collection charge WTF

[chris1804]

im after a new sofa, seen one that is right on my door step so i can collect it but check this out they say delivery is £69 but if you want to collect it its £25,


WTF ive never known a company charge you so you can collect the goods?
ive just sent them a email saying ill pay the £279but i aint paying the £25 just so i can collect it,

heres the link (they have ran out of brown thats wha the missus wants)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...id=p2761.l1259

[Das]

Yes some people on Ebay do charge for you to pick items up. This is because some sellers make money off of carriage charges(which is against Ebay policy) They sell items as cheap as they can to make it look good and sell more, they pay fee's to ebay for listing and final sale price, but they don't pay fee's on the P&P. report them to Ebay if you want but on the listing he doesn't mention a £25 fee to pick up the item, id suggest that even more he's trying to make money from the Delivery charges. TBH £275 is not a bad priced for a 3+2.

[Grumpy1954]

Never heard of that either, robbing so and so's!

[mhvcbv]

hi
it is unfair but it does say in the listing £25 pick up charge

[Grumpy1954]

Yes some people on Ebay do charge for you to pick items up. This is because some sellers make money off of carriage charges(which is against Ebay policy) They sell items as cheap as they can to make it look good and sell more, they pay fee's to ebay for listing and final sale price, but they don't pay fee's on the P&P. report them to Ebay if you want but on the listing he doesn't mention a £25 fee to pick up the item, id suggest that even more he's trying to make money from the Delivery charges. TBH £275 is not a bad priced for a 3+2.

Yes, aware of the low price high P&P scam, hadn't realised this was an ebay item. Proving it breaks the rules would be hard, and it's been my experience that ebay, despite all the customer fair play waffle, don't actually give a monkeys as long as they're getting their slice of the action.

[chris1804]

when i read the listing and seen £25 i thought they take yhour old one away for £25 so i droped her a email and she said no collection in person is £25, ill wait for her to reply to the message because i dont mind paying the £279 because i think its a good price but knowing that ill have to pay £25 to collect it will **** me off i know all in all its £304 wich is still a good price but as i said its knowing that ive paid £25 to collect it is mad

[Das]

Yes, aware of the low price high P&P scam, hadn't realised this was an ebay item. Proving it breaks the rules would be hard, and it's been my experience that ebay, despite all the customer fair play waffle, don't actually give a monkeys as long as they're getting their slice of the action.

Correct. I know a lot of people here call it Fleabay, but to most sellers its called Feebay because of the high charges. As you say proving it is the difficult bit.

edit: I didn't noticed the £25 charge was listed in the description, normally its stated in the postage area of the listing.

[Leemarksmith]

Correct. I know a lot of people here call it Fleabay, but to most sellers its called Feebay because of the high charges. As you say proving it is the difficult bit.

edit: I didn't noticed the £25 charge was listed in the description, normally its stated in the postage area of the listing.

Its in the listing and in black... Funny the other charges have been listed in red

[chris1804]

the women calls it handling fees,,, pmsl make you laugh whos gonna be handling it ME so im would be paying £25 si i can carry it, lol just had reply off the women this is what she says :

handling charges are just for bringing the sofas to the collection point ready for the customers which we have to pay the couriers thats why we have the charge for collection, we will have to ask the manager monday morning regarding the £25 thank you kind regards emma x


so i bet you when i go down there tuesday this sofa is more in price than the ebay price

[Das]

Just pay it all through PayPal, that way at least they are paying fee's on everything.