eBay Feedback and DP users

[c0ldb33r]

Op don't pussy foot around.

Who screwed you over? Let's sort this out as a community.

We'll need a mod to volunteer as judge Judy.

[Cornelius]

OP should look at it this way (assuming shipping charges were stated up front): If the actual shipping were charged, he would have had to bid higher to win the item(s). You paid $X.XX total amount, which presumably you were happy with. The only looser here is eBay. Not condoning fee avoidance, but I'm not going to get worked up over it if I got a deal I was satisfied with.

[Ryaan1234]

Op don't pussy foot around.

Who screwed you over? Let's sort this out as a community.

We'll need a mod to volunteer as judge Judy.

I'm not going to spoil the "surprise" but this unknown seller has had complaints here before about his practices... (In fact a whole thread in this very forum)

I nominate Eternal Tune as our Judge Judy, btw.

[Emuaust]

OP should look at it this way (assuming shipping charges were stated up front): If the actual shipping were charged, he would have had to bid higher to win the item(s). You paid $X.XX total amount, which presumably you were happy with. The only looser here is eBay. Not condoning fee avoidance, but I'm not going to get worked up over it if I got a deal I was satisfied with.

No if anything I was tricked by my own ignorance to what the cost of postage from america was, I just have little tolerance for postage gougers.

[Kitsune Sniper]

No if anything I was tricked by my own ignorance to what the cost of postage from america was, I just have little tolerance for postage gougers.

Well, to be fair, if you're sending anything that's pretty large or weighs over four pounds, the cost of shipping anything outside of the USA is going to be insanely high.

But it should never cost $15 to send two SMS games.

[Porksta]

I have only read the first post of this thread, and this is my response to that:

If you agreed to pay the shipping charge when you bought the item, I don't think negative feedback is fair to the seller. It may be courteous to refund some of the extra he charged, but what you both committed to doesn't require that. Next time negotiate first, buy second.




I'm also moving this to the Ebay forum.

Basically this. You paid knowing full well how much he was charging you for shipping.

/thread

[brykasch]

Rule number 1, always check the shipping and handling before bidding, if its too high then don't bid. Don't expect combined shipping either, unless they specifically mention it.

[theclaw]

What the seller did might be against ebay policy if you can prove it.

Not exactly related, but IIRC a lot of overseas sellers are violating the rules on this. They're supposed to use the caluculator to set the correct price if above ebay's minimum for a category. Not say in the item description they need to charge more.

[mobiusclimber]

I fully condone leaving neutral or negative feedback and 1 stars across the board for any seller that charges three times what the shipping cost actually is, whether you "agreed" to it or not. It's time to get those assholes off Ebay, simple as that.

[Cornelius]

Well, to be fair, if you're sending anything that's pretty large or weighs over four pounds, the cost of shipping anything outside of the USA is going to be insanely high.

But it should never cost $15 to send two SMS games.

Unless they are trying to prevent an item not received claim. Then you can't use first-class and the starting cost is going to be more like $18 (for the two games). Clearly that's not what happened here, but that's always been my dilemma with intl shipping.

Which, if the buyer here really wants to be a jerk and hasn't provided proof of receipt already, is what they could do in this case.