slater
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Posts: 6,390
Club RR Member Number: 78
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eBay do tend to penalise you for not doing 'free shipping'. The bonus also from the business POV is that you can include it in the price, then you don't have to discount charging postage multiple times on the same order. I'm not sure what it has to do with drivers, though? “Free” postage is a pain in the posterior if you want to buy multiple items and the seller is awkward. I’m all for paying £5 if it translated to £1 for the item and £4 for postage if it saves me time/fuel/resources, but I’m not happy about spending £20 for four £1 items that will have been packaged together won’t have cost any more to post than the £4 a single item would have. EBay’s system, after all these years, should be better able to cope with things than it is. Ebay has a function to allow sellers to give discounts for multiple purchases. This can be used to address that issue if the seller wants to. At the end of the day its up to the seller how they want to market thier stuff. There are benefits to offering free post on ebay but it's more for people running ebay shops and what not than your casual ebayer.
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glenanderson
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Club RR Member Number: 64
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A case in point yesterday. Clips for the covers of a fluorescent light fitting. £1.99 each, with free p&p. Reasonable if I just needed one.
Based on a minimum postage cost of at least £1 for an envelope and a 2nd class stamp, and eBay/PayPal’s fees, the seller can’t be netting more than 50p an item.
I need a dozen. That equates to £23.88 the way it’s been set up. No way I’m paying that.
Emailed the seller politely to ask about purchasing 12. No response; so no sale.
It’s either greed or incompetence. Either way, they’ve lost a customer.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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slater
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Posts: 6,390
Club RR Member Number: 78
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Well exactly. If they are not the cheapest you ship elsewhere. That's nothing to do with ebay tho that's the seller not being competitive.
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melle
South West
It'll come out in the wash.
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Jul 22, 2020 18:48:00 GMT
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I saw a taxi delivering parcels in my street today and the driver looked like he was in a rush. It was a fairly new Mercedes E-Class, probably owned by the bank... Yesterday morning I saw what looked like a ParcelForce subcontractor (plain white van, no uniform just a PF vest) make a delivery, and more than 10 hours later I saw him here again. There's also a DPC driver round here who I always see running, literally running, to and from his van, often pretty late. I can't help but feel for these guys.
On the positive, Yodel now apparently subcontract to a company that operates tricycles, which I think is great in a city (Bath) with way too much air pollution for its size. Behind our flat is a self-storage company and in the mornings a Yodel van comes to drop off a load of parcels, which a couple of guys then deliver in town I imagine.
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