Reporting Excess Shipping on eBay

[griffin]

They shouldn't be charging import fees. ???
If it is applicable, it would be Customs charging you... and that's only if it were over a certain value.

Sounds a bit scammish to me. The only thing a seller should be entitled to charge for is the shipping, and only within a reasonable amount of the actual postage cost. (so check what it ends up costing when you receive it, compared to what you were charged)

Expensive trackable shipping is required to cover the seller from scam-buyers (who claim refunds for items they receive, but the seller can't prove that it was delivered), but the seller has to use that expensive shipping method if they charge for it.

[Megatron]

They shouldn't be charging import fees. ???
If it is applicable, it would be Customs charging you... and that's only if it were over a certain value.

Sounds a bit scammish to me. The only thing a seller should be entitled to charge for is the shipping, and only within a reasonable amount of the actual postage cost. (so check what it ends up costing when you receive it, compared to what you were charged)

Expensive trackable shipping is required to cover the seller from scam-buyers (who claim refunds for items they receive, but the seller can't prove that it was delivered), but the seller has to use that expensive shipping method if they charge for it.

From what I gathered, it's eBay that charges the fee and not the seller. Basically how it works is that if a seller in the US uses this program, they don't have to worry about handling the item at all after the auction ends; it's all done at eBay's GSP center where they package and ship the item off to the buyer (using a private courier, not UPS) without the seller having to do anything at all (except for sending the item to the center in the first place). Then, if there's a problem, PayPal will only cover the actual cost of the item, and not the shipping.

[Kazza]

From what I gathered, it's eBay that charges the fee and not the seller. Basically how it works is that if a seller in the US uses this program, they don't have to worry about handling the item at all after the auction ends; it's all done at eBay's GSP center where they package and ship the item off to the buyer (using a private courier, not UPS) without the seller having to do anything at all (except for sending the item to the center in the first place). Then, if there's a problem, PayPal will only cover the actual cost of the item, and not the shipping.

F**k i just paid for my botcon clench thinking i was paying for USPS Priority mail until i saw a 2nd payment made to the third party in charge of handling the shipping on my paypal receipt. What if the item actually gets lost in mail or doesnt arrive in intended country? Surely you have to be able to get the full refund on shipping?!!

[Megatron]

F**k i just paid for my botcon clench thinking i was paying for USPS Priority mail until i saw a 2nd payment made to the third party in charge of handling the shipping on my paypal receipt. What if the item actually gets lost in mail or doesnt arrive in intended country? Surely you have to be able to get the full refund on shipping?!!

I'm not sure... if it can be proven that the courier is at fault then you may get a shipping refund. But I'm just guessing. Hopefully your item will arrive safe and sound, so you won't have to deal with any of that.

[Koroboo]

Biggest rort of 'shipping charges' I've ever seen...
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SET-OF-OP...#ht_500wt_1414

[1AZRAEL1]

Report it. People like that try to get out of paying ebay fees. And that figure is not even worth that much either.

[griffin]

I reported it. Considering how often people used to avoid ebay fees by cranking up the shipping amount, it didn't appear to be an option on the menu of reasons it was being reported. And I couldn't say why I was selecting "other", so ebay will either ignore it or spend a couple seconds looking over the listing to see what jumps out as obvious.

I wonder how successful you could be in getting it cheap with the "buyer protection" element of Paypal. As in, you buy it for the minimum bid of $1, and pay $300 in total, but then when it arrives with significantly less postage, you make a claim or complaint to ebay about excessive shipping charges.
I get the impression that buyer protection might only cover the item itself (and it's price), so any excessive postage might only end up with just being able to give negative feedback... so it might not be worth the risk on an item that isn't worth $300. If it were a total of $200, and you were desperate for it, that would be worth the risk, because even if you didn't get any money back, you didn't spend more than the current going rate of this figure (with shipping) anyway.