Seller refusing to combine postage.

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I won two auction items, very light items (console games) from the same seller. I've requested total twice via ebay and I've received no reply. I then sent a message to ask, but that has also been ignored.

Postage is almost £6.00. It wouldn't cost half that to post one of the items, and I'm now receiving ebay reminders to pay.

Is there anything I can do or will I just have to stump up?

No I didn't. I couldn't even pay separately as they sent the combined invoice with no reduction.

They're now saying I got a bargain and I should be happy with the total.

I would do as butterfly suggests!

Thanks butterfly and everyone

Now to carefully extricate myself from an ebay message argument The seller is now extremely communicative after no contact at all.

That's nonsense, of course you can ask afterwards. I'm a business seller and have a constant stream of folk asking for combined postage, even after they have paid. I always oblige them because it's rude not to and really a bit naughty. I would cancel the sale if they are going to be obnoxious.

Yes, I don't understand why seller may have considered combining postage before auction close but not after.
Although they also ask where in their listing does it say they even offered combined postage. So I rather suspect they wouldn't have offered it at any point.

It's been years (the early days of ebay) since I've emailed for total prior to bidding, but I think I'll be doing that from now on, just in case.

I'm getting caps lock shouty messages now. I'm not engaging with that!

Ok, firstly you have paid so they can't take any action against you.
You need to open an item not received case with PayPal, for two reasons. 1 to get your refund and 2 to make sure your seller gets a nice defect.

Do not agree to a mutual cancellation!

File a non performing seller report with eBay.

Leave your negs with one star across the board as butterfly says, 8 days apart.

Your seller has completely overreacted.

They've already just refunded via paypal. No request to cancel yet, but I suppose that will follow. Can I still refuse to agree to a mutual cancellation?

Yes refuse any cancellation attempted from them. Shame they refunded but you can still file non performing seller.
Keep your negs simple so as to avoid removal, something like "asked for combined postage and seller refused to sell"