falter
Veteran Member
Found this in the vintage computer section. Clearly they must have some kind of an angle or this is a novelty auction? A single sheet of copy paper?
Don't forget the $100 shipping for the item that would fit in a priority mail box. I contact them and they act like nothing is wrong with the listing.A common way of cheating to avoid fees. You have a certain number of free listings per month. If you do not use them all, they are lost when the month is over. To get around this, many sellers create such fake items that no one would ever buy. Later, these placeholders are modified to sell a real item.
Even since ebay started taxing sellers on the shipping costs most of that nonsense has gone awayDon't forget the $100 shipping for the item that would fit in a priority mail box. I contact them and they act like nothing is wrong with the listing.
Most.. but not all.. I have a few items lately i've saved watching.. that this is still the case (within the last month). :-/Even since ebay started taxing sellers on the shipping costs most of that nonsense has gone away
Even since ebay started taxing sellers on the shipping costs most of that nonsense has gone away
Doesn't ebay just use USPS/UPS to calculate shipping based on zip code?
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and thus is not international, at least according to the USPS. Airmail postage and/or customs forms are not required to send items from the mainland to Puerto Rico or vice versa.I remember having Puerto Ricans doing this to me when I was still selling, despite me having no international or overseas shipping.
sure but does ebay acount for this on thier rules and regulations. eBay does everything in its power to punish and screw its sellers.Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and thus is not international, at least according to the USPS. Airmail postage and/or customs forms are not required to send items from the mainland to Puerto Rico or vice versa.
Whether or not ebay gives you a shipping discount is a separate issue from ebay incorrectly calculating postage via USPS etc. Which was the original claim.How are they at fault? Ok here is an example. I sell Apple IIc video adapters. Some guy bought one from me. After receiving it and getting the impression by his email Forrest Gump was this mans mental superior he filed a claim against me. His claim was my video adapter didnt work as an RF adapter! No where in my listing does it say its an RF adapter. I explained to the guy and said that as well but eBay sided with him even though I have sold hundreds and never once received a single negative feedback on them.
Im getting to the point now.. Because of this, eBay dropped my seller rating even though it was a bogus claim. Because of that my ebay shipping discounts became much less (they took away my power seller standard over this). So eBay controls shipping costs. Also I sell alot of items through the global shipping program since international shipping has priced me out of it. I see what they charge the buyers and the figures are ridiculous. And again, even though ebay tries to paint the image that its a third part doing the shipping its all controlled by ebay. eBay does everything to get thier dollar first in the end; seller and buyer be damned.