Today's Ebay Package.....What Should I Do?

Honestly its $2 I'd just send him a message and move on, is it really worth getting in a tizzy over $2?

 

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Who's getting in a tizzy?

Maybe next time I have to drop by the grocery for a loaf of bread, I'll just walk out without bothering with the checkout. After all, honestly, it's $2.

 

I'd have to agree since the eBay experience is supposed to be reflected in the feedback for other buyers and if someone is advertising "free shipping" (which eliminates the possibility of a DSR on "Shipping and handling charges") but a buyer is going to have to pay for shipping anyway, then that can't possibly be positive.

 

I would not leave a NEG for the price of a stamp. Honest Mistake, to many buyer's on ebay are way to quick to leave a NEG.

 

If it was an honest mistake, which I agree it was, he should honestly fix it

 

I would contact the seller, and if there was no response from the seller, I would do a neutral feedback and in the comments and talk about item coming postage due.

Something similar happen to me but the S&H was about $60, the seller did take off $10 on the S&H, and this was on a winning bid of $13 for a MS-63 Morgan, I wondered why the bids were so low. Thought I hit the jackpot then the S&H hit me at check out, and I really did not like it but I waited 29 days to do the feedback and really thought about what to write. But that was at a time when you could select the star ratings.
It was partly my fault also since I did not look at the sellers feedback to see how others had rated him and the seller did have some feedbacks that were not positive. And I never did hit the calculate button to check the S&H.

 

It is returned to the seller and they try to charge them for the insufficient postage. Happened to me. I purchased an item (not coins) and it was a heavy item. I paid for the item and $20 for postage. They put simple first class postage and delivery confirmation on it and dumped it in a mailbox. It arrived postage due for $20. I refused delivery and they sent it back where is just sat in his post office waiting for him to come pick it up and pay the postage. He never did. So he got the money for the item, and the $20 postage. The Post office got the item (Which will eventually be sold as abandoned property.) And I got stiffed because ebay considered it to be delivered and closed my case against the seller. I wasn't even allowed to post feedback. I tried and ebay removed it because the case had gone against me.

Yes it works, that's an old scam.

Another similar one from back when I was a child, and long distance phone calls were expensive. When you would go home from somewhere they would want you to call when you got home to make sure you arrived safe. So you would call them collect. The operator would ask them if they would accept the charges and they would decline. They knew you made it home and there was no phone charge.

 

While that's a slimy approach to selling, it's a completely different situation. The S&H charge was accurately advertised in advance (thus the low bids on the coins). That's a sleazy marketing tactic, but it's not fraud. Deliberately sending an item postage-due, thus forcing the buyer to pay more than the agreed amount, is (IMHO) fraud.

Accidentally sending an item with inadequate postage isn't fraud, but refusing to make it right certainly at least approaches that line.

 

I will get you guys/gals a picture tomorrow. Sorry, working 12-hour midnight shifts this week. I went back and looked at the seller's feedback. I thought it was 120-something. It was 24. I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. I will send a polite heads-up message and will trust the KARMA gods to look kindly on me.

 

I gotta agree. Hardly worth anyone's time and definitely not bad enough to give someone a negative over. In my book, if the seller pays the $2 he shouldn't get a negative or a neutral. Could be I am too nice, but I don't think so.

 

Shoot.

 

I'd tell the seller to come visit me and take me out for a slice of pizza.

 

Was it you?

 

That looks really good, but... um... where's the cheese?

 

No hijacking my thread....with mushrooms!

 

Here ya go people....pics! I blocked both addresses...!

 

Funny thing is the seller probably shouldn't have put free shipping because if he paid that $1.80 himself he just paid money for you to have the coins and saw zero profit and took a loss on the coins. He made a mistake tried to mitigate his mistake by shipping it as cheaply as possible and postage ended up being due.

I mean a negative over $2 because the seller was an idiot and didn't want to take a loss to give coins away for free. I mean its $2 email the seller let him know he can decide what to do and move on, there is no reason to get up in arms over it.

 

Is there any reason not to leave a negative if the seller refuses to correct his mistake? To me, lying about shipping fees, or anything else in a listing, is grounds for negative feedback and/or opening a case.

 

I probably wouldn't he made mistake and its $1.80, hopefully he learns from his mistake but to each their own I guess.