dealing with sellers who overcharge for shipping.
TREW
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just got finished discussing with a seller his shipping fees.. 7.50$ for 2lps sent using media mail. this is his explanation when asked why he charges $5 over the actual costs:"The extra costs go towards paypal fees, ebay fees and mailers *(which are $1 each from bags unlimited)"even considering that, he's maybe hitting 2$ in costs. wtf??!as sellers, we eat the paypal & ebay fees, and chalk it up to the cost of doing business. but passing your operating expenses onto the buyer and disguising it as 'handling' is nagl imo... thoughts? how do you strut sellers handle b.i.?
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Take that schitt to bapt's PM inbox!
If it's not - you know - $4/5 over, then you basically have to eat the $ - especially if the seller is this loon.
And who is the lucky seller?
simple, just don't deal with them! brasilian dealers kill me with bs rates. and of course the terrible over graded records that come in a haggard box. will a Real brasilian dealer step up? i have money for that shit, but i'm not spending 1/2 on bogus shipping.
In seriousness, you could direct him to those portions of the agreements he entered into with both eBay and PayPal that forbid him from passing along PayPal fees to buyers:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-surcharges.html
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_payments-outside
(4.6: "No Surcharges")
no they were listed, but i was curious how he was going to explain the padded costs...
so what's the deal with 'treasures in florida'?
Linky-dinky. Oh, the feedback that awaits you!
The evidence of Dolnaldo continues to mount.
nice one. just fired off another email to dude. we'll see how he responds..
I believe he's just affecting the style, as Dolo
is very much in vogue at the moment.
I had heard he was going to be very hot this season.
guy is back tracking and rationalizing like mad now, telling me i should be thankful that he didn't charge 10.50 for media mail for 2LPs..
Definitely hit him with negative feedback. That shit is mega bullshit. $10 for media?
GTFOOHWTBS!
yep, it's on now. he decided to leave unpaid item strikes to boot. what gets me is that his defense thru all this is that the shipping costs were clearly stated in the listing. you can 'clearly state' all you want but that doesn't cover your ass if you're violating ebay/paypal policy...
Report him to Ebay...
you should've fired it to paypal. they'll refund your money if you have an email from the seller stating that they're charging you. MAKE SURE YOU STILL HAVE THE BOX IT WAS SENT IN SO YOU CAN PROVE HOW MUCH THE ACTUAL COSTS ARE.
Yeah ... if he explicitly stated that the extra $$ goes towards ebay fees in an email to you, then you have all the evidence you need to demonstrate that he was willingly violating ebay policies.
DUDE!!!! You know what time it is...
Time to hit the thrift shop with that extra...
GRIPP AND FLIPP.
Me:
Him:
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What a fellow.