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Last Sunday I had a successful? bid on ebay the article was $35 when I emailed for post and handling charges the reply was $20 this I feel is an outages charge for local post IMO .Question is if I don't go ahead with the sale what consequences may or will be evoked on myself.? LOZ

they could file a non paying bidder report - one of the reasons why a seller will file this is to try and recover the costs that they must pay to ebay on a sale. on review of this report you may incur a strike against your account. they could possibly also leave negative feedback. have you tried negotiating with them? most ebayers (at least the ones that both buy and sell on there) are pretty reasonable about it - they've experience excessive postage before and don't particularly want to inflict it on someone else etc.
You might find these links useful -
Unpaid Item Policy - http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/unpaid-item.html
Appealing Unpaid Item Strikes and Suspensions - http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/tp/appeal-upi.html

Good luck!

Damn .Thats nasty . I always check the postage cost first up . If its not listed email them to find out . There are some dead set gangsters out there . If they wont negotiate the postage you'll probably have to go through and pay it other wise risk getting the dreaded red mark on your feedback which is a fate worse than death .

drifter wrote:Damn .Thats nasty . I always check the postage cost first up . If its not listed email them to find out . There are some dead set gangsters out there .

I agreed with you to check the postage first prior to bid or BIN

If they wont negotiate the postage you'll probably have to go through and pay it other wise risk getting the dreaded red mark on your feedback which is a fate worse than death .

I'm not too worry about the second much.
Though, people can do many ways to survive this.

And I'm a long time member of Anti-eBay Group.

Loz

High postage is not uncommon on EBay items and is usually disclosed in the listing. If it is then you'll certainly get a strike & negative feedback if you don't buy (as with all auctions it's buyer beware ).

I've seen items you could post for $5 with a $50 postage amount. It's a sellers way of getting a low opening price and paying less percentage to eBay.

I can top that.

I'm always in the market for a violin and I saw a guy on eBay selling an electric violin for around 1 buck with something like 600 bucks shipping.

Yeah. Go that postal system.

Well depending on where you live, where they live, how big or how heavy the item is and the freight service the $20 postage may be correct. Not likely though.

I sell alot of things on ebay and always charge an extra couple of $ for handling fees (as always stated in my ad's). This goes towards packaging materials, cost of the ad, my time and petrol to get to the post office and back etc. Nine times out of ten i still end up out of pocket though.

As others have said there is a trend on ebay atm, offer a buy it now price of $0.99 and charge $100's for shipping! This REALLY annoys me and does nothing but waste everyones time.

Excessive postage and handling policy - http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/ ... pping.html

Always check the feedback notices of the seller. If they have been previously or constantly over zealous in their postage and handling charges, comments are usually made there by other buyers.
There are some notorious local ebayers who put their address down as in regional towns where in fact they are actually based in the cities and this " excess " P&H ups their margin, particularly on low cost items.

Real postage costs of below 2 - 3 dollars is common where seller charges are actually put down as up to $ 20.00 plus insurance.

Check to make sure your item has had the insurance paid - if relevent.

If you feel that the postage is excessive you can still make a positive buyer feedback mark however make comment on this over zealousness postage in the text.

Other buyers will read this and be more wary

The statement no local pickup is sometimes a sign that P& H looks like part of the margin.

I think the lesson here for all of us (and something I've learned over time) is to always check the postage price. My wife purchased a DVD in the UK a while back and we faced the same issue, postage of nearly double the cost of the DVD. We paid, but we're more careful now.

Rob

I agree that with EBAY stuff, you must be totally clear on the details before bidding. I won a bid on a series of antique books from a UK seller to the value of $30.00AUS. When she went to post it, UK POst wanted $114.00 AUS to send it SEAMAIL!!
As the books were worth much more than that, being 1st erditions, I went ahead, but you do have to know what you are getting in for.
Col