Postage costs

[Dolliedaydream]

I won an item for £4.50 and paid £3.20 postage. It is small lightweight fabric, well wrapped in plastic bin liner type wrapping and sellotaped, arrived 1st class, postage priced at £1.20. I wouldn't say the packaging or time / effort amounted to much and the seller lives in a major city with easy post office access.
As I wanted the item and there were other bidders I accepted the postage costs but it is well over 2 x the real cost. Would I be an unreasonable stingy old cow to ask for some refund or just swallow it? Thanks for any input.

I think paying nearly 3 times over the odds is greedy and you are perfectly reasonable to ask for a partial refund on the postage. Overcharging by that amount is fee avoidance and against eBay rules.

Youve paid it now, you should have questioned it beforehand. I wouldn't refund you.

Some people bump up the postage costs because they've put the item on for cheaper than they would have liked, not right I suppose but if people are willing to pay...

Agree with fergoose. You can always ask, if they are reasonable they will see your POV. Otherwise I would give them crappy feedback. They would deserve it.

yes but the buyer paid £3.50 not knowing it would only cost £1.20 and be sent in a binbag! You are not going to know the actual cost until you receive the parcel. I would not be willing to pay £3.50 if the service I received was only a third of that - plus it is against the rules to bump up postage and have a cheaper item.