Postage question

[stoppinattwo]

I bought 2 items from a seller last night on ebay, I emailed to ask if the seller minded combining/ reducing the postage. I then found out the seller lives about 2 streets away so i asked if she minded me collecting the items and saving on the postage.

She wants to charge me £5 for me collecting 2 dresses !!!! what am i best doing, I think if postage isnt used then postage shouldnt be paid.

WTF can i do??

[stoppinattwo]

I have just offered to pay using paypal which will save her fees.........see if that works

[sixlostmonkeys]

how will paypal save her fees?

confused

[Flibbertyjibbet]

I had this a while back, someone local who insisted on taking the postage money whether she posted or hand delivered. She has to go past my house on the way to the post office fgs!
BUT I always make that enquiry before bidding. In that instance I didn't bother to bid.

But you have bid, so the other example I have is that someone said yes I could collect but he would still need £1.50 of the £3 postage 'to cover listing fees etc'. In that instance I had already bid so I paid but learned my lesson.

Perhaps if you email her to say that she can either post them to you (so you pay the fiver and she posts them for about £2 probably ) but at least she has to cough up, or you offer to pay £1 or £2 'towards her ebay fees' which will possibly make you choke, but you'll get the dresses.

[Pannacotta]

If you offer to pay cash not paypal this would avoid her paying her paypal fees.
Try that.

[sixlostmonkeys]

whilst i don't personally think people should charge P&p when someone collects, apparently it is quite common.

there isn't anything you can do about it as you didn't ask before bidding.

I'd tell her to post them tbh.
She doesn't have to combine the postage, again, because you didn't ask before bidding.

If she doesn't combine I'd be tempted to pay two separate payments for them (then she pays 2 lots of paypal fees) childish I know but this kind of thing bugs me

[DiscoDizzy]

I would've emailed her beforehand to ask if they were ok with waiving the postage fee prior to bidding. She's within her rights to request the postage payment. I'd be miffed though.

[stoppinattwo]

I would normally ask before bidding but i was bidding with minutes to go and it wouldnt let me, i only noticed how close she lived when it came to arrange payment.

I have made the offer of cash to save her pp fees, tbh the post office is further for her than my house too whic makes it ridiculous.

I have knocked postage off for people before, i understnad how postage costs are made up, it just annoys me when i think people are cashing in on them

[stoppinattwo]

hee just saw what you meant 6 monkeys in your first post, I meant I have offered her cash instead of paypal, was typing manically and got a bit mixed up

[DiscoDizzy]

I understand its frustrating. As a compromise why don't you offer to pay for her packaging but not the postage as that is not money should would benefit from.

[stoppinattwo]

Oh yes disco I would pay for packaging.....if she has wrapped them

[DiscoDizzy]

Good luck