When a DEALER buys off you and then questions YOUR shipping costs!

[AdamCarterJones]

Right guys,

Many of us here buy and sell on eBay or elsewhere.
Some of you buy from dealers; some of you sell to dealers.

I sell a lot of posters and model cars etc to dealers through eBay.
I will never name names, but something made me think just how hypocritical some people can be.

One dealer won an auction last week I had running on eBay.
I clearly state the shipping will NOT be £4.00 (that is eBay's maximum cost for the first shipping option and cannot be avoided) and so I tell people to wait until I send them an invoice with the correct costs.
It is a condition laid out in all my auctions.

So, I sent the invoice.
The total cost of shipping was £5.25 (recorded delivery).
The dealer came back to me AFTER paying and said he thought the shipping price was high for recorded delivery and that I stated shipping at £4.00 - another instance when people do not read the auction listing clearly: I'm not sure how much clearer I can be without converting the information into a picture ... ... Oh, that's actually a good idea!

Anyway, I was astonished.
Why? Because this is a guy who runs a poster selling website and charges £9.00 for delivery!
And my £5.25 was high? When I make no profit from shipping whatsoever?
Some dealers must make a killing of excessive shipping prices!

Thanks for reading.
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[brude]

Your shipping charges are quite reasonable, IMO.
It takes all kinds, don't it?
 

[AdamCarterJones]

Thanks, mate.

My charges are at cost.
I make no profit from shipping at all.
I just don't like doing that.

Can't believe the cheek of some people.

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[DreamWarrior]

I was extremely pleased with your shipping price and speed. Screw that guy, you're one of the good ones.

[AdamCarterJones]

I was extremely pleased with your shipping price and speed. Screw that guy, you're one of the good ones.

Thank you.

I also mean in general, for other sellers, not just me.
It annoys me when other sellers who know the score question your costs.

At least personally I know I never make money from shipping, just like others here don't.

Cheers,
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[50s]

I don't envy sellers who ship for only material and postage costs, without a handling component for doing packaging, travel/petrol and time.

For me, for that hour I could have been working from home doing an extra hour for a client, earning $$$. Doesn't add up for me to be selling, only to have some nutter trying to do his maths on the front of the package. You know, for all 150 posters I have received in the post and another 150 totally awesome mexican lobby cards received, I have never once checked the cost on the package. I am happy to write off any discrepancy in that paid to 'keep it as your handling costs'...

[AdamCarterJones]

Yeah, I understand, Steve.
What annoyed me was that the dealer in question charges £9.00 for shipping on his own website, and yet he has the audacity to question my charges which do not include any labour costs.