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What the funt, eBay?!

heihachi_73 — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 02:46:45 GMT

It looks like there's a problem with this listing.

Attention!

In general, listings with a low Buy-It-Now price but comparably high postage price can mislead buyers about the total cost of an item.

Please take a moment to review your listing and lower your delivery charges to ensure only postage and handling costs are being charged. The maximum postage price you can charge for your current Buy-It-Now listing is $7.

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This is a set of two VHS videos which weigh around 700 grams and would therefore go in a 3kg satchel or a small box for somewhere between $10 and $20. There isn't the slightest chance of putting them in a 500 gram satchel, let alone the fact that even a 500g satchel costs close to $9 anyway. Not to mention this was a relist where it was previously perfectly fine to list the same items. ID 162819211607. I think Basil Fawlty really could run eBay Inc. a lot better than the robots currently in charge.

Is this yet another one of eBay's scams to force people to have alledegly free postage on everything? eBay management has well and truly lost the plot if they think we can send heavy items for an absolute maximum of $7. Kimmy, rocket, eBay Inc. HQ, now.

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 02:51:21 GMT

Seems they are as deluded about postage costs as they are about postage speeds

Yet another screw you towards sellers

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

digital*ghost — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 02:56:30 GMT

They used to have postage caps in media categories but they're not supposed to apply anymore.

The way around it used to be to use calculated postage rather than flat rate, selecting the satchel size and inputting any handing costs. That way, people would get the correct total.

Sounds like a glitch, but if all else fails, the above method should work.

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

egglesdtp — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:55:50 GMT

Bear in mind that 1kg satchels are available. Even though they cannot be purchased individually, but only in packs of 10, I have found them to be very useful.

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

springyzone — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:08:00 GMT

@heihachi_73 wrote:
It looks like there's a problem with this listing.

Attention!
In general, listings with a low Buy-It-Now price but comparably high postage price can mislead buyers about the total cost of an item.
Please take a moment to review your listing and lower your delivery charges to ensure only postage and handling costs are being charged. The maximum postage price you can charge for your current Buy-It-Now listing is $7.
{e56109-227995x}
This is a set of two VHS videos which weigh around 700 grams and would therefore go in a 3kg satchel or a small box for somewhere between $10 and $20. There isn't the slightest chance of putting them in a 500 gram satchel, let alone the fact that even a 500g satchel costs close to $9 anyway. Not to mention this was a relist where it was previously perfectly fine to list the same items. ID 162819211607. I think Basil Fawlty really could run eBay Inc. a lot better than the robots currently in charge.

Is this yet another one of eBay's scams to force people to have alledegly free postage on everything? eBay management has well and truly lost the plot if they think we can send heavy items for an absolute maximum of $7. Kimmy, rocket, eBay Inc. HQ, now.

Just out of interest, what would happen if you move the cost of the item up to, say, $5 or $6?

Is that postage cost allowable then?

It sounds as if it is the ratio of item to postage cost that has triggered the alert & the ebay system somehow assumes anything only worth $3 must be very light (which is a fallacy).

You could, as you say, list it as $13 with "free' postage, which is obviously what ebay would like, but if pricing the item a bit higher works, I would do that as I think buyer perception might improve then too.

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

heihachi_73 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:04:59 GMT

I relisted it as $3 with best offer and that worked. I was initially going to relist it at $2 with $10 postage but eBay didn't allow that.

Presumably they don't think that Australia Post isn't the biggest ripoff on the planet or that sellers should always foot the bill or charge ridiculous BIN prices (including postage) for old video tapes, or whatever makes them think that posting a 700 gram article from Melbourne to Melbourne or Melbourne to Scotland should cost exactly $7.00.

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:00:36 GMT

Ebay most likely think this is still current price of stamps

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

springyzone — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:00:01 GMT

@heihachi_73 wrote:
I relisted it as $3 with best offer and that worked. I was initially going to relist it at $2 with $10 postage but eBay didn't allow that.

Presumably they don't think that Australia Post isn't the biggest ripoff on the planet or that sellers should always foot the bill or charge ridiculous BIN prices (including postage) for old video tapes, or whatever makes them think that posting a 700 gram article from Melbourne to Melbourne or Melbourne to Scotland should cost exactly $7.00.

I guess what I was thinking was that if you sell something at $2 or $3, it doesn't leave you much profit, not after you pay all the various fees, go to the trouble of posting it off etc.

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

heihachi_73 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:38:41 GMT

eBay also seems to think that the postie really does ride a 300 km/h magic carpet with their estimated delivery times!

Re: What the funt, eBay?!

gutterpunkz05 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:24:52 GMT

Bear in mind that 1kg satchels are available. Even though they cannot be purchased individually, but only in packs of 10, I have found them to be very useful.

Bought a pack of 10 1kg satchels yesterday @ $109.50 = $10.95 each. So does not help if you can only charge $7.00