OK. I bought an item last night and I was the only bidder (Item number: 260984229142). I got it for the opening bid of $99.99 plus $11.08 shipping. Today the seller says he made a mistake on the shipping costs and wants another $8. I say no because his listing states:

"WILL BE MAILED IN A FLAT RATE BOX WELL PACKED IN BUBBLE WRAP. BUT WILL HAVE TO BE INSURED WITH DEL COMFORMATION."

Am I misinterpreting this to mean that there will be an extra charge to the stated shipping costs? Nowhere has he stated that the extra is for insurance or del conf., in fact his email to me states:

"THE SHIPPING COST THAT E-BAY HAS IS WRONG I WILL SEND YOU THE TOTAL ON FRIDAY MORNING. THANKS FOR BIDDING."

(he likes to write in all caps)

I called eBay and they agree with me that my interpretation is correct: $11.08 shipping cost includes ins and del confirmation and he should have made it clear that this was an optional service if in fact that is what he's claiming. I know that if I were the seller I would not let this item (Noritake china) leave my possession with out insurance and I would have certainly included it in my shipping cost.

So, who is confused here me? the seller? eBay?

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that was what you agreed to. He (seller) eats the $8

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PizzaGod
that was what you agreed to. He (seller) eats the $8

"WELL I'M SORRY ALSO. I WILL NOT SHIP IT TO YOU FOR THE COST THAT E-BAY PUTS
ON IT. SO I WILL SEE WHAT I HAVE TO DO TO CANCEL THE AUCTION AND LET YOU
KNOW."

and...

"THE LAST LINE IN MY LISTING SAYS THEY HAVE TO HAVE INSURANCE AND
DEL.CONFIRMATION 99.9% OF THE BUYERS UNDERSTAND THEY HAVE TO PAY THIS. SO
IF YOU DO NOT PAY FOR IT YOU WILL NOT GET IT. WHEN I GET YOUR PAYMENT I
WILL KNOW WHAT YOU WANT. LOOK AT MY FEEDBACK I'M ABOUT THE NICEST SELLER
AND BUYED YOU WILL EVER MEET. BUT I'M NOT EATING THESE FEES."

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WELL, I GUESS, sorry, I guess it all depends on how much you want the item. When putting an auction together, you have a few options for shipping costs. You can offer free shipping, flat rate shipping or have ebay figure it out by zip code. You have to input info in order for that to work. Did he do the flat rate? I think ebay adds the shipping costs into their final value because so many sellers abused the shipping costs in the past. Sounds like he wants to get around some of bay's fees.
If you really want the item, you can pay the extra few bucks and leave appropriate feedback. I'm not saying to neg him, but, buyers can neg a seller, a seller can not neg a buyer. As a seller (and buyer) I really don't think that is fair since there are so many crappy buyers out there.

WELL, I SUPPOSE HE WILL HAVE TO DEAL DIRECTLY WITH EBAY REGARDING HIS CONFUSING LISTING SINCE THEY ALREADY INFORMALLY AGREED WITH YOUR ASSESSMENT.

Writing in all caps is tiresome.

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silvarios
Writing in all caps is tiresome.

My keyboard has something called an "caps lock" button...does your's?

Seller's mistake..he eats the cost.

You may want to point out this policy: [pages.ebay.com] which specifies "Insurance: You can't charge a separate fee for insurance, although you still need to make sure your item arrives as described. Tip: You should incorporate any insurance fees into an item's price or handling cost." Also from the same policy: "Be sure to specify shipping costs and related service charges in your listings. It's against our rules to provide unclear or misleading shipping information or to charge unreasonable fees for shipping and related services."

First off, he can go @#$%& himself (wonder if that word will show up?)

He's the nicest seller you'll run into? That matters why? Hitler was kind to his mother.

I'd write this one off, but depending on how much time you have to mess with him, I'd make him squirm.

Hell, tell him you'll pay for the extras-but he needs to cut the cost.

What a maroon!

ebay should stand by you and tell the seller to send you the item for the 11.00 shipping or be banded from ebay forever.

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ebay should stand by you and tell the seller to send you the item for the 11.00 shipping or be banded from ebay forever.

eBay has said I'm right but they also said that all they could do is make the seller charge me the $11.08 without any insurance. Now lets see...a box of fine china, upto 9 days Parcel Post shipping and no insurance... yeah....I'm not feeling this one coming out in my favor.

Note: In doing some digging into his feedback there seems to be another sale of this set that he sold for $1500. I'm guessing he's in trouble on the price because I was the only bidder at $99.99. Any bets on what the re-listed price will be???

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WELL, I SUPPOSE HE WILL HAVE TO DEAL DIRECTLY WITH EBAY REGARDING HIS CONFUSING LISTING SINCE THEY ALREADY INFORMALLY AGREED WITH YOUR ASSESSMENT.

Writing in all caps is tiresome.

Keep in mind that when you do write in all caps you should also include a few mispeellings and pour grammer CUZ YOU AIN'T FOOLIN NOBUDDY WIF THAT LINE ABOV!

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You may want to point out this policy: [pages.ebay.com] which specifies "Insurance: You can't charge a separate fee for insurance, although you still need to make sure your item arrives as described. Tip: You should incorporate any insurance fees into an item's price or handling cost." Also from the same policy: "Be sure to specify shipping costs and related service charges in your listings. It's against our rules to provide unclear or misleading shipping information or to charge unreasonable fees for shipping and related services."

TL, thanks for the link. I quoted this to eBay and sent it to the seller but I guess I'm now on ignore. Oh well....

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Sounds like a Seller I'll add to our Blocked Bidder List. I despise Sellers that pull crap like that. Unless I'm
mistaken a Seller can't charge for insurance anymore, you can charge shipping and handling but not for
insurance. I realize he wasn't the buyer but I don't want jerks like that buying anything my wife.

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If he refuses to sell for the listed price, be sure to report as a non-performing seller. If he sends you a cancel request, he's doing it in an attempt to recover his fees. Be sure to respond to any cancel request within 7 days, as if you do not it is considered silent consent.

If it were me in your shoes, I would hold the seller to the listing. IMO he's been selling long enough to know better and therefore be held accountable for his actions. If he refused to honor his listing, he'd be getting a non-performing seller alert on his record and a negative feedback, plus appropriate DSRs. Your call on how you choose to handle it.

Here's the latest after I sent him the link that TL posted above

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LOOK YOU ARE ONE BIG PAIN. PAY WHAT YOU WANT AND SEE WHAT YOU GET. I HAVE
TRIED TO BE NICE TO YOU . BUT I CAN SEE ITS NOT GOING TO WORK.

-fignewt57


Nice huh..... this guys a winner.

edit: just spoke to ebay and filed a complaint against this guy. What I didn't like is they say he can still file a non paying bidder alert on me and I then have to work to get it removed. Hardly seems fair considering but hey, I guess that's just one of the reasons eBay is teh suck.

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TL
If he refuses to sell for the listed price, be sure to report as a non-performing seller.

Wouldn't Jack have to pay at the listed price first?

This guy is a real piece of work al right. No wonder so many are turned off by eBay when you run into
someone like this it leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

My wife gets feedback like: "perfect in ever way highly recommend********" and "MAKING SMILES DAILY!!! ORDER HERE, THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She has a lot of repeat buyers. It sucks that a few bad apples tends to spoil the whole bunch.

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Here's the latest after I sent him the link that TL posted above

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LOOK YOU ARE ONE BIG PAIN. PAY WHAT YOU WANT AND SEE WHAT YOU GET. I HAVE
TRIED TO BE NICE TO YOU . BUT I CAN SEE ITS NOT GOING TO WORK.

-fignewt57


Nice huh..... this guys a winner.

edit: just spoke to ebay and filed a complaint against this guy. What I didn't like is they say he can still file a non paying bidder alert on me and I then have to work to get it removed. Hardly seems fair considering but hey, I guess that's just one of the reasons eBay is teh suck.

This guy is shooting himself in the foot. If the item arrives broken, it's still his responsibility, whether he bought insurance or not, and you would be able to get a refund for Item Not As Described.

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This guy is shooting himself in the foot. If the item arrives broken, it's still his responsibility, whether he bought insurance or not, and you would be able to get a refund for Item Not As Described.

I agree. If you're willing to put up with the hassle, then just pay the $11 shipping and have him ship it with no insurance. If he's smart, he'll pony up the insurance himself. If he's not and it arrives broken, just file a claim with eBay and you'll most likely get a refund from eBay.

If you decide to go through with this, make sure you have PayPal pull the funds from a credit card, not directly from your bank account. That gives you an extra level of protection if/when the china arrives broken.

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This guy is a real piece of work al right. No wonder so many are turned off by eBay when you run into
someone like this it leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

My wife gets feedback like: "perfect in ever way highly recommend********" and "MAKING SMILES DAILY!!! ORDER HERE, THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She has a lot of repeat buyers. It sucks that a few bad apples tends to spoil the whole bunch.

This seller also has great reviews.

Note to self: another example of why to continue to stay away from ebay.

I don't see this as a right or wrong, buyer vs. seller... seems like ebay's jacking around the shipping parameters so much as to make the situation unfair to both buyers and sellers. Sure, sellers tried to get around ebay fees by upping shipping costs, and ebay tried to figure out how get a piece of the pie, but in doing so they penalized all of their customers. ebay should have simply added a shipping fee, fee, based nominally on sales price, plus a substantial surcharge based on exceeding a reasonable shipping cost matrix, and/or gone big into the shipping biz market themselves, negotiating major discounts from the major shippers, and passing along 75-80% of the discount to their customers and keeping a 20-25% kickback- win/win, and easily orchestrated thru a shipping portal on ebay's website. Jack's situation sounds like a lose/lose that could and should have been avoided. It never ceases to amaze me at how greed clouds people's judgment into creating ridiculous business models at every level.

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Note to self: another example of why to continue to stay away from ebay.

I don't see this as a right or wrong, buyer vs. seller... seems like ebay's jacking around the shipping parameters so much as to make the situation unfair to both buyers and sellers. Sure, sellers tried to get around ebay fees by upping shipping costs, and ebay tried to figure out how get a piece of the pie, but in doing so they penalized all of their customers. ebay should have simply added a shipping fee, fee, based nominally on sales price, plus a substantial surcharge based on exceeding a reasonable shipping cost matrix, and/or gone big into the shipping biz market themselves, negotiating major discounts from the major shippers, and passing along 75-80% of the discount to their customers and keeping a 20-25% kickback- win/win, and easily orchestrated thru a shipping portal on ebay's website. Jack's situation sounds like a lose/lose that could and should have been avoided. It never ceases to amaze me at how greed clouds people's judgment into creating ridiculous business models at every level.

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I agree with Buzz. This guy has good reviews and I think that he's just confused about ebay's policies. I also have good reviews and pay immediately after the auction ends. In my 10+ years of buying on eBay I have only given out 2 negatives and both to sellers that basically took the money and ran with it. I am not one of those buyers from hell that so many sellers refer to in their rants.

In this case I'm sticking to my guns about the price because he wrote the auction and set the prices and he had three days to fix his pricing error (if there was an error, he never gave me any explanation about what the problem was). Also, if he had been straight with me out of the gate this would not have been an issue and I would most likely have just paid the difference and been on my way. So in this case a little customer care and humbleness would have avoided all this BS.

On another note, after speaking with the eBay CSR I got the impression that eBay just wants their cut without any involvement between the two parties. But when I pointed out that they are involved simply by controlling all aspects of how we do business from setting the rules of engagement to limiting payment options (she actually said that eBay has nothing to do with PP) I get "We're supplying a service and are entitled to get paid for it." Yes, eBay is working both ends and the middle but doesn't want to fix the issue when the players draw blood. Lesson learned here: buyer beware and in this case seller too.

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Ebay;s shipping often does not show what the actual costs are for shipping. I even had the USPS return a package for insufficient postage after printing out the shipping label from Ebay.

Since there is no more feedback, basically it's like a classified section these days. If you want the item, negotiate with the seller, or otherwise back out

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Note to self: another example of why to continue to stay away from ebay.

I don't see this as a right or wrong, buyer vs. seller... seems like ebay's jacking around the shipping parameters so much as to make the situation unfair to both buyers and sellers. Sure, sellers tried to get around ebay fees by upping shipping costs, and ebay tried to figure out how get a piece of the pie, but in doing so they penalized all of their customers. ebay should have simply added a shipping fee, fee, based nominally on sales price, plus a substantial surcharge based on exceeding a reasonable shipping cost matrix, and/or gone big into the shipping biz market themselves, negotiating major discounts from the major shippers, and passing along 75-80% of the discount to their customers and keeping a 20-25% kickback- win/win, and easily orchestrated thru a shipping portal on ebay's website. Jack's situation sounds like a lose/lose that could and should have been avoided. It never ceases to amaze me at how greed clouds people's judgment into creating ridiculous business models at every level.

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I agree with Buzz. This guy has good reviews and I think that he's just confused about ebay's policies. I also have good reviews and pay immediately after the auction ends. In my 10+ years of buying on eBay I have only given out 2 negatives and both to sellers that basically took the money and ran with it. I am not one of those buyers from hell that so many sellers refer to in their rants.

In this case I'm sticking to my guns about the price because he wrote the auction and set the prices and he had three days to fix his pricing error (if there was an error, he never gave me any explanation about what the problem was). Also, if he had been straight with me out of the gate this would not have been an issue and I would most likely have just paid the difference and been on my way. So in this case a little customer care and humblenes would have avoided all this BS

I agree that the guy is basically struggling with something that's beyond his understanding-- I don't think there is a deliberate attempt to mislead or swindle. If I was dealing with such a person in a traditional (off-eBay) situation, I don't think it would serve my interests to get hung up on "the rules."
It's not clear how you've decided to handle this. You're going to wait for him to say "OK, I'll accept the payment without the extra insurance charge" and he's most likely going to continue to ignore you, meaning ultimately you'll walk away?

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This guy is a real piece of work al right. No wonder so many are turned off by eBay when you run into
someone like this it leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

My wife gets feedback like: "perfect in ever way highly recommend********" and "MAKING SMILES DAILY!!! ORDER HERE, THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She has a lot of repeat buyers. It sucks that a few bad apples tends to spoil the whole bunch.

This seller also has great reviews.

I don't give a crap, the guy is a jerk. My wife bought a fairly large group of Duplo Legos from an eBay seller several
months ago as a gift for a family member and they were just dumped into a box, no plastic bag, bubble wrap or anything.
She wouldn't respond to any questions as they arrived with box broken open and items exposed. She was a Top
Rated Seller, she responded real fast when I dropped a negative on her. I gave her over a week to respond to my questions.

You don't ship Legos, large or small, without putting them in some sorta bag and then putting them in the box.
She had excellent feedback also.

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Ebay;s shipping often does not show what the actual costs are for shipping. I even had the USPS return a package for insufficient postage after printing out the shipping label from Ebay.

Since there is no more feedback, basically it's like a classified section these days. If you want the item, negotiate with the seller, or otherwise back out

I don't get it. You weigh the item in the box you plan on using with an accurate scale, add an oz or two for tape and
a shipping label and enter the weight into the calculated shipping section of eBay's listing page and you're all set.
The buyer will be able to see the exact cost of shipping to whatever zip code or country they live in.

I agree that the feedback system is screwed up, there's not much doubt about that. It's more than just a classified
section, where else can whatever it is you're selling get that kind of exposure.

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Note to self: another example of why to continue to stay away from ebay.

I don't see this as a right or wrong, buyer vs. seller... seems like ebay's jacking around the shipping parameters so much as to make the situation unfair to both buyers and sellers. Sure, sellers tried to get around ebay fees by upping shipping costs, and ebay tried to figure out how get a piece of the pie, but in doing so they penalized all of their customers. ebay should have simply added a shipping fee, fee, based nominally on sales price, plus a substantial surcharge based on exceeding a reasonable shipping cost matrix, and/or gone big into the shipping biz market themselves, negotiating major discounts from the major shippers, and passing along 75-80% of the discount to their customers and keeping a 20-25% kickback- win/win, and easily orchestrated thru a shipping portal on ebay's website. Jack's situation sounds like a lose/lose that could and should have been avoided. It never ceases to amaze me at how greed clouds people's judgment into creating ridiculous business models at every level.

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I agree with Buzz. This guy has good reviews and I think that he's just confused about ebay's policies. I also have good reviews and pay immediately after the auction ends. In my 10+ years of buying on eBay I have only given out 2 negatives and both to sellers that basically took the money and ran with it. I am not one of those buyers from hell that so many sellers refer to in their rants.

In this case I'm sticking to my guns about the price because he wrote the auction and set the prices and he had three days to fix his pricing error (if there was an error, he never gave me any explanation about what the problem was). Also, if he had been straight with me out of the gate this would not have been an issue and I would most likely have just paid the difference and been on my way. So in this case a little customer care and humblenes would have avoided all this BS

I agree that the guy is basically struggling with something that's beyond his understanding-- I don't think there is a deliberate attempt to mislead or swindle. If I was dealing with such a person in a traditional (off-eBay) situation, I don't think it would serve my interests to get hung up on "the rules."
It's not clear how you've decided to handle this. You're going to wait for him to say "OK, I'll accept the payment without the extra insurance charge" and he's most likely going to continue to ignore you, meaning ultimately you'll walk away?

He won't accept the original price and the PayPal invoice has been changed to reflect the higher cost. He refuses to comprehend that eBays rules prohibit him from changing a price after the auction is completed and after the "pay what you want, see what you get" comment would you trust him?

I'm done with this guy. Ebay says if he files a non paying bidder hit on me they will remove it. All correspondence was done through eBay messaging and the CSR says that it's plain that I'm willing to complete the sale as won but he is not.

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Good on you Jack . I think since Black likes him so much
he should cook his own deal with him as he seems to have a charming affinity so to speak

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Jack D.
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Note: In doing some digging into his feedback there seems to be another sale of this set that he sold for $1500. I'm guessing he's in trouble on the price because I was the only bidder at $99.99. Any bets on what the re-listed price will be???

Yeah, I don't like that he asks you for another $8, but if that set is indeed worth $1500, heck make that even $300, then I would pay the $8 just to get the good deal. good luck with whatever you decide.

$1500 would be for a set in perfect condition to motivated collector. Based on the description, that is not this set. There are a number of flaws that drop the value considerably. As listed it is something a person would use to replace a missing item in a set they already had.

P.S. This is a set made for export, that also can lower the value in some patterns.

I would back out in a second. You already know the guy is an idiot for several reasons and then you expect a disputed transaction (involving insurance) to work out smoothly when the item is CHINA?

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Jack D.
Here's the latest after I sent him the link that TL posted above

"
LOOK YOU ARE ONE BIG PAIN. PAY WHAT YOU WANT AND SEE WHAT YOU GET. I HAVE
TRIED TO BE NICE TO YOU . BUT I CAN SEE ITS NOT GOING TO WORK.

-fignewt57


Nice huh..... this guys a winner.

edit: just spoke to ebay and filed a complaint against this guy. What I didn't like is they say he can still file a non paying bidder alert on me and I then have to work to get it removed. Hardly seems fair considering but hey, I guess that's just one of the reasons eBay is teh suck.

Sounds like the guy from my last ebay sale. Telling me how nice he was while threatening me.