excessive postage

[vwonline2002]

Bought an item today at the cost of 20c and I pretty damn sure the listing was free postage. However I am now being charged $21.84. It is a quite small and light item there is no way it is going to cost that to post even from the US. Do I have any recourse other than to suck it up, pay and leave scathing feedback??

[nevillesdaughter]

Can you tell use the item number please?

[vwonline2002]

here you are 161641552322. I just cant get how I could miss that amount of postage

[nevillesdaughter]

When I pull up the listing it shows postage as US$21.85 - were you using a smartphone or iPad as I believe there are some glitches with them?

Marina.

[twyngwyn]

showing as $21.84....I'm in Adelaide

[bakeandfry]

I ran item number on mobile web and the app postage comes up at us$21.85. And it being done by gps.

[i-love-my-sheep]

The postage cost is so high due to the seller using the Global Shipping Program. It always costs far more than sending First Class Internation via USPS. Expect it to take quite awhile to arrive too, they are not known for their speed.

Edited to add: you can't leave scathing feedback about costs or speed relating to the Global Shipping Program. EBay will remove it.

[chezzy]

I am looking at the seller's listings on the ebay.com (not au) site and there is one item that says Free Shipping (nothing at all about GSP) and says ships to United States....maybe seller has a mixture of GSP and non-GSP listings. The listing the OP refers to definitely has the GSP and an amount of US $21.84 to Australia.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I was actually just about to leave a reply saying that the $21.84 postage cost was in US$, so glad you mentioned it. At the moment, that is approximately $27.75AU (according to the conversion on the phone app).

I could only see 2 listings on eBay AU and both of those are posted using GSP. There was a third on the eBay US that didn't post to Australia. Given they are coupons, it would be pointless offering international postage on those ones.

[chezzy]

If I change the country to United States it says $3.99 NOT free

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