Here's an 'interesting' Paypal experience.

[007homevideo]

I vendor in Canada recently accepted my 'best price' offer of US$300 for an item listed for US$500 'Buy It Now (or make offer)'.

The vendor sends me an invoice for the item and states shipping as US$150.

I visit the 'Canada Post' website and, using the online 'postage calculator', I find that the package should only cost approx. US$72 to ship via the method which the vendor quoted. This means that the vendor has added approx. US$78 to the shipping.

I wrote to the vendor to suggest revision of the shipping component. The vendor responded by saying that the extra amount was to cover the Ebay & Paypal fees associated with the sale of the item. I then protested and requested that the vendor cancel the transaction. The vendor refused.

In order to avoid a 'non-paying bidder' strike, I paid the invoice with a view to lodging a Paypal claim for a partial refund of the shipping component that was in excess of the ACTUAL shipping cost.

The package arrived today, in a home-made cardboard box, with a shipping label reflecting the US$72 shipping cost.

I logged into Paypal and lodged a claim for the excess amount above the ACTUAL shipping.

Within a half-hour of lodging the claim, I received notification from Paypal stating that they had completed their review of my case and were unable to decide the case in my favour - without offering further explanation of course.

Despite 'excessive shipping' being one of the issues which Paypal deem as being grounds for a claim, and despite being able to provide a scan of the shipping label (on request), my claim was adjudicated to be - in the space of a half-hour maximum - untenable.

The question at the forefront of this outcome is this: if provable application of excessive shipping is insufficient to reasonably demonstrate 'excessive shipping', what then DOES prove it?

Helpful replies are most welcome.

[padi*0409]

That's a wonderful feel-good story to start 2016 Stalks................

                                                          OUCH !!     What was that for ??????

[imastawka]

        Have another one, in case it didn't stick

[padi*0409]

Errrr, did I tell you about the item I got for under $200 that was worth $950 Stalks ??????

Mind you that was last year....................

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hahahahahaha......................must be a bloke thing I guess..........................

[ooak3]

got me good laugh for the day with this topic hehe so funny ROFL

mr ooak never touches ebay he just asks me to search if he wants anything .....thank goodness lol

Stawka thank goodness the phone purchase was ok 

[imastawka]

I'm surprised they didn't 'lose' the item, Padi     

There's a lot of that going around

[*tippy*toes*]

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@imastawka wrote:

Mr Stawka bought a brand new Samsung smartphone from a zero seller.

Won the auction - 1 bid - cheap as chips

I said "Ya did what????"

It actually turned up - as described - by road,  too

He's still gloating  

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It must be an eBay seller spouse thing. I thought maybe it was a boy thing, but as Mrs Dave seems to be the same, then it must be a seller spouse thing.

I would have gone psycho if Mr Tippy had done that! It would have been grounds for divorce..........even more so when it turned up.....as described!

He's not having his own account because then I can't keep tabs on him. He has no idea how to create one and I'm not going to show him. Besides, I'd probably eventually hijack it and use it as another selling account 😄

Padi, the norti stick was deployed, don't you worry!

[imastawka]

When I say he's still gloating, that was about a year ago

and that darned phone hasn't missed a beat

[joethenuts]

good on mr stawka

[joethenuts]

mmm  dont give mr tippy ideas  lol , you do realise if it ends up in court mr tippy could have half your ebay accounts   mmmm

[joethenuts]

i must admit some partners have no idea about how the other partner work.  for instance about 6 months ago mrs joethenuts asks if i had a litre of paint to paint the laundry,  i usally carry aprox 30,000 litres at any 1 time  mmmm