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[sprinklespowerpuff]

Hi, just now came across this little beauty from a US seller if anyone would care to have a look. It has to be a typo surely!  "Vintage 1976 Beswick Beatrix Potter Mrs Rabbit and Bunnies Figurine w/box".   What's going on here? 

[cathy1971]

Obviously doesn't want to send overseas so has put ridiculous postage charge. Why didn't they just put no international shipping. Shipping within USA is only $6.95 so is a proper listing.

[chezzy]

Maybe that covers the airfare so they can personally deliver it! Note they will also combine purchases for postage savings!

[annies_fancy_dress]

postage says $43.25 USD, which sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Have I missd the joke????

[tuffy42tuffy]

I've always found that it's more appropriate to contact the seller and alert them to what was an obvious typo rather than ridicule them. Seller has been notified and an adjustment made.

[ejholden1963]

+1

She said she was stunned & glad it wasn't T&S contacting her ...... 

[chezzy]

We didn't know that it is an obvious typo, I have come across numerous listings on ebay where the postage is over the top.

I have heard different reasons for this: such as the seller wants to discourage overseas bidders OR the listing is for an item not in stock but seller wants to leave listing there/not lose their status or some such thing. Am relieved to learn this time it was an honest mistake!

[2106greencat]

Usually the seller inflates the buy price, not the postage, but yes it can happen that way.

Poor seller, maybe now there will be a little more interest in the item.

[sprinklespowerpuff]

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@tuffy42tuffy wrote:

I've always found that it's more appropriate to contact the seller and alert them to what was an obvious typo rather than ridicule them. Seller has been notified and an adjustment made.

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Spoilsport, LOL.  Should have let more people see it the way it was. (Tongue firmly in cheek).  Seller had more attention.

[ejholden1963]

chuckle, chuckle ....  

[lyndal1838]

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@tuffy42tuffy wrote:

I've always found that it's more appropriate to contact the seller and alert them to what was an obvious typo rather than ridicule them. Seller has been notified and an adjustment made.

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I could not agree more Tuffy.

I contacted the seller within an hour of this thread being posted.

It was a definite mistake with the decimal point after adding a small handling fee onto the postage....the seller does post to Australia regularly and does not use the GSP.

If anyone had bothered to look at the rest of the listings they would have seen that this was the only listing with ridiculous postage.  Why would the seller be trying to discourage posting overseas on one item, not on all of them?