Here is my mini rant. I scooped up 5 ponies on ebay for .99 cents each. For some reason no one BIN'ed them and so in the last few minutes I placed bids for their starting price of .99 cents. I won all 5 ponies for .99 cents each. Shipping was stated at $4 so I waited for my invoice to get the combined rate.

Shock! The seller sends me an email saying, get this, they took 25% off the $20 ($4 x 5 ponies) and my shipping is only $15 now. From Florida to California to ship 5 ponies Priority mail is only $6.00 ($4.73 for Parcel Post). I checked. I boxed up 5 heavier ponies with bubble wrap, weighed it and then checked on usps.com Some sellers suck. I refuse to pay that much extra shipping because their auctions did lousy. It's not my fault I got a good deal. You win some, you lose some.

If they don't reduce the rate then I will email them a link to ebay's policy about overcharging to make up for low ending auctions. Last resort I will turn them in. I really don't care if I get a negative over this. Thanks for hearing my (maybe more than mini, lol!) rant.

PS Oh yea, I can get them sent Priority mail, according to the seller, for $20 and Express mail for $50.

I know this seller, BM. They do it for ALL their auctions, even the ones that you BIN. I was in sticker shock, but paid it and even left positive feedback because I guess that I was angry with myself for not asking first what combined shipping would be. But I will tell you this, I will NEVER buy another of this person's auctions (even though my ponies were very, very minty). I just don't understand what this person is thinking. (And my parcel came and they paid a whopping $4.55 for shipping!)

I hope that they will agree to reduce the shipping fees for you.

That's good to know jeni. Thanks! Sorry you had to go through this also. I don't get people like this.

Eesh. That's too bad. I HATE overpriced shipping rates. There are several ponies I've passed up who were being sold at reasonable prices with unreasonable S&H.

It seams the norm these days. I asked for shipping quoats on some Stress balls we wanted to get for a guy at work. Now they would be lucky to weigh 100g and the sellers quoated between $5 and a wopping $15. I make a habit of asking first these days. and if the Seller dosn't get back to me before the aucion finishes then too bad no sale.

That stinks, BM! I hope they give you a more reasonable shipping rate! Can you post the sellers ebay ID? I want to make sure I steer clear of them in the future!

Yes, please let me know their ID as well. I was looking at several .99 auctions and want to see if it's the ones I was really wanting.

Do you think they will refund you if you pay, they ship the ponies and you take a picture of the shipping label?

that sucks! ALOT of the sellers that have DVD's ill have a BIN of say $10 and then will hit you with $25 shiping to ship it media mail! some jerk charged me $50 to ship 2 DVD boxsets media mail. I was less then pleased

Oh my gosh that's terrible BM!! I'm so sorry you have to deal with that person. I'm also glad that you're willing to turn them in. That seller should definitely not be getting away with that. :nervous:

I think I know which seller you're speaking of. A few weeks ago I helped them ID a few of their ponies and told them how to describe their ponies. That shipping is outrageous, and I'd complain too if I were you.

I even ended up paying a seller for the pony and telling her to keep it as it wouldnt have been worth the money to have it shipped!
are you allowed to name the seller? i would be interested to know just incase

Thanks for all your kind words guys! It makes me feel a little better.


This seller won't respond to my three emails now. I have showed them what USPS said shipping should be (copied and pasted) and I sent them (copy and paste) what ebay has to say about this.

In their email they sent, they also told me that I had 48 hours to pay. This was not listed in any of their auctions. There's no way they can do that. They are trying to pressure me to pay them when they know they have overcharged me.

I will post their name but I was hoping to get their decision first. I'll stay in touch.

Thanks!

I had a similar problem a month or so back. It was the first time I didn't ask for a shipping quote before bidding. I won 8 ponies (5 adult, 1 baby and 1 McD's) and they wanted to charge $15. I checked out the postal service web site and it said it would be $9 at the most. When it got here actual shipping was $6.
Luckily I had worked somthing out with them and only sent $9. I didn't ask for a refund mostly because I was sick of dealing with them and the ponies were all NM which was way better than expected.

I hope that they are willing to work somethin out. It really ticks me off whrn people overcharge for shipping.

I dont think you will be able to win the case and you will end up having to pay the amount the buyer stated. The reason is this:
The seller disclosed the shipping price in the auction. ( Said the price was 4.00 ) and you agreed to purchase the item with that shipping
and the seller did give a discount on combined shipping of 25 % which they dont have to do, ( Did they say they combine shipments for a discount?) In ebay's eyes they did nothing wrong since all of this was disclosed. And when you purchased the ponies, you agreed to those terms. There is a huge leway when it comes to the "Handling" fees that can be applied shipments.
At least, this is what happened to me when I was charged 20.00 for 4 ponies. Rule of thumb, always ask for what the combine shipping rate would be.