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

Sugar_Coated_Owl

At least the seller can get his negs in just in time

chaotic_j wrote:

...the seller's listings clearly state that a discount will be made

Yes and you got a discount. It didn't state what the discount was so if you wanted to know you should have contacted the seller prior to bidding.

shellsuit

chaotic_j wrote: »

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.

What were the sellers actual words to sending them all in one parcel??

Time2Go_25

chaotic_j wrote: »

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.

You see it's not fee avoidance as the £10 postage for one item is fair and you have said so yourself.

shellsuit

The seller isn't charging too much postage per item so it's not fee avoidance ~ I mean, he didn't know someone would bid on X amount of them did he???

You even said you would have been happy to pay £10 postage for one if you only won one, so how can it possibly be fee avoidance?!

The only thing he is guilty of is being a poor seller if he wants to send all items in the same parcel but still charge the same postage as if he had sold them all to different buyers.

chaotic_j

Well he may have had an inkling someone would win so many, it was pretty obvious people would be aiming for a few boards since you never in a million years expect a whopping £60 postage charge..

The idea of offering a discount for multiple items is that someone can bid on multiple items, and therefore increase the bid price substantially, if you're only offering £2.50 discount for each extra board; they would have gone for a lot less than they did; maybe even unsold..

It may not be blatant fee avoidance but it is definitely unethical profiteering and against eBay rules..

Diane_239

go to the e bay community board you will find someone on there who could advice you more about this.

LilacPixie

From what I can see the seller has not actually done anything wrong. He listed several pcb boards with £10 P&P which you yourself state to be reasonable and is a similar amount to what you chrge for posting a similar item. The seller stated a postage discount on multiple purchases. You bidded on and won 7 of the PCB boards and if they had been seperate sellers you would of paid £70 in total for postage. The seller concered then sent you an invoice for £60 postage and packing rather than the listed £70.

Really where is the problem?? Yes the seller may package them in the same box but they will all need to be in seperte anti static bags plus the dimensions of the box will be larger for the 7 than just one therefor it may attract a surcharge from the courier.

From what i can tell the postage charges on each auction were clear, you chose to bid knowing that then you want to cry off just because you don't feel the seller gave you enough of a discount.

MORPH3US

arthur_dent wrote: »

OP is not in the wrong

Yes i'm affraid the OP is quite clearly in the wrong...

As a seller yourself, how would you feel if someone won one of your items and then started to moan that the postage was too much?!?

Whether the postage is too expensive or not, it was clearly stated in the auctions and the OP chose to bid on them knowing those prices...

End of story.....

littleoldme_2

if the seller has sent a combined invoice and the buyer only pays said invoice then the seller will only have to send one package (with tracking) to be covered by paypal.
it is each payment not item bought that needs to be covered .

so if the seller sends them all in one parcel then yes i think its excessive ,if he sends them seperately , then no the postage is fine.this is my own opinion.

shellsuit

The seller would be a fool to parcel them up together as he would only have one tracking number for the lot of them.