Epay postage

I have just just won the highest bid on some computer memory on Epay.

I have noticed a trend on Epay that a lot sellers charge excessive postage, perhaps to compensate for low prices achieved.

This seller is no different, wants to charge me $10 for 2 small sticks of laptop memory from NSW.

When I queried him, his response was "well you got the memory cheap". Which I did, but he had a $1.00 opening bid and the final price was under $20.00, I had actually bid more, but that is where it stopped.

I am not saying that the total price is not still a good deal, BUT I object strongly to being charged $10 postage for a parcel under 100 gr.

What would you guys do in my position?

For this transaction, I'd pay the money and then I'd look at the postage cost before I put a bid in.

Some of the things I've looked at have had $40+ postage from Hong Kong.

I agree with Grunt.
These sellers do cover their cost with excessive postage, but they do tell you up front, so you can't really complain (or at least no one will listen).
Good luck,
TM

I can top that, for a wifi sled for my pda, I was just quoted $75 US for the postagefrom the USA , when I can get it sent from a number of various retailers in the USA and they charge $25 US postage:? :? :? What the................

It can depend who you deal with and where they are shipping from (for OS stuff anyway)

I bought some plastic containers for telescope eyepieces from a supplier in the US and it cost me $US19 for postage (just on 7 days) for a fairly large but light parcel.
There was another supplier who had the same items at a slightly cheaper price but wanted to charge $US75 for
shipping. This seemed to be their standard shipping charge for any item.

Another time, I bought some astronomy stuff from Italy and payed $A98 for shipping. Based on size and weight, it would have cost around $A30 to to send the same package from Sydney to Milan.

I bought a shaper cutter, probably about 1Kg from the states, he only charged me $US9.00 postage, and it arrived in about a week. I was astounded. (in a good way:p)
TM

Those resellers that use US Mail can do it quite cheap but the incidence of theft is considerably higher than Fed Ex. Fed Ex to Australia is in the order of $75.

Chris

Fair enough, I didn't specify which carrier she used so maybe it would be coming airmail by fedex, the wifi sled for my pda is only small (size of a mobile phone). Postage can be a killer.

It does pay to get the postage specified up front to avoid misunderstandings.:rolleyes: :wink:

I wasn't talking about parcels from the US but from NSW to Vic Australia.

100gr for $10, bit rich.

Seriously considering not going through with the deal.

Same sellers' last sale was a DVD, which he sold for $0.99 and charged $4.00 postage which I consider a fair charge.

Sorry to hijack the thread.

I posted a parcel today to Tasmania it was under 100g (spring for the cassette of a angle bradder nail gun) and it was $3.85 plus the envelope I purchased in store.

$10 sounds like you are being charged for handling costs as well.

$4.00 is a fair charge.

If this helps here is a link to calculation of postage weights:

http://www1.auspost.com.au/pac/aus_parcel.asp

You can calculate the weight and "negotiate" - good luck.

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Originally Posted by felixe

Sorry to hijack the thread.

I posted a parcel today to Tasmania it was under 100g (spring for the cassette of a angle bradder nail gun) and it was $3.85 plus the envelope I purchased in store.

$10 sounds like you are being charged for handling costs as well.

$4.00 is a fair charge.

If this helps here is a link to calculation of postage weights:

http://www1.auspost.com.au/pac/aus_parcel.asp

You can calculate the weight and "negotiate" - good luck.

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Thanks Felixe, yes I am aware of the Aust Post site, have sold a fair bit on Epay and always charged the postage cost plus maybe for a bigger Jiffy bag.

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Originally Posted by felixe

Fair enough, I didn't specify which carrier she used so maybe it would be coming airmail by fedex, the wifi sled for my pda is only small (size of a mobile phone). Postage can be a killer.

It does pay to get the postage specified up front to avoid misunderstandings.:rolleyes: :wink:

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I always query postage costs from overseas before bidding, usually so high that it stops you from bidding.

What did his listing say about postage costs?

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Originally Posted by martrix

What did his listing say about postage costs?

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It didn't.

My advice is to pay the postage. The $6 isn't worth the negative feedback.