Getting a bit sick of this over charged postage.

[gogetafix]

The last few months I've been buying from ebay quite frequenty. On some small items I've bought the postage has been set on the listing at £3.20 (Second Class Small Parcel). When the items arrive they have been sent as a Large Letter for £0.96p. I do know that postage includes packing as well. The latest parcel that I had arrive was just a very cheap jiffy bag. No extra bubble wrap or anything. So not a lot of cost with the packing. 20p at most.
Knowing these boards I know some my cry "Well you were happy to pay the postage price" and yes this is true I was happy to pay the postage price because I presumed it would be sent as a small parcel. The items I buy aren't that flat so I presume they would be over 2.5cms in depth. Perhaps the sellers thinks the item will have to sent as a small parcel hence the £3.20 Second Class postage price. 
When these sellers post their parcels and find out it can be sent as a Large Letter and pay for that service they pocket that difference in cost and don't bother sending their buyer a message and say it was sent as a Large Letter and not a Small Parcel so here's a small refund. These people must think their buyers are stupid. 
I also know these sellers have fees to pay but keeping the cost of postage that wasn't paid is all a bit of a con in my opinion. If it were me I'd partially refund the buyer. 

[buffster1963]

And this is why they will have to go ahead with mandatory simple delivery. Its always a few who ruin it for everyone. 

[vintique*violet]

😂😉..........They can come to my house with that "service" 

[vintique*violet]

It is the SD that prevents me from continuing, sadly. 

[fmil6108]

Really it takes 2 seconds to check if it is large letter. It is not fair on buyers if you are charging for a parcel when it really is a large letter. If it is a business I see the point of them charging for packaging materials but not if just selling something you don’t want or need.

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[moldosgifts]

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@vintique*violet wrote:

😂😉..........They can come to my house with that "service" 

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They can come to both at that price

[dicrig-51]

You can customise postage.

[poppyann2012]

I do not sell items myself but if i have ordered and received something and decide that it will not do what i want and have to return it i just tell them it does not do what I wanted i get the seller to sort out the return shipping and get them to pick the item up from my home, i buy quite a lot of items from China and the cost to return items back can end up costing more than the item is worth and most of the time the seller will just tell me to keep it and they will give me a full refund, for people in the UK postage can cost more than the cost of the item plus the cost of postage the postage cost's charged to people in UK is a huge amount more than what they charge people sending items from China to UK  it is not right that the UK post office charge people in UK more than they charge people in China.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I believe that China subsidises postage/delivery costs for items sent overseas, may be wrong.  Why should our government (in other words we taxpayers)  have to subsidise sellers postage?  The PO/RM and other couriers are in business themselves and have to make a profit or they would not exist and you would then have to buy locally!  Of course you are not happy paying but then are any of us happy at having to pay for anything?  

[jckl1957]

Really?

For £1.55p I can send a large letter containing a small piece of jewellery anywhere in the UK, including Northern Ireland and The Channel Islands.

That includes the delivery cost and the wages paid to the person at the post office who prints out a proof of posting for me.  The charge is made by Royal Mail - they set the price of postage and are a separate company to the Post Office.

If I was sending a small parcel, I could send it tracked for £3.45 with cover for loss of the contents up to £150.  I can't buy a small latte for that!

I think UK postage is excellent value for money.

[lucy_farmer]

'.....UK is a huge amount more than what they charge people sending items from China to UK  it is not right that the UK post office charge people in UK more than they charge people in China.'

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Postage *from* China is subsidised by the Chinese govt.

It is a political decision to make many other counties dependant on cheap chinese tat. Most other countries can't produce goods that cheaply, so for as long as China post it to us for pennies, we rely on it.

It's a bit like the 'loss leader/Uber' type business model. i.e. make goods or services so cheap that the supplier is making no or very little profit, but *is* heavily undercutting other suppliers.

Then once those other suppliers have gone under- because everybody's taking the cheaper alternative-Uber [or whoever] put their prices up and make profits because they now have a 'captive audience'. 

(in my personal opinion, our addiction to cheap chinese tat is killing our enviroment and our industries. But unfortunately, it's one of the mainstays of ebay's existence ☹️)

[jckl1957]

I was sooo tempted to add into my previousl reply that if I want cheap Chinese tat, I can go to a cheap shop and buy it.

There is no need to have it shipped from China direct to you; it's already here in abundance.

[poppyann2012]

I don't know how you class as £3500 model as Chinese tat they produce some of the best scale models in the world, these scale models work the same as the full size machines they have full working hydraulic systems along with all of the attachments a full size machine would have hydraulics hammer which will smash through rocks or bricks plus the hydraulic cutters for demolition jobs. When I bought this machine I did look at amazon for one after checking almost every modle shop in the UKand not one had them when checking amazon they had the same one I bought for £3500 but they had the price set at £12000 plus they wanted £1105 for the  shipping so that's why I imported it direct from china

 

[kath3735_wxmjn]

OKAY, i will say it, more fool you for paying that amount for what is really only a toy!