on 04-10-2012 12:50 PM
on 02-11-2015 07:03 PM
Why do you need to know? You have presumably received the item that you ordered at the price that you wanted to pay.
How or why the seller sold and posted for that amount is surely up to them.
It could have been a loss leader where the seller hoped that you may buy other items from him.
on 03-11-2015 05:12 PM
on 03-11-2015 05:32 PM
@heihachi_73 wrote:
And unlike Australia Post which takes every single day off when possible and runs the bare minimum hours to be legally defined as a business day, trains actually run on weekends and public holidays. In fact even buses do, and in Melbourne no-one ever catches a bus because it's usually an hour to the next because the timetables were seemingly last updated in around 1945!
Are you suggesting that the AP contractors and couriers who work 14 hours a day are working the bare minimum hours to be called a business?
And AP contractors do work on Saturdays. If the customer is prepared to pay a premium AP couriers will even work weekends and holidays but most customers are not willing to pay for that service.
on 05-11-2015 10:02 AM
on 05-11-2015 12:50 PM
Soz, my post above was in reply to you, not Syd stock 😄
on 05-11-2015 06:32 PM
on 05-11-2015 08:02 PM
My local PO is open from 6.45am to 6pm weekdays and 7-11am Saturdays. I work full time and have no problems getting there during their opening hours. Do you expect PO's to be open 24 hours? If you do, why don't you open a PO and operate it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What's that? You need sleep and time at home? Don't they deserve that luxury too? If Aust Post bother you that much, you can always use a different option. There are plenty around. No guarantee they'll be reliable though.
on 06-11-2015 08:36 AM
on 06-11-2015 11:04 AM
It's actually my LPO that has the extended trading hours. The main PO is 9-5.....although I did notice recently they are now open Saturday mornings from around 9 to 1 I think. They have skeleton staff on, so you still have to wait an hour to be searved. My LPO saw a market in the extended trading hours, catering to the miners and other shift workers. It has most certainly paid off for them. Their busiest times are first thing in the morning and last thing of a night.
What I like even more about them compared to the main one is, they have a collection at 5pm, then they come back at 6.10pm to do a second collection. So that means, even if you post at 5.45pm, your parcel is still going out that day. They don't advertise that, I overheard them telling someone. Takes the pressure off in the afternoon if I have a lot of things to package thinking I had to get them there by 5.
I think the difference between the PO's and the supermarkets is, the supermarkets employ a lot of young people which cost much less to pay. Therefore they can stay open a lot longer due to the much lower wages.
on 07-11-2015 06:13 PM
@lyndal1838 wrote:Why do you need to know? You have presumably received the item that you ordered at the price that you wanted to pay.
How or why the seller sold and posted for that amount is surely up to them.
It could have been a loss leader where the seller hoped that you may buy other items from him.
I think the questions is 'why would we NOT want to know?' this is a seller forum and knowing how other sellers operate is important to enabling us to make a good decision on what stock we should and should not sell. It also highlights some of the pressure Ebay sellers are put under. I do not understand why you seem to have a problem with the question.