Postage?

[Girlzmum]

I just won a buggy on eBay (thanks Whassat!!!) I'm delighted with the price but having a problem with the postage. I checked the price of the postage before I bid and it was listed as courier delivery, UK for £10 but when I went to pay the only shipping option available was next day courier for £25! Thats more than I'm paying for the buggy! Have emailled the seller and asked why the difference is there - Northern Ireland is in the UK and therefore postage costs should remain the same. So annoyed, can't believe they're trying to screw me like that.

[Girlzmum]

Well, I got an automated reply saying that if you lived outside mainland UK then you will incur costs starting from £19!!!! So I replied with this:

I am writing regarding the above eBay item. I recently won the auction but it wasn't until I queried the cost of postage that I received a full list of the costs, despite it being listed as £10 postage to the UK (as opposed to postage to Mainland UK) As the postage costs have now practically tripled I am not willing to purchase the item. I am unsure what steps you would like to take regarding this but if you could contact me and let me know your decision.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that I check the postage costs on every auction before making a bid and had your pricing structure been clear I would not have bid. I hope you can avoid any further confusion by making it clear on your pages that costs are different for people living outside mainland UK.

Colette

Hope it does the job, I don't want an unpaid item dispute over this.

[Sarah]

Depends who they are using. I use parcel2go for a lot of my stuff and they are fab. Some couriers will charge more for what they class as 'overseas' shipping even though royal mail don't. They probably wan't to use a courier that will collect rather than the royal mail which, as you rightly say, only charge the same for where you live.
You don't have to purchase it hun if they won't back down, he can send you a mutual agreement to say that you disagreed over postage costs and there's nothing he can do.
Sarah x

[sadierhianne]

Colette, if it is posted with RM it can be posted to you depending on weight for around £13 which is between 10 & 20KG - a courier would be more.

I'd ask then on this occasion to post with RM, this allows you to have the buggy and avoids neg feedback for both parties.

hth

[Girlzmum]

Right now I just don't want to go ahead with the purchase. As far as I'm concerned the seller just wasn't clear about postage costs, if they were then I wouldn't have bid at all. If they want to fight it then they can but they're not getting any money out of me.

[xmisscx]

hope you gt it sorted hun x

[Girlzmum]

She told me to let it go to an unpaid item dispute then to let eBay know we'd been in touch and mutually agreed to withdraw from the sale. Is that ok to do? I won't get neg feedback from it, will I?