I'm the seller who originally posted thisquestion and I'm STAGGERED that you've commented about the postage rates when Ebay says that you're based in the UK & clearly have NO IDEA where the CD's were posted to. For your information, they were posted from Australia to Poland, airmail only (as the buyer refused to pay the full extra cost of registration) ...which for anything up to 500g is Au$26.20 alone, without handling fees etc ( & that's the COST price to me). The is NO registered letter rate for a record or CD from Australia to anywhere on earth...if you want it registered...it's at the parcel rate....no choice.
Since all of this hassle, it's occurred to me that the buyer is just a scam artist, who refuses to pay for full registration because if he DOES....then I"M protected. He doesn't want that ! NOT paying registration protects HIM from having to pay for the item.
In a previous sale where an LP I sold was returned to me (via seamail after 6 weeks) as "address unknown"...the buyer received a full refund & was prevented from leaving feedback by Ebay...maybe under instructions from Paypal?...Just like when I'm not allowed to leave feedback on postage when it's "free"...so why is this scammer allowed to leave negative feedback when he hasn't paid a cent.
To thos who say that the buyer still had a negative experience...try being the seller, whose lost money on n the postage AND lost his CD's as well....
Yes, I've blocked him now...and I've also blocked a buyer from Canada who complained that Australia's postal rates are too high.....though acknowledging that it;s out of my cobtro...**bleep**?....giving me
I overheard someone talking at the Post Office ages ago & he was saying that everything is FREE on Ebay..."just don't ever pay for registration"..because, as I now know, the SELLER is then protected.....& a scammer doesn't want that !
Here's a close to "apple-to-apples" analogy.
Lets say you buy a car and want it transported to you, because you live a long way from the seller. You can take the cheap option of NOT insuring the car against theft or damage....or you can pay a whole lot more for insurance to safeguard your precious car. NOW...you choose the cheap but "risky" option to not insure the car in transit...& guess what?...the car goes missing!
Where...oh where...on planet earth will the seller (having had his valuable car vanish, supposedly)...be forced to give back ALL the money paid for the car AND refund all the transport costs as well? So...the seller's lost his car AND is out of pocket for the transport costs too....ludicrous...
Also, my seller rating was (650+) 100% before this one and only EVER negative feedback...I think my mistake was not letting a proper Paypal claim be made & concluded, so it might stop him from leaving negative feedback...
How about this comment from a Canadian buyer who complained about the high (registered) postage cost from Australia to Canada.....
"I am a good buyers, I pay the fastest I can and I have the right to say that shipping is to high even if I can not do anything about it. I don't have better protection then you do. I am as honest as you are and when I wrote my feedback, I wrote in honesty with the info I had avaible......you have a good collection but I don't mind to purchase from the rest of the planet if I accept the price of shipping. Thanks for the insight on how your area works it will be usefull but still out of reach.
.....He also told me that the high Australian postage costs "kills sales"..then I explained to him that I'd rather not sell something than the buyer get it for free, with ME paying the postage costs too.....after he gave me neutral feedback....which he has since removed after I explained about the reasons for me needing registration....
