Thread: Seller's handling fees.

The last fews times I have bought somthing on ebay the seller's have added on handling fee's. Now I feel that these fee's should be listed in the auction and not after the auction ends. Why do sellers get to charge whatever they choose, one time it was for $18.00 and another time $14.00 both times the charge was just as much as the shipping and my items required no special packaging in fact the one for $14.00 was put into an envelope. Grrrrrrrr

If I understand you correctly you're saying that a seller charged you $18.00 one time and $14.00 another time for handling fees in addition to the shipping charges ? I would have to leave negative feedback after I reported them to ebay...... unless I had bought a refrigerator.

Yes that is correct, Ebay allows the seller to add handling fee's after the auction ends. I'm so fu**** sick of getting hosed on inflated shipping costs.

wow, that's the first time i've heard of such practices
mind you, i don't often buy on ebay
i usually just get charged with what they put down under shipping costs..
can't you dispute that and say to the vendor that there has been a miscommunication with the shipping & handling costs and negotiate with him?

Last time I refused to pay so the seller dropped his handling fee in half again I refused to pay I simply did not want to do business with them after pulling that. Took an unpaid item strike on that one.

I've never heard of that either. I thought all fees had to be stated. I once had a seller try to make me pay tax without the auction stating it - I protested and the seller dropped it. I had another seller tell me point blank that she jacked up her shipping to cover ebay fees, paypal fees, packing materials, and her time to go to the post office. She actually said something along the lines of "Is time free where you come from?" when I asked about the massive difference between the shipping cost I was charged and the postage fee on the box.

Imo, it's all BS. Buyers bid what they want to pay, sellers have to pay the "overhead;" if sellers don't like it they should set reserves instead of weasling more money out of the buyers in backhanded ways. Then again, I always consider shipping costs when I bid, and I only really have a problem with it when shipping prices are high and packing is substandard.

Just remember sellers can add these fee's after you have won their item. IMO they use this to recoupe Ebay's fee and paypal fee's or if the item ended and they didn't like the final price.

I had no idea sellers could add handling fees on ebay. Is this ebay usa or somewhere else?

Always good to check feedback on the seller

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Imo, it's all BS. Buyers bid what they want to pay, sellers have to pay the "overhead;" if sellers don't like it they should set reserves instead of weasling more money out of the buyers in backhanded ways.

+1
it just happened to me recently as well
i got a ebay not paid notice, so i rang the seller and said i didn't want to buy this item anymore because the way he conducted his business
the non payment from ebay was removed
we shouldn't have to take this sorta BS
buyers have rights too

This is ebay.com

Originally Posted by jimmyfingers

I had no idea sellers could add handling fees on ebay. Is this ebay usa or somewhere else?

Always good to check feedback on the seller