Buying stuff from ebay
Posted: 14th Jan 08, 02:38How do folks
Bit of a quandry here regarding buying stuff from ebay and I know some of you cheeky little blighters are known to dabble in a bit of ebay trading from time to time so i figured I'd ask you lot.
Ive bought a fair few things from ebay in my time and never once had any problems up until today when i bought two Soul Asylum t-shirts from a guy in the states, his rating seems pretty good so I figured it'd be okay to do business with him so to speak, so i bought them with the buy now choice and paid 29.97 in US dollars through paypal, got the email to say the money had been recieved fine, no problem there
Now Ive just had an email from the guy saying he wants an extra eight dollars for combined packing and postage but there was nothing on his page saying that this would be required, i know 8 dollars is only about four quid but surely thats not the done thing surely combing the orders would be slightly cheaper and the price your given at the end through the buy now option is the price you pay as its a binding contract,
I've emailed the guy back saying that it wasnt shown on his page that extra money would be required for combing the orders, is it really necessary and if it is I'm not happy that it wasnt clear.
The only thing i can think of is that he's trying to pull one over on me as he may think im new to ebay as I had to sign up a new account as i couldnt remember which email address id signed up with or what my login name or password was as it'd been about six months since i last used it.
Now what i need advice on is.........., took me long enough to get to asking the question didnt it............do i wait for his reply to my email, see what he says and then contact ebay/paypal about it to cancel my order and get my money back or just give him the money?
Bit of a quandry here regarding buying stuff from ebay and I know some of you cheeky little blighters are known to dabble in a bit of ebay trading from time to time so i figured I'd ask you lot.
Ive bought a fair few things from ebay in my time and never once had any problems up until today when i bought two Soul Asylum t-shirts from a guy in the states, his rating seems pretty good so I figured it'd be okay to do business with him so to speak, so i bought them with the buy now choice and paid 29.97 in US dollars through paypal, got the email to say the money had been recieved fine, no problem there
Now Ive just had an email from the guy saying he wants an extra eight dollars for combined packing and postage but there was nothing on his page saying that this would be required, i know 8 dollars is only about four quid but surely thats not the done thing surely combing the orders would be slightly cheaper and the price your given at the end through the buy now option is the price you pay as its a binding contract,
I've emailed the guy back saying that it wasnt shown on his page that extra money would be required for combing the orders, is it really necessary and if it is I'm not happy that it wasnt clear.
The only thing i can think of is that he's trying to pull one over on me as he may think im new to ebay as I had to sign up a new account as i couldnt remember which email address id signed up with or what my login name or password was as it'd been about six months since i last used it.
Now what i need advice on is.........., took me long enough to get to asking the question didnt it............do i wait for his reply to my email, see what he says and then contact ebay/paypal about it to cancel my order and get my money back or just give him the money?
