Postage and packing insults

[PGowdy]

if ebay didnt take 10% and royal mail charge £4 for a small recorded packet it would be ok.

i think the seller has a right to charge (within reason) what he wants, if you dont like it dont pay it, just drop his star rating down, but i wouldn't leave a negative, you see the price, you pay it.

Yes, but you don't know if you've been overcharged till it arrives do you? LIke chazb73 says, you pay £5 shipping thinking, 'well that's dear but i'm sure it'll be sent well packed 1st class recorded delivery' and then it arrives wrapped in tissue paper sent 2nd class for 60p. Sorry that's out of order and would get begged every time. If sellers intentionally (significantly) overcharge for postage they deserve a neg. Especially if you contact them asking for the difference they conned from you to be told "you're a cheeky bastard". I'd neg him and phone ebay to get my money back.

Well yeah being ripped off is totally different, if it states 1st class recorded and they send it plain 2nd in a jiffy bag that wrong, but some people complain when shipping is say £4 and they send narky emails saying " £4 is a rip off when you COULD have sent it for 90p" even when they have the figure they leave a neutral or knock your stars down.

i charge £22.00 for international as a starter as i now use fedex (unless its a single fig or letter) and get loads of abuse but i dont care.

people can see i actually pay that price but still mark my stars down because i wouldnt use a cheap option for them.

Ah, yes, i see what you're saying. Yeah, 2 totally different things. We are agreed on both. 8)

 

[weasel]

It's the dicks that get me, 67p crap packaging charged a fiver :evil:

That's easily solved, three little words............item not received! :lol:

 

[chazb73]

It's the dicks that get me, 67p crap packaging charged a fiver :evil:

That's easily solved, three little words............item not received! :lol:

:lol: :lol: very true!

 

[SOJ]

I charge £5 on most things as I send everything recorded via Hermes unless it is really small.

I do this because even with Royal Mail recorded you can't trust the postmen to get a signature. Twice in the last 3 months something I've sent recorded allegedly hasn't shown up and I've had to go through the claims process that takes a month.

Hermes charge £4.10 with tracking and a signature. With cost of packing and 4% paypal charge £5 I think is a fair price. I get my own piece of mind and not have worry about EBay ALWAYS siding with the buyer. I also don't have queue in the post office during my lunch hour. I am drop it off in the supermarket until 22:00.

Unless you post regularly I don't think you realise how my conning bastards are out there.

 

[Frunkstar]

Yeah buying & even selling single figures has become a bit of a mine field, most will go as a large letter but there are quite a few that step up to small parcel size, so straight away its £4.10 to post first recorded, then your packing costs, then ebay rape you for a percentage of the postage cost (just how wrong is that then :? ) & then on top you get a small percentage taken off from paypal, so as Iain said, you can loose money if selling one for 99p.

I really take care when packaging items & charge a fair price for postage & am always out of pocket on the postage if I sell something small, its become a joke & not worth bothering with TBH.

& when buying is just the same story, nit worth buying a single loose as it costs you double its value once you add on the postage costs.