[WWI] ot: Ebay shipping costs

[Andy Bannister]

Scott:
> 
> In which case we must agree to disagree.
> 
I agree with that. ;-)

> My feeling is that if the seller meets all their obligations 
> under the listing to leave "negative" feedback is 
> inappropriate and worthy of negative feedback right back at 
> you without being "retaliatory". 

So if you paid the current price for a gold bar and when you received it you
discovered it was actually iron pyrite you wouldn't feel ripped off?
Similarly, if someone says the shipping cost is 12 pounds and when you
receive the item you find they have deliberately mislead you and the actual
cost of postage is a fraction of what you paid you still wouldn't feel
ripped off? I certainly would. As Ernest says, I'm all for sticking it to
eBay, but their costs to the seller aren't so extortionate to warrant that
kind of profit on postage.

No one was holding a gun to 
> ANYONE'S head forcing them to buy. If you (anyone) bought at 
> the auction you did so of your own free will and did so 
> accepting the terms and conditions as-published. To come back 
> after the fact is, to me, being every bit as "dishonest" in 
> one's dealing.

You are perfectly justified to complain to the seller about the
misrepresentation of postage costs. If you are completely ignored then you
are also prefectly justified in leaving negative feedback. You're correct,
no one is being forced into buying anything, but   if the listing -
including postage - is misleading then other potential buyers need to be
made aware of it. That's what the feedback system is all about.
> 
> My choice...just don't buy from them. If someone else is 
> willing to play the game, more power to them.

Then the practice will continue. If nothing is said it will be deemed to be
an exceptable means of selling on eBay, which it isn't.
Andy