@stubert0 wrote:
Good point! So perhaps sellers to should state their could be extra costs due to their logistics? Bring back the old ebay.
Nowadays they would be committing a serious violation of policy if they did.
Ah, this takes me back! Long ago, when a seller could produce a P&P chare after you bought, this produced my only non-payment strike in 21 years, which eBay removed on request, along with the froth-spattering negative feedback sellers could then leave.
He tried for three times the P&P feedback on a micrometer which others were charging, and I had the 1in. version of his 25mm, one in front of me. His explanation was that his logistics, or words to that effect, required him to pay for petrol to the post office and parking there. Such items are pointedly absent from the Selling Practices Policy.
Google maps and street photography, then a novelty, showed a small post office with free parking two minutes from his home by Google's estimation, on quiet suburban streets. When I pointed this out, he said he didn't use that post office, because he had so many other things to do in town. Part of that would be posting several other items he sold that weekend.
That was the old eBay.
Another point rmc1311 raise is that we sometimes don't know the weight of an item, or its weight and dimensions when packed. eBay won't enforce any request for some of your money back, and I don't know how valid it was with the jacket, but there is no question of your being wrong in making a polite, non-threatening suggestion.
It is certainly true that the charge is displayed, and it is just common sense to consider it before choosing to buy. But there is no question of your decision making the seller innocent of any illicit profit which results. He chose that amount before the listing existed, and choosing it is the offence. Total cost to buy? They frequently don't make the BIN price low in proportion, and an auction seller doesn't know to what selling price his P&P charge will be added.
