@sjchaps wrote:
Post 30 in this thread, are you suggesting your comment was not directed at me?
Even though you guys may have seen many buyers complaining about delivery charges it appeared to me many of you came at me totally from the view point of sellers. There appeared to be no assumption I might be right, he's just another buyer winging about postage. Very much a seller perspective I think.
I did not expect that, I actually expected someone would possibly direct me to eBay rules where I could read for my self or even a suggestion I might take it up with eBay because it didn't sound right.
Instead I got a bunch of reasons the seller was not in the wrong, maybe very well be the case but ignoring other possibilities is in my opinion is not very helpful.
Not understanding why the perspectives were so clearly in favor of sellers I went back through similar negative threads about delivery charges within the archives specifically looking for very large delivery charges to compare to the situation at hand and was disappointed to find I was definitely not the only one to receive a distinctly seller's prospective in return to their comments on this subject. Do you need links?
Naturally I understand why individuals who have expertise in a given area would be called upon to add their comments but to me they were biased toward sellers positions from the get go and few if any were interested in the possibility this practice might be a underhanded.
Even eBay showed more interest in the goings on at this site than any of you guys that's not to say they will investigate or do anything, who knows.
My feeling is I was quickly identified as a disgruntled buyer, not the case, I was trying to research a possible scam for the benefit of others.
Steve c
The goal was to pass along the information as to;
A) why a seller may do something like that and
B) the fact that while deplorable, not against any rules - or laws for that matter. Quite the opposite in fact, an air conditioning repairman has the legal right to charge any ammount he or she likes according to Australian law at least. I know this because I once had one try to charge me $325 just to do a quote!
So, a bunch of sellers, passing along information to a buyer it what has happened. However, I get the impression that this has given you the impression that we are sticking together like some sort of sellers club or whatever. To clear that up, if a seller came on here asking for advice about whether to inflate their shipping chrages astronomically high. I think that most would advise to not do it as it is bad customer relations.
Also, I know of at least two people who have made several responses to you who are not actually sellers, just a very smart people who happens to like the ebay community for some reason.
Inflating the price of the postage is not illegal or against any ebay rules. However, it's not a very nice thing to do, and I personally wont do business with them. I asked the air con guy to leave and fixed it myself.
As for this particular seller that brought you here in the first place, I actually think we are reading to much into this. It seems like the seller either cant figure out how to use postage policies properly or can't be bothered fixing them. They may not even be perceiving it as a problem because when someone queries an item the seller quotes the proper charge.
When you change the country for that fuse, it doesn't give a price, it tells you to contact seller for a price. I don't think they are intentionally raising prices for any reason other than in error, like the fuse, or that is what it costs like the speakers.
The seller has some speakers that he charges hundreds to ship, but I sell similar speakers at my day job, and I know they would probably actually cost hundreds to ship. If I listed them, I would make them available to ship overseas, but wouldn't expect anyone to actualy buy them. My aim would be to sell them in my country and if someone overseas was desparate enough, or Blasรฉ enough about money to buy them anyway, I would be surprised, but I'd still ship them.
