 postage on 7 arcarde pcb's and I would be making a prodit on that. Any more than £20 is taking the mickey. Having said that the OP should have asked how much the discount would be.

I am afraid however it may be a case of pay or deal with the consuequences. OP is not in the wrong but then theoretically and legally niether is the seller. Morally however is another story..........

arthur_dent_2

Oh and any decent seller would offer a postage discount. We could send the parcel to most of Europe for way less than £60 quid.

custardy

mrbadexample wrote: »

I agree with the OP. I think it's a complete rip-off, and I'd have simply told the seller to stick his items where the sun doesn't shine.*





*except worded more politely.

arthur_dent wrote: »

As a seller I would charge about £12 postage on 7 arcarde pcb's and I would be making a prodit on that. Any more than £20 is taking the mickey. Having said that the OP should have asked how much the discount would be.

I am afraid however it may be a case of pay or deal with the consuequences. OP is not in the wrong but then theoretically and legally niether is the seller. Morally however is another story..........

perhaps the seller has previously been stung by discounting postage and combining in one box.
thus only having 1 tracking number for 7 items.
eg a paypal chargeback on 6 of the 7
by keeping all seperate they have 7 seperate items/tracking numbers.
so £7.50 per item after discount

ajaxgeezer

It's pretty simple really - sort it out in advance or expect nothing. Caveat emptor will always rule. The seller is having a laugh, but then he's in a position to do just that.

mtm81

if the OP's still reading.. give me £50 and I'll pick em and up and delivery for you!! :beer:

silkyuk9

mtm81 wrote: »

if the OP's still reading.. give me £50 and I'll pick em and up and delivery for you!! :beer:

ill do it for £40 im off work this week.

StaffsSW

meester wrote: »

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-shipping.html

Sellers may charge reasonable postage & packaging charges to cover the costs of posting, packaging, and handling the items they are selling. While eBay will not prescribe exactly what a seller may or may not charge, eBay will consider member reports when determining whether or not a seller’s postage, handling, packaging, and/or insurance charges are excessive. Postage & packaging and handling charges may not be listed as a percentage of the final sale price.

Can you define the true cost of each sellers' postage? The stamp price is obvious, but if the seller is VAT registered, then they will have paid 17.5% on top of the displayed price. Do you know how much they purchase their bubble wrap and jiffy bags for? And handling is completely open - do you know if they employ somebody to wrap and dispatch for them? Also, if they are a business then they can quite rightfully charge for transport to the post office if that is their chosen method of dispatch - try explaining to the accountant why you spend so much on fuel yet have no income to show for it.

In the eyes of the taxman and accountants, these are indeed actual costs, and by definition can be passed on to buyers - if they are willing to pay of course!

As the OP has found out - P&P is displayed at the point of bidding - if it's not suitable, then don't bid, or ask the seller for a discount before bidding.

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

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

ajaxgeezer

stevew8975 wrote: »

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

.....that's unfair steve. The poster of the quote you pasted was talking about this particular seller, and the OP had already stated the seller was male.

chaotic_j

I had to go out, have not been back in that long.

To provide some more information, the seller has stated that all of the boards will be sent together - so he is blatantly profiting £50 or so from doing this.

The seller is not registered as a business on eBay (nor as a private seller either), allthough the second part of his email address is that of a website which is a business that sells and rents amusement gear (Pool Tables, Snooker Tables, Table Tennis, Arcade Machines etc).

I myself tend to charge £10 for heavy parcels via courier, this covers all of the quality packaging et cetera. If I had won one board, £10 would be absolutely fine!; and this is actually what I would charge myself. The last time I sold a PCB, it was put inside a brand new antistatic bag (large ones of these are not too cheap), then put inside a bubble bag, then this was put inside a quality double corrugated cardboard walled box, with void filler.

When I sell extremely bulky and heavy items, the shipping may be £12.

I sold a guitar amplifier recently, and I charged £15 for this, due to it requiring specialist packaging to protect it in transit and being very bulky, and very heavy.

eBay advised me to request that he mutually cancel the purchases; he has stated that he will not do this, and that I must pay the full amount. He echoes the sentiments of many posters on this thread, in that I should have asked before bidding.

I've purchased a lot of things before, and most of the time I'm allowed to arrange a courier myself to collect the package; if the seller refuses, because I have not asked them beforehand (this does not happen very often) then I pay the reasonable postage costs I have always been charged, however £60 is having a laugh, pure and simple.

The seller says that he doesn't need to justify his postage costs to me, or to eBay, but he's wrong, it's called fee avoidance. eBay have recently cracked down on sellers charging too much postage, since it puts people off coming back to the site.

This is NOT a case of me purchasing one or two items and refusing to pay the stated postage, or disagreeing with the postage price when an item has arrived due to the "stamp price" being less than the postage price paid - the seller's listings clearly state that a discount will be made - I could send two or more pallets for what he wants to charge.