topic Re: Free Postage but $30 fee? in Buying

Free Postage but $30 fee?

2dned — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:32:44 GMT

I am trying to buy an Office Gaming Chair, the ad show Free Postage but when i go to the checkout i have $30 delivery charge?

It is not only 1 but most i tried. This is false advertising which i see on most item i purchase now.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

springyzone — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:39:17 GMT

Don't know if this is the answer but I have read that people accessing ebay via mobile phone can sometimes have a false free postage shown. Try a computer or laptop and see.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

2dned — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:53:40 GMT

thanks but yeah on desktop

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

springyzone — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:00:32 GMT

Hmm, I don't know then. It is sounding to me as if it may be an item that does not have a set postage price & a different postage amount may be charged depending on where you live & how far away it is from the warehouse.

Are you able to list an item number? We're a curious lot in here so we could look it up and see what it is showing for us.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

repentatleisure1952 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:02:01 GMT

@2dned wrote:
thanks but yeah on desktop

Can you provide an item # please?

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

sandypebbles — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:02:26 GMT

What is the item number?

Is it 'free' to your area

Or 'freight' contact seller for price?

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

2dned — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:24:13 GMT

hi sry for sly reply

Item number: 305693733872

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/305693733872?var=604724413190

I have noticed the ad has changed, shows a post price and different purchase price now.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

repentatleisure1952 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:51:48 GMT

@2dned wrote:
hi sry for sly reply
Item number: 305693733872
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/305693733872?var=604724413190

I have noticed the ad has changed, shows a post price and different purchase price now.

Thank you.

The listing was ended by the seller on August 16 because of an error in the listing.

Shows free postage to me.

However it would be a hard pass from me.

China based seller with not so stellar feedback... not too bad but not great.

Remember... cheap no good... good no cheap.

Buy a quality product locally.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

sandypebbles — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:01:16 GMT

I agree

Utterly dodgy as seller, registered in China and feedback down the loo

They would not have gotten my business to start with, even if the chair and the postage was free

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

sugar249 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:29:13 GMT

@repentatleisure1952 wrote:
@2dned wrote:
hi sry for sly reply
Item number: 305693733872
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/305693733872?var=604724413190

I have noticed the ad has changed, shows a post price and different purchase price now.

Thank you.

However it would be a hard pass from me.
China based seller with not so stellar feedback... not too bad but not great.
.

Not to bad!!!!!! Really!!! 98.4%, but if you added all the neutrals to that it would drag it down even further. And have a read of them, dodgy as. Why would anyone buy from them.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

repentatleisure1952 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:22:50 GMT

@sugar249 wrote:
@repentatleisure1952 wrote:
@2dned wrote:
hi sry for sly reply
Item number: 305693733872
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/305693733872?var=604724413190

I have noticed the ad has changed, shows a post price and different purchase price now.

Thank you.

However it would be a hard pass from me.
China based seller with not so stellar feedback... not too bad but not great.
.
Not to bad!!!!!! Really!!! 98.4%, but if you added all the neutrals to that it would drag it down even further. And have a read of them, dodgy as. Why would anyone buy from them.

Neutrals do not affect the percentage.

Have a read of the neutrals & negatives... many are for spurious reasons.

I don't know why anyone would buy from them... I am not privy to the motives of buyers.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

sugar249 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:46:12 GMT

@repentatleisure1952 wrote:
@sugar249 wrote:
@repentatleisure1952 wrote:
@2dned wrote:
hi sry for sly reply
Item number: 305693733872
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/305693733872?var=604724413190

I have noticed the ad has changed, shows a post price and different purchase price now.

Thank you.

However it would be a hard pass from me.
China based seller with not so stellar feedback... not too bad but not great.
.
Not to bad!!!!!! Really!!! 98.4%, but if you added all the neutrals to that it would drag it down even further. And have a read of them, dodgy as. Why would anyone buy from them.

Neutrals do not affect the percentage.
Have a read of the neutrals & negatives... many are for spurious reasons.
I don't know why anyone would buy from them... I am not privy to the motives of buyers.

Yeah I know neutrals dont impact the percentage, thats why I suggested to add the neutrals to the negs and you get even a worse picture. Yes one or 2 spurious, but still in the gutter.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

repentatleisure1952 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:02:05 GMT

Please read the first line of my reply to the OP.

I respect your right to your opinion.

Please allow me to voice mine.

Had I stopped at not so stellar feedback would you still have engaged in the picking of nits?

Do you have any suggestions to assist the OP?

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

domino-710 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:07:01 GMT

Further - not sure why anyone would want to buy a chair from China - go local and put your bum on it this afternoon. 🤣

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

countessalmirena — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:29:30 GMT

Some Chinese clips would hold my hair

But all was bald - attack of Nair?

I sat my tush upon a chair

from China - but no seat was there.

My coccyx ached; I’d fallen flat

No cushy tush and that was that.

The moral of this little ditty —

Cheap tat is just an awful pity.

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

sugar249 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:35:15 GMT

@repentatleisure1952 wrote:

Do you have any suggestions to assist the OP?

Best advise to OP is to stop buying from sellers with feedback in the gutter, and ignore those that say to quote ''not to bad''

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

repentatleisure1952 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:28:55 GMT

@sugar249 wrote:
@repentatleisure1952 wrote:

Do you have any suggestions to assist the OP?
Best advise to OP is to stop buying from sellers with feedback in the gutter, and ignore those that say to quote ''not to bad''

Close but no cigar... I don't recall saying "not to bad".

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

*casey* — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:15:34 GMT

"the ad show Free Postage but when i go to the checkout i have $30 delivery charge?

It is not only 1 but most i tried. This is false advertising which i see on most item i purchase now"

I'm just generalising but on the listing page, if you go to Postage > See Details

and enter your Postcode > Get Rates, you'll see that the postage cost changes with different postcodes.

Some will see it as free postage and other postcodes will have a charge

Re: Free Postage but $30 fee?

springyzone — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:32:45 GMT

I can understand why 2dned bought from the seller.

This seller has the little bit about being one of ebay's most reputable sellers attached to his feedback file.

He is an ebay rated top seller.

The new ad, as I saw it, lists the chair at $79.99 with free delivery or free pick up from Moorabbin.

I don't know where 2dned lives but for me, if I were to purchase such a thing, I could be sitting on that chair same day, as Moorabbin isn't far from here. So it certainly reads as local stock.

Also, I noticed an interesting thing.

If you look at the ad and click on feedback score, it takes you to feedback for that item. There seem to be 6. Most are positive and one of the negs says this: It really is a great chair and very good for my back, Thank you.

The other neg says it has not arrived.

To see the full range of feedback or get back to what i consider the normal feedback profile page takes a few clicks.

This is ebay's doing, it is trying to 'refine' the experience. I'd say many newbies may not even know they can go much further. Even clicking all feedback does not take you there, exactly.

2dned, if you are finding you are having trouble with all the ads of this kind, maybe consider buying from a store. By the time you add on $30 postage, you could probably get a good buy locally at not too much more.