Has postage gone up?

[EverDon Tiling]

Just looking for a dry pressure testing kit on flee bay and came across this postage seems a little high to me.

BOURDON SEDEME Pressure Testing Kit, Used in good conditon | eBay

 

[Bubblecraft]

See this a lot when item is out of stock. It saves cancelling the listing & re-posting once in stock.

 

[Musivarius]

I've just reported this to eBay, I fail to see why I should keep within the guidelines when you have jokes like this on there. This is my Sunday morning sense of humour failure. rrr:

 

[Concrete guy]

See this a lot when item is out of stock. It saves cancelling the listing & re-posting once in stock.

It's listed in that way to avoid fees.

Ebay charge 10% final value fee on the sale price, but that excludes postage charges.

 

[Bubblecraft]

What is the actual value of one of these kits?

 

[EverDon Tiling]

What is the actual value of one of these kits?

not sure i was looking for a 15mm dry pressure testing kit there normally around £25 but i just noticed the p&p on this one.

 

[Bubblecraft]

I thought that would be the kind of price for these. The P&P is a tad high lol

 

[Alan M]

i presume we are loking at the same item.
it says 4.99 for the item opening bid and 13.50 for shipping.

it is based in ireland so it would have to be shipped across.
i often buy from ebay and have to pay that in courior charges.
unfortunitly there isnt much you can do . thats the cost of shipping.

i was buying some empty festool systainers last year.
d and m tools wanted 145 euro to ship,
axminister wanted around 100
bunnies bolts woulnt ever quote
power tools gb (rexcrystals) shipped for 8 GBP:hurray:

shop around
and if its a dear quote ask the seller to ring round the couriors and say you will too
when you get other couriors involved (or they think ther areother quotes comming in) then it is amazing how much cheaper it becomes

 

[Bubblecraft]

i presume we are loking at the same item.
it says 4.99 for the item opening bid and 13.50 for shipping.

it is based in ireland so it would have to be shipped across.
i often buy from ebay and have to pay that in courior charges.
unfortunitly there isnt much you can do . thats the cost of shipping.

i was buying some empty festool systainers last year.
d and m tools wanted 145 euro to ship,
axminister wanted around 100
bunnies bolts woulnt ever quote
power tools gb (rexcrystals) shipped for 8 GBP:hurray:

shop around
and if its a dear quote ask the seller to ring round the couriors and say you will too
when you get other couriors involved (or they think ther areother quotes comming in) then it is amazing how much cheaper it becomes

No, P&P on the item is EUR 3,999.00 (£3,309.81)

 

[Musivarius]

Maybe someone swims over with it, the postage is for support craft etc:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Alan M]

its only 13.50 euro on the .co.uk site.
i clicked the link the OP posted.
not sure where you see 3999 euro.
it is offered less the box for less

 

[Gazzer]

this is the .co.uk screen

 

[afright]

Yes that p&p is right its delivered by Royal Mail thats there new first class rate why its so high is that Royal mail will lose it and it will travel round the world three times before you get it in 2015.

 

[Bubblecraft]

 

[Alan M]

for some reson i cant post a pic . but i dont see that . the shipping is 13.50 .

can i email the screen shot and you post it

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for some reson i cant post a pic . but i dont see that . the shipping is 13.50 .

can i email the screen shot and you post it

 

[Bubblecraft]

Sure. gus @ coupleatools dot com

 

[Alan M]

that email isnt working

 

[Dan]

Alan, you're seeing it as cheap because you're in Ireland, where the item is.
The guy has entered a silly amount for international shipping, but has kept the normal postage for local, meaning Ireland.

Also, he's physically entered that, that's not an automated eBay guestimate or anything like that.

You get to enter a shipping price, and then if you click 'ship internationally' you get extra postage options where you can set an additional postage charge. So he's just done that and entered 3999 - probably because he doesn't want to ship internationally but didn't realise he's clicked the 'ship internationally' button.

Or perhaps he's checked the box for Northen Ireland and eBay has forced him therefore to select ship internationally, and because he doesn't want to mess around shipping to Britain or elsewhere, he's entered a silly postage amount.

Item location shows as Wicklow, Ireland.


[h=3]Postage and packaging[/h]

Item location: Greystones, Wicklow, Ireland
Postage to: Worldwide

 

[Bubblecraft]

that email isnt working

PM'd

 

[Alan M]

but at the very end he says shipping to the uk with no box is 10.50 euro .
so he knew what he was doing.
i only wanted to post the pic to show the difference

 

[Dan]

Shows as 3999 Euros when United Kingdom is selected from the dropdown in the postage area for me mate.

 

[Bubblecraft]

Posting this up for Alan

 

[Alan M]

thanks bubblecraft.
its finally up. doesnt change anything thow