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@heihachi_73 wrote:

It looks like there's a problem with this listing.

• Attention! In general, listings with a low Buy-It-Now price but comparably high postage price can mislead buyers about the total cost of an item. Please take a moment to review your listing and lower your delivery charges to ensure only postage and handling costs are being charged. The maximum postage price you can charge for your current Buy-It-Now listing is $7.

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This is a set of two VHS videos which weigh around 700 grams and would therefore go in a 3kg satchel or a small box for somewhere between $10 and $20. There isn't the slightest chance of putting them in a 500 gram satchel, let alone the fact that even a 500g satchel costs close to $9 anyway. Not to mention this was a relist where it was previously perfectly fine to list the same items. ID 162819211607. I think Basil Fawlty really could run eBay Inc. a lot better than the robots currently in charge.

 

Is this yet another one of eBay's scams to force people to have alledegly free postage on everything? eBay management has well and truly lost the plot if they think we can send heavy items for an absolute maximum of $7. Kimmy, rocket, eBay Inc. HQ, now.

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Just out of interest, what would happen if you move the cost of the item up to, say, $5 or $6?

Is that postage cost allowable then?

It sounds as if it is the ratio of item to postage cost that has triggered the alert & the ebay system somehow assumes anything only worth $3 must be very light (which is a fallacy).

You could, as you say, list it as $13 with "free' postage, which is obviously what ebay would like, but if pricing the item a bit higher works, I would do that as I think buyer perception might improve then too.