Ebay postage rant mixed with a question at the end

bpb101

im from dublin. i want to buy a product on ebay. so i go to ebay.IE
i click on the product from the uk. and after wastimg my time , i realise no no no they wont send to anybody outside the uk .
click on another person and again uk only
and again
then i come to a guy and want to charge me 10 euros or free colect in person (so handy) to send it to me
this is f ucking the stuiptist thing about ebay [rant over, here the Question]

Anybody agree that you should be able to chose max postage rate and filter out the people who will only ship uk?

edit : sorry about poll Question , was cut off

du Maurier

bpb101 wrote: »

im from dublin. i want to buy a product on ebay. so i go to ebay.IE
i click on the product from the uk. and after wastimg my time , i realise no no no they wont send to anybody outside the uk .
click on another person and again uk only
and again
then i come to a guy and want to charge me 10 euros or free colect in person (so handy) to send it to me
this is f ucking the stuiptist thing about ebay [rant over, here the Question]

Anybody agree that you should be able to chose max postage rate and filter out the people who will only ship uk?

I'm not so sure about the Maximum postage rate, as there's too much logistics as it were about a person's rate, but I understand where you're coming from - some people are just out to make an a buck extra for postage, and I've always wished a concurring amount for postage taking into account weight and country for distribution.

The shipping outside X country should definitely be looked into too. Too often have I bid only for certain settings to be not implemented for the bidding process, even after the seller has been contacted and was fine with shipping outside their own country.

nava

bpb101 wrote: »

im from dublin. i want to buy a product on ebay. so i go to ebay.IE
i click on the product from the uk. and after wastimg my time , i realise no no no they wont send to anybody outside the uk .
click on another person and again uk only

Agree with you on the above if you search on ebay.ie it should show only products that ship to Ireland, also have to say I do find most sellers that listed as post to UK only if contacted they will post to Ireland

bpb101 wrote: »

and again
then i come to a guy and want to charge me 10 euros or free colect in person (so handy) to send it to me
this is f ucking the stuiptist thing about ebay [rant over, here the Question]

Anybody agree that you should be able to chose max postage rate and filter out the people who will only ship uk?

If you go to Advance Search you can filter by Items "Available to", "Located in" not filter for postage as far as I know.

bpb101

du Maurier wrote: »

I'm not so sure about the Maximum postage rate, as there's too much logistics as it were about a person's rate, but I understand where you're coming from - some people are just out to make an a buck extra for postage, and I've always wished a concurring amount for postage taking into account weight and country for distribution.

The shipping outside X country should definitely be looked into too. Too often have I bid only for certain settings to be not implemented for the bidding process, even after the seller has been contacted and was fine with shipping outside their own country.

im sure if you contact them and ask them will they ship ire they will. But if it is a bid. ending in a hour, there no point

du Maurier

bpb101 wrote: »

im sure if you contact them and ask them will they ship ire they will. But if it is a bid. ending in a hour, there no point

Oh I understand that. I was just saying that if you had contacted them well in advance of the auction end and they acquiesced with sending it to outside their country, that most sellers forget to change the settings to allow an outside bidder from what they have stipulated.

It's little things like that. I think the settings shouldn't be structured as such. For example, there have been countless sellers in the UK that have stipulated that they don't send worldwide or outside the UK but were more than amenable to ROI customers to send there. It's happened too often not to think that this hasn't been highlighted enough by ebay.

bpb101

another thing one seller says in his t&c that you must have a register ebay address.
but how do you do that
i have only got a laser and topping up my bank trandsfer. they say somthing about adding a credit card or in usa by mail..
what's the deal.

du Maurier

You need to link your card via Paypal. A credit card is only accepted as far as I know.

bpb101

du Maurier wrote: »

You need to link your card via Paypal. A credit card is only accepted as far as I know.

yea that what i thought , so what the deal?

aujopimur

bpb101 wrote: »

yea that what i thought , so what the deal?

Log on to paypal, take from there

aujopimur

du Maurier wrote: »

Oh I understand that. I was just saying that if you had contacted them well in advance of the auction end and they acquiesced with sending it to outside their country, that most sellers forget to change the settings to allow an outside bidder from what they have stipulated.

It's little things like that. I think the settings shouldn't be structured as such. For example, there have been countless sellers in the UK that have stipulated that they don't send worldwide or outside the UK but were more than amenable to ROI customers to send there. It's happened too often not to think that this hasn't been highlighted enough by ebay.

+1

Little Alex

I've never really had that particular issue myself, but I think that eBay should have a "wishlist". Maybe where if they notice that customers consistently mail them asking why it isn't possible to do such and such a thing, that they should put it up as a thread for people to vote on.

My pet hate is sellers who refuse to send stuff abroad. I never again want to be disappointed by seeing stuff they have for sale and get a curt reply back from them saying that they don't ship abroad. I want an ignore list for such dolts.