Delivery costs

[sjchaps]

Are sellers permitted to apply any delivery cost to items?

Are massive delivery cost outside the ebay guidelines or is it simply a buyer beware situation?

Steve c

[enigmabear]

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Kindly read my response to to in post 30 in context, which was in reply to your post 28 in which you said

@sjchaps wrote:

I'm a bit unsure why you think I'm suggesting sellers put prices up if low on stock, I didn't.

Thats what some people are telling me on this site and I don't agree they would do that. So surprisingly we agree on that.

As for not seeing one complaint about being charged massive delivery charges just put yourself in the position where its theorically happened to you and see if within ebay complaints system there are any aveneus to complain, I'm suggesting there is not.

Do the exercise your self, that's how I came to these conclusions.

Steve c

'Some people' (including myself) suggested one reason some sellers may do this is to avoid eBay's impact on sellers who do remove/cancel listing when they re out of stock

But you stated you don't agree sellers would do that

As for why mostly sellers respond to seller issues on the seller section of the forum, can't explain that one

As for your comment in your post 41

Even eBay showed more interest in the goings on at this site than any of you guys

Of course they did, as you have already been told, eBay staff have pre written scripts for various questions from callers

It is no more 'real' interest than when a person at a store checkout asks how a customer is or how their day is

Anyway, I am done wasting my time here

[collect247]

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@sjchaps wrote:

What exactly did I make up?

I have been educated in the fact some sellers use increased delivery prices to reduce the risk of a low stock level on an item, understood.

Its also been pointed out an outrageous price on an I-phone can be used as advertising, understood.

Where I have a different opinion is where these are viewed as the only 2 reasons a seller might use this tactic as opposed to something possibly nefarious.

Some comments suggest if you silly enough to do this its bad luck, others suggest the likelihood of someone making this mistake is extremely small and finally why would anyone not just back out of the transaction.

All good points, I'm not suggesting its smart to not check the delivered cost what I am suggesting is it is possible not to.

If you paid with Paypal and didn't check delivery costs the first time you will know you have a problem is when your statement arrives.

Everyone has been careful to not say its impossible for this to happen and I believe there's good reason for this careful word choice, it can and most likely does happen. With 180 million eBay users what are the odds?

How many of you guys actually followed the link I provided and went on to view the store and other items where similar delivery charges are employed to verify my account of the situation?

I hope some of you did and can now set me straight on why a seller would not simply double or triple the delivery charges rather than increase them 10 to 20 times as well as explaining why it would be done to roughly 5% of other items on the site.

One further point to add, a phone call to eBay this morning communicated to me and I quote " there is currently no rules against pricing items in this manner". I'm not going to comment on the what that brings to the discussion but though it relevant.

Steve c

Tell me how ebay have done more than us members?

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[*tippy*toes*]

Geez dude, go to Supercheap auto, or Repco. It's a damned fuse. No idea why you'd want to buy from the US, even if the postage was reduced to $25. Couple of bucks from SCA or Repco.

[davewil1964]

He got one for a buck.

He just wants to protect mug buyers. And we know how well that works.

[countessalmirena]

Declining to interact with a bad fuse seller = refusal.

[purplemon18]

I don't know why some people dislike puns so much, personally I think they are funny. Better than fart jokes.

[davewil1964]

It depends on the level of the pun.

If you want bad puns, read Spider Robinson's 'Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon' stories.

[digital*ghost]

I love a good pun - I screenshotted this because it made me laugh for far too long.

Context needed - the thread topic was asking how to (legally) deal with a neighbour who is a huge bully...

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