Postal charges on ebay, some think they should be more, some think they should be less.

As a rule of thumb, sellers would like to be charging more and buyers would like to be charged less.

"Sellers would like to have a sporting chance at clawing back some of the ever-increasing ebay fees and paypal charges whilst still selling their items for less than the high street (plus postage) price" cry one side.

"Buyers have the right to find a bargain without a profit margin on the postage running into double figures" cry the other side.

So in spirit of service to my fellow man and woman, in my capacity as a frequent seller and occasional parcel-sender on ebay, I have decided to detail for both sides, the true cost of postage and packaging. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you are about to have the benefit of my knowledge, god help you. I hope the impact of such revelations does not make your teeny skulls explode with the vastness of the concepts I am going to try to ram home into them.

I imagine a lot of people will read this in dumbstruck silence. That is the effect we pioneers of enlightenment have on the uninformed masses.

So pour yourself a large glass of port, sit in the comfy chair (keep the port within an arm stretch to save all that pesky up and down business) open a packet of digestives(oh yes sorry, you DID have to get up and get them didn't you? -oops) and slice up that mature cheddar (sorree, forgot to mention the cheddar and the knife ... before you sat down a second time- heh...ahem.. sorry)

Erm... put the knife down and stop glaring at me please. Just you sit back and prepare to be educated on P&P - wombat style.


Here are a breakdown of my a general ebay seller's postal charges.
(If you don't like 'em, bog off and leave me your poor sell to me their hangover)


Ebay *is* a serious business

1) I Seller wraps tem - Cost: 1 new envelope -£1
2) I Seller address envelope - Cost: 1 Label printer / paper / ink
3) I Seller thanks buyer - Cost: internet connection £10 per hour
4) Have 1 drink as it has been an exhausting morning....Cost: £4(Sauf Lurnden is not cheap you know)
5) Travel to PO on bus, FULL of plebs. Cost: £2
6) Get slung off bus for having face-off with pleb.
7) Have to walk to village - time factor charge. Cost: £5 (well it was only a 5 minuite walk)
8) PO closed for lunch - decide to do the same
9) Have a pint while waiting for food. Cost: £15
10) Drink vanishes, order another pint. Cost £3
11) Get bought pint by Lurch look-alike in corner (no charge to buyer - I seller's are so good to my   their beloved customers)
12) Seller buy's a round of drinks for Lurch and his mates. Cost £15
13) Food arrives, food fight ensues, bad seller gets kicked out of pub. Still starving.
14) Go to another pub. Order another meal and a pint ... and a chaser to compensate for recent trauma. Cost: £20
15) V. v.v.v.v feeling tiddley by now. Have another pint, hiccup loudly have another chaser, leave pub via the revolving doors that were not there when I your faithful seller came in. Cost: £6


16) Realise with some amusement still have glass of whisky in hand. Throw it back quickly and fling empty glass at tree in manner of Irish... Greek ... Scottish... Russian .... erm... bloody drunk person. Of course am not drunk, just doing dunne... durn....demmmeeee....daaaaa.....daaammmed" Forget what I was trying to say and aim self in direction of home. Have v. loud and uncontrollable burps for some reason. Burps giving me giggles, giggles making legs v. floppy and head v. swimmy. Heeeee-heeeeh.....

17) Street sweeper gives me poo about breaking glass.
18) Have scuffle with street sweeper. Am arrested.
19) Wake up the next morning. Have rotten headache. Obviously had dodgy food. Leave police station cells. Pay disorderly conduct fine to beak in black on court bench . Cost: £60
20) Not up to going to PO 21) Return home to bed. Not feeling very clever
22) Wake up to moaning feedback "where's me item"

Bleedin' buyers.....
£139 just to get to the door of the PO to post some parcels. Now, of course am not allowed near PO due to ASBO for breaking glass and puking in  the closed PO doorway. Parcels currently crammed under the stairs. Damm Ebay, not worth selling on it it you know, fees too high.