Sold on Ebay, buyer is round the corner.. can I hand deliver?

Danm54 · 4 Jul 2022 at 19:55

You're still better off with £18 cash.

Ebay take 12% including postage cost. You've sold for £21 including postage so Ebay take ~£2.50 and you'd have to pay ~£3 postage. End of the day you'd get £15.50 selling though Ebay.

uber soldat · 4 Jul 2022 at 19:56

MatsyLR said:
Yes the £18 is the correct amount.
You can't expect to get the £18+£2.99 if you are not using the postal service that was purchased.

Should up the postage fee for the personal touch.

Scam · 4 Jul 2022 at 20:03

Danm54 said:
You're still better off with £18 cash.

Ebay take 12% including postage cost. You've sold for £21 including postage so Ebay take ~£2.50 and you'd have to pay ~£3 postage. End of the day you'd get £15.50 selling though Ebay.

Or I could have not told him and chucked it through the letterbox? I would have received the full £21 that he's already paid, minus £2.99 fees? So basically because I was honest I failed to make a couple extra quid? Typical!

MatsyLR said:
(snip) It wouldn't be fair at all to expect the buyer to pay the extra amount.

Except he's getting it hand delivered as opposed to lost in the postal system?

Phemo · 4 Jul 2022 at 20:04

Don't be surprised if you get a warning from Ebay at some point. I've had a warning from them for discussing pickup from someone's house once. Genuinely didn't do anything wrong but they moaned 2-3 days after the message was sent.

Efour · 4 Jul 2022 at 22:11

I did this once. Sold an item then "hand delivered it" took cash in hand. eBay wanted full percentages of everything. Its not even worth your bother. Just post it. Pay the fees move on.

teenwolf · 4 Jul 2022 at 23:39

So in the end you are ripping eBay off

Username checks out

n111ck · 4 Jul 2022 at 23:54

Should only hand deliver if they pay cash.

Feek · 5 Jul 2022 at 01:37

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Haggisman · 5 Jul 2022 at 08:13

Vince said:
Click the button that creates a qr code that the buyer scans when you deliver. It's very simple.

Ebay has this to prevent exactly the issues that could happen. Done this plenty and it works well.

It took 17 posts for the correct answer to appear? :confused:

Scam · 5 Jul 2022 at 09:45

Haggisman said:
It took 17 posts for the correct answer to appear?

Doesn't save the fees though presumably.

godinman · 5 Jul 2022 at 09:48

Uther said:
Unfortunately chances are he would say it never arrived. What a world.

Fortunately you are wrong, most people are decent human beings

Haggisman · 5 Jul 2022 at 10:04

Scam said:
Doesn't save the fees though presumably.

Not the whole fee, but it does mean not paying the fee on postage.

You seem to be confusing the buyer paying for postage vs extra profit for you.

Buyer has paid £18 for the item, that's how much you should get for it.

They've also paid £2.99 to cover your costs to post it to them.

If you deliver it in person then there are no costs to cover (you could argue your time to drop it off has a cost, but then you'd still have to take it to the post office otherwise).

However by dropping it off you will still end up better off by ~36p since you won't have to pay the 12% fees on the £2.99.

bainbridge · 5 Jul 2022 at 11:07

413x said:
How expensive is the item?

If it's like under 50 I'd do it by hand.

I did it once ages ago with an expensive item. I pretended to be a courier and got the guy to sign a piece of paper for it!

I hope you wore a uniform and acted in a hasty manner.

413x · 5 Jul 2022 at 11:08

bainbridge said:
I hope you wore a uniform and acted in a hasty manner.

Going by my local hermes delivery person wearing PJs I don't think I need to bother!

Vince · 5 Jul 2022 at 12:41

Haggisman said:
It took 17 posts for the correct answer to appear?

Seasoned ebayer now, its where I sell all my repaired and modded consoles.

- Recently breached the 500 feedbacks!!!

BananaDunka · 5 Jul 2022 at 16:01

Vince said:
Seasoned ebayer now, its where I sell all my repaired and modded consoles. - Recently breached the 500 feedbacks!!!

Pffff 707

Vince · 5 Jul 2022 at 16:26

mrk said:
Pffff 707

Rocking it out!!! im 506, 100% positive with 208 feedbacks this last 12 months. Ebay pros we are

HangTime · 5 Jul 2022 at 16:43

Scam said:
I don't think he's a scammer, he lives in a very nice road with big houses and his username is hisname1969 so he's 50-odd

Maybe he lives in a big house on a nice road because of all his ill-gotten gains from scamming, and likes 69ing with 19 year olds.

teenwolf · 5 Jul 2022 at 16:46

OP gone missing now in the buyers cellar.

Scam · 5 Jul 2022 at 16:53

teenwolf said:
OP gone missing now in the buyers cellar.

He’s sending his wife to meet me outside the pub later to make the transaction