Comments on: eBay UK set to limit postage charges?

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:45:39 +0000

Hi Kurtis, you’d be better off using PayPal postage through eBay with ParcelForce at around a tenner. Alternatively once you get above 2kg in weight there are loads of 3rd party courier companies offering better rates than going through the Post Office.

By: Kurtis

Kurtis — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:31:26 +0000

Recorded delivery next day? That was the price the post office gave me

By: board_surfer

board_surfer — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:14:54 +0000

no offence but if you cant ship a PS3 for less than a tenner you aint trying very hard.

By: Kurtis

Kurtis — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:10:36 +0000

I just sold my Playstation 3 on eBay yesterday and it sold for the buy it now price, “great” i thought, eBay would only let me put the post price as £14 when i was making the ad, but when it came to sending it yesterday it came to £30.30, more than double what i was allowed to charge for, plus then i was charged £9 odd by PayPal, all in all i lost nearly £25.

I think eBay in this instance is very much in the wrong, if people keep the reciepts for the postage and send them on to eBay they should be able to be reimbursed for the difference, its a bit disgusting that eBay dont allow you to put the real price of postage and have to lose even more money when all we’re trying to do is make money. I’ll be seeing if i can claim the £15 back from them somehow, but probably to no avail!

By: Super Max

Super Max — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:27:01 +0000

I certainly don’t want to have to use whoever ebay has negotiated a cut price service with, and as north says theres no need.

Ebay have a massive amount of data to work out the average postage charge in each category, just have that as a max price, it will still be far higher than the real Royal Mail price.

personally I charge the royal mail price and not a penny more, its cheaper than any carrier for under 2kg and the postage label shows the buyer you have been transparent with the postage costs. I know I am far cheaper on postage than my competitors so any limit is no threat to me.

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:02:30 +0000

we cant find anyone anywhere that can even come close to Royal mail
for weights under 2k
though thats not my point
ebay can set a reasonable maximum for postage as things stand now without spending time and effort negotiating postage rates

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:47:01 +0000

Hi 104

The royal mail is very limited in its weights and most regular sellers can already obtain rates from other nationals that are much lower than RM’s like for like.
I would love to just use RM’s rates to my customers but if I said it was delivery Â£9.00 / 4kg they just woudn’t pay it and would probably complain to ebay!

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:34:37 +0000

103
why should ebay worry or do anything about postal rates

the Royal Mails are already in place and available

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:02:26 +0000

Ok…got that out of my system…A lot of comments here but ive scanned through them and…….
As I said volume plays a huge part in delivery cost so how about something that only appears to be briefly mentioned.
Ebay post!!!
Ebay get a decent volume related discount with a big national and or the royal mail and EVERYONE pays the same postage rates.All you have to do to qualify is have an Ebay sticker on your parcel ( produced free by ebay using some of their massive profits).
1kg,2kg,5kg,10kg,25kg. then a kilo rate and pallet rates, Uk offshore etc. All services recorded track n trace
The seller then has two options they offer ebay rates or buyer collects.
It sounds very simple to me and if ebay spent more time trying to solve problems instead of alienating sellers maybe things would be better.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:31:58 +0000

The biggest problem with P&P is like all types of service is depends on who you use and what volume you send out.For example carrier and parcelforce rates for a single item are incredibly expensive but have to be paid.Whereas regular high volume senders are on less than 50% of the standard tariff.
So my 1 off cost me Â£14.99 carriage, same product sold by a regular user might cost Â£5.99 through the same carrier.The irony is that the person who can get the reduced carriage can then slightly over inflate the carriage ( to save on fees) and still undercut me making it look like im the one ripping people off!
I’ve also had problems trying to send rolls of bubble wrap………many people use parcelforce but when I ring them they say you can’t send rolls!
Lets not even go into the fact that most post offices are shut and to send a small packet can now take a couple of quid in fuel and a 20 minutes queue.
Ebay has got it very wrong again!!!