topic Re: excessive postage charges in Buying

excessive postage charges

gunnaparty2 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:14:50 GMT

I am starting to notice a fair few companies are charging way over the top postage lately.One of these places wants $200 to post a 20kg item from Brisbane to Adelaide.I can get a pinball machine weighing 80+kg's posted for that price which is also 3 to 4 times the volume.How do these ppl justify such extreme postge,in fact I can get the same item from the US for less postage and until now the US has always been the most expensive of anywhere.I guess some stores just don't want to sell there items,or are looking for a sucker

Re: excessive postage charges

bsal6160 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:24:54 GMT

as buyer i would consider $200 postage for a 20Kg item a fair price. just how do you think the item is going to get from brisbane to adelaide? if as you say you could get the same weight item delivered from the US for cheaper, I am sure there are a lot of sellers out there who would love to know how...

Re: excessive postage charges

gunnaparty2 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:47:53 GMT

Err the postage from the US for the exact same items is $156.64 from one place and $202.04 from another,and by the way my pinball machine was $180.00 and I had to use a tailgate loader to get it here as it comes in over 80kg.The tailgate loader was $75 extra so it would have only cost $105 dollars otherwise,so how do you figger $200 is a fair price for 20kg

Re: excessive postage charges

thecatspjs — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:49:27 GMT

@bsal6160 wrote:
as buyer i would consider $200 postage for a 20Kg item a fair price. just how do you think the item is going to get from brisbane to adelaide? if as you say you could get the same weight item delivered from the US for cheaper, I am sure there are a lot of sellers out there who would love to know how...

You are kidding ... aren't you ?

Re: excessive postage charges

bsal6160 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:04:30 GMT

think about this, brisbane to adelaide via road. how much would it cost you in fuel to drive that far? well in excessive of $200 i would say. now put the same item on a plane. excess baggage can be anywhere in the region of $10-15 per kg. just saying i would say the postage was a fair amount in my opinion as a buyer only. i think a lot of people dont realise just how heavy 20kg really is. 10 packets of sugar, 20 liters of milk, two car wheels complete with tyres,......

Re: excessive postage charges

thecatspjs — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:13:23 GMT

Its interesting that you mentioned types I recently sent by courier (first time I used this particular company four rims and tyres with insurance from Melbourne to Queensland for less than $100.

If it is an item that will fit in an AP ebay box - you can send up to 15kg for under $20.

Re: excessive postage charges

bsal6160 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:17:31 GMT

Ok I stand corrected, now i see 200 was excessive, will keep it in mind.

Re: excessive postage charges

cq_tech — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:03:08 GMT

@thecatspjs wrote:
Its interesting that you mentioned types I recently sent by courier (first time I used this particular company four rims and tyres with insurance from Melbourne to Queensland for less than $100.

If it is an item that will fit in an AP ebay box - you can send up to 15kg for under $20.

Yes, but that's only if the sender and recipient live within (I think) 75km of each other (not sure about the precise distance).

Re: excessive postage charges

cq_tech — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:15:25 GMT

I was still curious about the different postal charges so did a quick calculation on a parcel of the maximum cubed size and maximum permitted weight of 22kg from my home to a suburb about 50km away, and regardless of the parcel's size, the cost remained at just $12.35.

However, that same parcel sent to Perth would cost a staggering $722.15 (and that's without any extras).

Re: excessive postage charges

falconsportspack — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:55:53 GMT

I just did the same calculation as CQ for the same sized & weighted parcel going from my place in North West Vic to Newcastle. That's a little over 1/2 the distance from Brisbane to Adelaide.

The cost was $192.20.

Re: excessive postage charges

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:56:35 GMT

You don't say what the dimensions are, if it is over the maximum for AP it will have to go by courier and to use a fully on line trackable delivery service is expensive. You don't say how far your pinball machine was travelling and you don't say what kind of tracking and insurance you had.

Bottom line is as long as the seller is up front about the delivery cost it is up to you if you buy or not.

Re: excessive postage charges

springyzone — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:09:45 GMT

I don't know if it is excessive or not.

I do know that about 9 years ago, my sister and I sold a desk on ebay. It was an artist's type desk which could be folded down and was sold as pick up only, but you guessed it, someone interstate bought it.

Then she asked us to arrange a courier. My sister rang around and got quotes and the cheapest she could find locally was one where you took it over to the centre, packed it yourself and handed it to them, and that cost about $120 back then. The buyer was shocked and then did her own search (pity she hadn't done it prior to bidding)

There was another one which the buyer then wanted us to use as it was only about $90, but it was a good 2 hour round trip to get there and my sister refused. The lady wasn't happy, sent us an email later to say the desk wasn't worth all the expense she had had to pay out, which is probably true as the desk only cost $70.

But I am not sure it was our fault.

Re: excessive postage charges

gunnaparty2 — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:13:58 GMT

Strange how you got a price of over $700.00,my wife has ordered 320 7" records from Yanchep in W.A. the distance is 2,743km and the postage cost is $48.00.

Re: excessive postage charges

cq_tech — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:13:37 GMT

I bet they don't weigh 22kg though (the maximum weight acceptable by AP).

The prices quoted came from AP's on-line postage calculator and are accurate. Check them yourself.

If you look again, you'll see that I was making a comparison on the price difference between the same 22kg parcel sent locally (within 75km), and to WA which is about as far as it can go on mainland Australia.

Re: excessive postage charges

cq_tech — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:18:55 GMT

@phorum_junkie* wrote:
You don't say what the dimensions are, if it is over the maximum for AP it will have to go by courier and to use a fully on line trackable delivery service is expensive. You don't say how far your pinball machine was travelling and you don't say what kind of tracking and insurance you had.

Bottom line is as long as the seller is up front about the delivery cost it is up to you if you buy or not.

For my hypothetical comparison I used the maximum allowable weight of 22kg and the same acceptable dimensions of 100cm x 50cm x 20cm but altering those dimensions seems to have made no difference when it came to cubing, as the postage prices to both locations remained the same.

Re: excessive postage charges

ytwo000 — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:56:34 GMT

simple solution:..if you dont like the post price or think its tooooo much,quite simply "dont buy"..you do have an option.