What would you do if you had bought this item off ebay and...

~Divine~Wind~ said:
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Reread it.
Did you email the seller before bidding asking if he would post, he said yes and asked for £8.50.
You paid this and then hes asking for more?
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This is what happened ^^

I will probably send him the extra money to cover the costs but still think over £20 is a joke for a parcel.
 
Yeah, ask for a scanned copy of the receipt. If it does cost what he said it did, then pay it.
Oh, and what was the item?
 
arknor said:
pay up then?

i sent a traxxas slash and it cost £16 with parcel force i can imagine royal mail beeing a lot more.

the guy did you a favour if i was him i would have told you to arrange a courier at your expensive to collect it though wich would have avoided all the hassle
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I will pay up. I have bought 2 more this month and I have payed £7 and £10 for them because the were delivered by courier one was UPS the other was city link.

I was only asking for opinions on the matter :p
 
I'm Just getting back into R/C Nitro and it was a savage that I used to have years ago so I purchased another one. I was just stocking up on spares buying a few broken ones.
 
The seller quoted £8.50, but then realised when he was about to post the item it was going to cost more, the seller at that point should have refused to post the item and double checked with the buyer how much postage is going to be and should have requested the extra amount.

The buyer paid what he was quoted for shipping, end of story.
 
He should have come back to you and said he couldn't post it unless you paid what it was going to cost, at which point you'd have said yeah go ahead... so I'd pay. Nothing he's done has been for any reason other than to help you I feel.
 
I say offer half of what the additional postage is so about 6 quid. He helped you by posting it instead of collection and he should have told you the amount it would have cost before sending it.
 
Pay him the full postage. However let him know that you can get accurate postage pricing on the Royal Mail website and that he should use it in future.
 
labcoattech said:
The seller quoted £8.50, but then realised when he was about to post the item it was going to cost more, the seller at that point should have refused to post the item and double checked with the buyer how much postage is going to be and should have requested the extra amount.

The buyer paid what he was quoted for shipping, end of story.
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It sounds like he wanted to save you time and just go ahead and pay the full price, and he trusted you to pay him back later.
I would never trust someone in that way on ebay! :P
 
If you had agreed a price for postage, then I would say don't pay because he probably overpackaged it :p

Maybe meet in the middle?
 
Had the exact same happen with a member on here in the MM. I stated CityLink courier at something like £10 but he made a big song and doo daa about sending it via Special Delivery, so I did him a favour, which also meant I had to go to the post office rather than having it collected, only to be charged like £16 ... I sent it anyway, emailed the guy via trust and said look, this is how much it cost and showed him the receipt, and he basically told me no chance, that's what we agreed. Needless to say, I wont sell him to again, miserable ****
 
If you check the post office price and it's about what he says I would pay it, it might not have been possible or would have been a real hassle for him to confirm with you the higher price i.e. he was on his way to work or someone had given him a lift, needed to use public transport etc.
 
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