illegal postage add by seller

[sbut5366]

a jewelry seller from India, they run $0.99 auctions for their items, they advertise NO POSTAGE on some items, if you win 3 items with NO POSTAGE on any items like I have, they will issue an invoice with a $39.99 POSTAGE CHARGE included. this is ILLEGAL by Ebay bylaws, i have sent several messages to correct this FALSE INVOICE, so far nothing in reply. If they follow their usual scam, they will soon cancel the transaction and cite that "client canceled" this is their way of skirting Ebay intervention. Ebay is useless because AI does not seem to understand what a scam is. the only way these, using the term loosely, people will learn is a BOYCOT of their company. 

[countessalmirena]

Duplicate post.

OP, you only need to create one thread. (And the issue re naming and shaming remains.)

[springyzone]

As you say, totally against ebay policy.

Have you reported them or their listings?

Maybe go to chat till you get a live agent and ask them to look at the invoice message you got & point out that it was free postage. And that you have not cancelled etc

What happens if you buy only one item from that Indian seller? Same deal? they try to add postage?

I am intrigued as you say 'if they follow their usual scam, they will soon cancel the transaction' etc

Has this happened to you before, then?

Personally I would not buy from India and especially not from that seller, especially if it has happened several times before.

[sandypebbles]

And the seller's feedback was in the toilet

Another scammer seller supported because buyers don't care who they buy from

[ambercat16]

Reading through some of the seller's negative feedback, I think they list these items at .99c or something similar with free postage, then 10 hours before the end of the listing, delete bids if they aren't high enough. They state in their feedback that this is allowed by eBay. 

Their feedback implies that they seem incensed that a buyer would bid less than the item is "worth" and expect to get the item.  Maybe that is the way it is done on eBay India rather than listing at a price the seller is happy with in the first place?