Adding extra charges

[manilamanilamanila]

How can this guy http://www.ebay.com.au/usr/osherg continually add extra charges and then keep selling?

People have left negative feedback for him but he is essentially scamming $5.00 off every customer by adding charges after they have committted to buy but before the check out.

[harley_babes_hoard]

there is nothing wrong with saying buyer has to choose express or insured post using paypal.

please show me the policy that states this is not allowed because I can't find it.

[phorum_junkie*]

Harley it comes, I think, under the clause about discouraging the use of Paypal.  I matters not about the actual wording or what policy it comes under ebay have said it is not allowed. Ebay also clearly state that if registration or insurance is required  then the seller can only charge the actual cost of that service unless it is included in the total postage amount. I would be pretty amazed if there were a courier company that charged a round five bucks for the equivalent of registration and insurance and AP certainly don't have any service that costs that.

It is also against Paypal's own terms to charge buyers extra for using Paypal.

Anyway as I said before I don't imagine why anyone would buy from them even if they gave a five dollar discount never mind a surcharge.

[harley_babes_hoard]

Yes it will most likely be his undoing but as I said I can't see it written in any policy I have looked at.

[digital*ghost]

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:
Yes it will most likely be his undoing but as I said I can't see it written in any policy I have looked at.

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Depends on whether the policy is interpreted one way or another, both by members and eBay (by which I mean, reps are relatively notorious for interpreting and applying the same policy in different ways).

It's certainly debateable, but also very feasible that making only PayPal users pay extra for registered post is "discouraging the use of PayPal", which is against policy.