Hi again..

firstly...why do a lot of sellers think they can make a few extra quid out of postage ??

somthing very lightweight sent second class for less than 50p, auction states 1st class £2.50..

nice profit..

you see it everywhere, in CB radios, the average CB will cost around £8 to post, so why charge £10 or more ??

Even Amateur radios, the big kind are cheap to post too..

example..if you do on rigpix dot com you can get the weight of a rig, the go to royalmail dot com and check the cost to post..cheaper than most people quote..

i posted a FT-101 and it only cost £10 via a carrier and fully insured, by royalmail this would be around the £12 mark for upto 20kg, so when it say's £30 postage, don't believe it..

i know there's packing involved, but the ammount of used boxes i've received, and re-used jiffy bags..!!

i do it, i recycle, but then again i only charge postage cost's..not actual, but a very close estimate..

and never to make more than a couple of pence either..

if your unsure on an item, maybe it's big and heavy, try royalmail dot com look under standard parcels, they are cheaper than you think with upto 20kg being around £12..!!!

makes me laugh....

how about the sellers with an item at 1p start and £35.99 postage..!!!! you think you get a bargain untill you pay, then realise you've just paid high street prce !!!  or the less obvious, but the postage is the items cost price, so the seller never loses out, even if it sells at 1p, he gets back his cost price..

come on after all it's an auction, if you want to make money start the price higher..don't put it on the postage it's wrong and ebay should stamp it out..

try and recycle where you can, boxes and jiffy bags are cheap enough but to make the buyer want your items charge less on postage..

i know it really gets my back up when i pay what i think is reasonable on postage to find it's been sent second class, and in a re-used package and the actual cost was maybe a 1/4 of what i paid..

i know this seems like a moan, and maybe it is, but after all honesty is the best policy, and it's FREE..

if you set out to rip people off with postage cost's, you will upset people and get bad feedback, non of which we want..eBay is fun and can be quite profiting, so lets not let greed get to us..!!