Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:04 PM |
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P & P costs
Was looking for an item on the bay and found
this
If you go onto their website they state free delivery, so why is it £9.99 P & P for an item that probably costs about £2 to post?
Mind you, I also checked out their feedback, not too encouraging....
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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iscmatt
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:08 PM |
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its to equal the price
on ebay its £4.99 + £9.99 P+P = £14.98
and on their website it is £14.99 + £0 P+P = £14.99
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:12 PM |
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So it's actually cheaper on the bay.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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BenB
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:12 PM |
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And then they pay less Ebay fees.....
Very annoying practice though..... until Ebay introduce the "sort by price including postage" option anyway...
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Miks15
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:13 PM |
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because ebay charge fees for the selling price, but not on P+P, so they lose less money through ebay doing it that way
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Madinventions
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:15 PM |
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eBay charge an amount to list an item which is proportional to the starting price. Therefore, the price is often set low to keep this down and the
postage is used to make up the difference.
Shady practice, and against eBay rules when it's done excessively but just take a look at most of the Hong Kong auctions and you'll see
that they all do it!
Ed.
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:16 PM |
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I know why they do it, just damn annoying that they can 
I'm just waiting to see if some muppet bids more than £5 on it 
Always amazes me how much some people bid on stuff just to win it!
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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Madinventions
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:18 PM |
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'Sort by price including postage' is already there...
On my account, I've also changed the default layout to include a column to show p&p.
Ed.
Mojo build diary: http://www.madinventions.co.uk
Solo music project: Syrrenfor http://www.reverbnation.com/syrrenfor
View my band website:
http://www.shadowlight.org.uk
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk/
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iscmatt
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:19 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
I know why they do it, just damn annoying that they can
I'm just waiting to see if some muppet bids more than £5 on it
Always amazes me how much some people bid on stuff just to win it!
That would be funny
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DavidW
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:21 PM |
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If you then go for a refund on an item I think you only ever get the cost of it back minus P&P. Not sure how a paypal claim would deal with
this?
This always scares me of the Chinese auctions for 99p plus £10 p&p etc.
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blakep82
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenB
And then they pay less Ebay fees.....
Very annoying practice though..... until Ebay introduce the "sort by price including postage" option anyway...
this one?
 
Description
it doesn't add it up for you, but i does sort them by total cost
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UncleFista
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 12:43 PM |
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Click "report item",
"Listing policy breaches"
"Listing policy breaches" (again)
"Circumvention of eBay fees"
eBay don't like it when they lose out on their fees, they'll do something about it pretty quickly, unlike when you report shill bidding,
'cos they make more money from that
Tony Bond / UncleFista
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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 02:42 PM |
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Done!
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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owelly
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| posted on 3/3/10 at 03:21 PM |
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Buy it and I'll go and collect it for you. Then I'll pop it in the post for £6.99....!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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