on โ28-10-2013 07:41 PM
โ30-10-2013 06:50 PM - edited โ30-10-2013 06:51 PM
Unfortunately I don't always make a profit. I paid too much for some items. Before I was quite as experienced as I am now.
But my profit is really determined by others. I sell in a crowded market and need to be ballpark.
on โ30-10-2013 06:53 PM
I'm off to change all my listings to include free postage then
โ30-10-2013 06:54 PM - edited โ30-10-2013 06:56 PM
Why not? You got the item you bought, at the price you were prepared to pay, in advertised condition.
Are you aware that there are many postal services that don't appear on the stamps/postage label? In Australia, for example, SOD/Registered, insurance? Plus the fact that the seller is justified in adding a charge for their time, their packaging materials in preparing an item for postage.
Or is that their gift to you? After you've agreed to the overall price, and recieved the item in GOC, how does the actual amount of visible postage, bearing in mind my above points, have any bearing on the transaction? Except that you feel you can trash a seller's business standing on a whim?
THE TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS IS BEFORE PURCHASE. AND BUYER REMORSE IS NOT A VALID REASON TO LEAVE ADVERSE FEEDBACK
Huh? What buyer's remorse?????
I have no quarrel with sellers charging extra for their time, petrol or whatever and I have no quarrel with them recycling old packaging, but I do object when a parcel is badly wrapped with inadequate protection - including no padding if needed - regarding my purchases.
I haven't trashed any seller's business. If it's been trashed they've done it to themselves.
Sorry, but just because I have bought an item at a price I was willing to pay including postage, that does not imply I am also happy for the seller to increase their profit maringe while playing Russian Roulette on whether I will get my item in one piece.
As for asking questions...hmm. I could ask the seller about packaging but I've asked that twice before concerning posting odd shaped items....and got no replies. Still, I suppose I could ask if the amount they quoted might mean they intend to use the flimsiest packaging possible while pocketing more money than the extra cost of travel, petrol etc can justify....but I'm guessing I might not get much of a response there either.
on โ30-10-2013 06:56 PM
What you need to realise dave is that there are many sellers that udercut the prices just to make a sale and that is one thing that I am not willing to do so if my item doesn't sell then I will relist and relist until one day it does sell,fingers xd
on โ30-10-2013 06:59 PM
@davewil1964 wrote:Unfortunately I don't always make a profit. I paid too much for some items. Before I was quite as experienced as I am now.
But my profit is really determined by others. I sell in a crowded market and need to be ballpark.
Well, there's always one or two that have to be exceptional.
My point doesn't have to be applied on an individual sale-by-sale basis, though. ๐
on โ30-10-2013 10:50 PM
I AGREE WITH YOU.I ALWAYS TRY TO BE FAIR WITH POSTAGE I POST TWICE A WEEK AS I ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING UP TOWN
on โ31-10-2013 08:42 AM
on โ31-10-2013 09:11 AM
I was just being a little bit sarcastic
on โ31-10-2013 10:24 AM
I am very glad to hear that....I always wonder what is being hidden when seemingly good sellers suddenly offer Free Postage.
I usually purchase multiple items from sellers and always feel a bit ripped off when there are no combined postage discounts available.
on โ02-11-2013 03:59 PM
I do this as well,I hope to find sellers with free postage(i'm sure any normal business person would add into the cost anyhow-"its called the cost of business").
Inflated postage and NOT useing the services paid for is the worse thing about eBay in my opinion.Once a seller does this to me,i never use them again and let people know on the forums i'm on(as we have boards for this)that a seller is inflting P & H costs.
Most good buyers dont mind sellers adding into the cost of the shipping box(its callled P&H) ,time and gas to but sometimes in my experience i have found sellers asking for "double" of real postage costs.
If there is something i really want,i msg the seller and ask them why it is so high? Considering i have every postage service in the world at my finget tips.
People just need to use their heads,and if they feel they get ripped,give them NEG.I dont muck around with sellers anymore in the area i buy in.