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@emalith wrote:

. Now when my delivery is here he and you all get what is coming and it is more than deserved that is what it is designed to do, express how you feel about the transaction, well after coming here It made up my mind first time I will leave them and cant wait 

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Gosh... You got what you wanted from the seller but can't wait to leave your first negatives for them at least partly out of spite for the respondants in a forum thread? Interesting. Don't be surprised if the negs aren't permanent.

Personally, I think you've completely misunderstood the main focus of what most people have been saying.

There is not one person - buyer or seller, and including the posters who have commented here - that I have ever seen support or defend what is most commonly known as postage piracy. You're the buyer in this scenario, and it's neither helpful nor practical to join in your outrage and load hate on a seller - there's nothing to report them for as you agreed to each purchase and ebay will not do anything about it. When sellers come here with excessive postage charges on their listings, they don't exactly get the thumbs up from posters - quite the opposite.

No one has actually outright defended the seller, they have just tried to point out to you that unless you get a firm quote for combined postage prior to purchase, you are entering into a transaction blind and agreeing to each individual contract (which in turn means - unless stated otherwise - $4 postage per item).

It doesn't matter if 90% of sellers meet your assumptions / expectations. If you have no idea (either from the listing or direct message) whether or not a seller will meet your expectations, assumptions are the worst things to make about how the transaction "should" proceed, because there are two parties to a transaction and they both have the right and the facilities to make decisions about it. If you don't have all the information you need to make a good purchase decision, it's actually really darn good advice to get that information before you commit to a purchase. If there is not enough time to get that information, you also then need to acknowledge you're taking the risk of forming a contract with a seller whose decisions you might not like. 

Fair enough if you don't agree with a decision, it happens, but the main point everyone is trying to make to you is that it's much better for you to find out what kind of decisions a seller is going to make before you buy from them - I don't understand why you've taken such offence to that advice, it's common sense, and that kind of advice is designed to prevent you from dealing with sellers whose practices you don't like before it's too late... And it's given in these kinds of threads because it's already too late for the trasaction you're talking about.