Postage costs?

[Tidey]

I know, if you don't like it, don't bid, and I'm not going to. I've seen a really lovely t-shirt for sale that I would've bid on for DD had the seller not been charging so much for postage. Even taking into account the cost of envelope, posting, and even the time it takes to go to a post office, it seems like a massive rip-off for someone to charge £3.95 to send an age 2-3y t-shirt, by 2nd class.

Surely if you suspect your item might only get one bid, you should have a higher starting price rather than rip people off on the P&P?

A small t-shirt would probably be able to go large letter if folded small. £3.95 is far to much.
Doubt anyone will bid with that postage. But the seller will hope to gain money by charging high postage!

That's an outrageous price, it would have put me off too. £2 max I reckon.

Huge rip off!!! I posted a tshirt aged 3-4 to another MNtter yetserday and it cost 66p for first class!!!!!

I have a friend who routinely charges £4 to send single items of clothing. She justifies it by saying it allows her to start bidding aat 99p. She's received a fair bit of neutral feedback from it and has a dreadful postage star rating so in the end, not worth it.

It winds me up when people start talking about the cost of posting and then include things like petrol to get to the post office to justify massive overcharging. I once had someone charge me about £5 for posting something that cost less than £2 to post. When I queried it, she wittered on about the time and effort she put into ironing the things, wrapping them in tissue... etc. I'd have much rather she stuck it in a reused jiffy, charged me the actual postage rounded up to the nearest pound or whatever most people seem to do.

Exactly, Tryharder! I don't really agree with people adding money onto P&P to account for their time or petrol or a sandwich to work up the energy to walk to the post office etc. Some sellers act like they're doing you a massive favour by posting you the item you've paid for, seems a bit off to me. I've only ever charged for the envelope and the cost of postage, and quite often undercharge on it.

I think adding up to a pound for the cost of packing is fair, but anymore than that is cheeky.

My experience is low postage you get bids. Unless it is a fantastic item that everyone wants.

I try and keep everything flat and within A4. In most cases I get my postage around £2. I post 2nd class also and a simple t-shirt should be around £1.20 ish.

I think £1 profit is far too much. P&P = postage and packaging - you dont buy new clothing on-line and expect to overpay. I saw a childs Boden t-shirt once with £4 P&p, Boden charge that for a box full.

What makes me laugh still is I have 100%, yet my P&P is 4.7/5.0....what nutter marked me down on that?