I've asked sellers,  before buying,  about excessive postage.

Only to have them be aggressive, and tell me if I don't like it

don't buy it.

 

Out of principle I haven't bought,  but I was really mad!

Obviously you should know that you are being overcharged with postage cost it's got nothing to do with a crystal ball.

$14.90 postage,what are you expecting it to arrive in?

I know that OP is an experienced ebayer and her husband may not be as experienced and therefor should have asked OP first,but this is still just a simple mistake as to not knowing postage pricing so therefor the seller shouldn't be punished for it.

Like I said and it's just MO contact the seller and try to resolve it and don't waste your life chasing postage pirates as the first postage pirate is the post itself.

Gee, with nearly 1,500 feedback as a buyer (and that doesn't include sellers who didn't leave it) and 574 transactions as a seller, who would ever think to contact the seller? I kind of got the impression that was what this message was about, contacting the seller, or didn't you read the original post?

 

Buyer getting aggressive? Give me a break. If I was going to be aggressive, I would have just gone ahead with a red dot and trashed his stars without bothering to contact the seller at all, let alone come here for advice on the best way to communicate with him.

 

I have no idea what ad on TV you are referring to......lol (the little lol at the end makes everything OK).

classicedge 01 - Are you a postage pirate ????  As previously mentioned, buyers dont know the weight of an item or how it is packed until it arrives. Sellers should be making enough profit from the items that they sell that they shouldnt need to "rip off" their customers using unscrupulous means such as postage gouging. Sellers that do this contribute to the break down in standards of honesty and integrity that ebay needs to function properly. Excessive postage charges damage ALL HONEST sellers as witnessed by the 10 % FVF that ebay introduced to prevent these sorts of scams. Buyers become more un-trusting of all sellers when a few chose to engage in postage piracy. This damages everyones sales and leads to more of the argumentative type buyers you mention, making ebay a much less pleasant enviroment to work in.

If it's listed at $14.90 postage, I expect it to weigh somewhere between 501g and 3kg and arrive in a 3kg satchel. Don't you?

The fact that you seem to think it's perfectly OK to overcharge on postage tell me a hell of a lot about you as a seller, too.

That's is right and it's because ebay allow them to do and say that in the first place.

With all the money ebay has you would think that they could come up with a system that when a seller goes and inputs their postage cost a sorry your postage cost is invalid meaning too high please enter the correct amount thank you haha.

Check my sales out no I'm not and thanks for asking

I never said that it's ok too over charge on postage now did I?

 

Well the crystal ball is out isn't it?

What the hell does it tell you what I am as a seller?

Just checked your completed listings and there's very little consistency in your postage prices, particularly with the painting you listed one day with pick-up only, then with $150 postage the next. What's that all about?