To expect a P&P discount if i buy 4 items from same seller on Ebay?

[raffyandted]

Sorry, but this seller has just got right on my nerves. She is selling four pairs of boy's Boden shorts. I wanted to bid on all four pairs. She is charging £3.50 per pair P&P, which I think is a bit hefty (considering I sold the same shorts a few weeks ago & they only cost £1.60 to post first class).

I sent polite email enquiring if she would do a P&P discount if i won more than one pair.
Got reply: "I can do you a 10% discount on the total. It's too complicated to combine P&P unless you do it at the outset"

Well, actually it's not hard at all but ok, it's her choice (thinks I). I wasn't exactly sure what she meant by the "total" though, so I replied (again, politely) apologising for seeming a bit thick & asking did she mean 10% off the total including P&P, or 10% of the total of just the items? Because at £3.50 P&P per pair, that's going to make a big difference on four pairs.

Just had this reply: "Hi,10% of total bill.
It's the best I can do. If they were sold to different individuals I wounld't have to offer any discount."

Am I being unreasonable to think that was really rude? She sounds like I'm being a complete nuisance by being interested in more than one of her items & i'm eating into her profit or something by expecting a bit of a reduction in (over-priced) P&P.

I know I shouldn't, but sent a shirty reply saying that after that comment I won't be bidding on any of her items, so good luck with selling them 'individually'. Humbug!

YANBU for being annoyed but she can do what she wants really.

I always combine if I can and only charge what p&p costs, I dont try and profit from p&p at all (arnt I the little ebay angel?)

I did have someone ask me once and I had to say no. The two items were denim and were quite heavy. I sent them in the same package but the postage was the same.

She is being greedy but maybe she is a bit scared of the combining, discounting thing (hence the easy 10% figure). I was a bit like that at first but once I got the hang of ebay I realised it was easy peasy.

TBH if it were me I would tell her you didnt want them. She could make a complaint but I think you have made a reasonable request.

Sorry, just realised that was a long post and all I had to say was YANBU

Two words

Fee avoidance

Yanbu. Tis rude

LOL at woodenchair's concise answer after my long waffly one

Thank you both. I feel SO much better now I know I am not just a grumpy old witch.

Chegirl, I'm a bit like you, I price the P&P reasonably & if someone asks me to combine P&P and it works out that I can do it and still cover the cost, then I do. I prefer it if someone buys more than one thing from me cos I don't have to faff around with so much packing & trips to the P.O.

By the way I haven't actually bought them. I would never bid on something and THEN ask for a discount on P&P, that's not very 'Ebay'

But I did email back saying I wouldn't be bidding on them after that comment, thank you very much. Just because I felt like it.

Good for you! Silly cow missed out on an easy sale.

Ha Ha. Ebay is pretty slow at the moment and with all this rain she may not sell them!