Banned from buying PIPE STUFF on Ebay by the seller?

[Spongy]

Originally Posted by n3uka

At the bottom of every auction on ebay is an option to report the listing.
One of the reasons for reporting is called listing violations for excessive shipping charges and circumventing of ebay fees. If enough people are notifying them about it they will do something as they want their full fees.

Thanks for the info.
While going through that process, you can click a link that shows examples of excessive shipping charges, and this is dead on.

[dogsplayinpoker]

My wife has charged a little higher when listing items because she has been burned on shipping once or twice. However, if the item costs less to ship than what she charged,
she refunds the difference. Imagine THAT kind of ebay!! And she still had someone complain about her shipping prices. WTF, right?
Heck, I am the one who gets stuck with packing and shipping half her crap anyway. Where's my cut?

[RGD]

Originally Posted by wharfrathoss

i don't know about y'all, but i take shipping charges into account when i bid-if someone wants to make profit offa shipping charges, they'll get less profit from me in my bid-if i don't win the pipe, so be it

Exactly. I most always know the price of the item, the amount I am willing to pay - and combine that with the shipping fee. I have on occasion sent an email asking if the shipping price was correct or an error. Example is I was going to bid on a filter (camera) until I saw the shipping was $10.50. I emailed and asked about the shipping - reply was "The shipping total is correct, good luck bidding." "Good luck bidding?" I replied - "Don't think so - not for something you can put in a padded mailer for $1.50."

Anyway - always check that shipping policy. And oh yeah - that going to the post office deal - the post office will pick up the items - don't even need to leave the house.

Ron

[DSturg369]

Bottom line that it would be nice if everyone shipped things the way we ship bombs, gifts, and packages on here. Hell, I've gotten packages that took all but a chainsaw to get into, but that just doesn't always happen. On the other end, I've gotten some nice and spendy cigars in nothing more than an envelope, sometimes damaged and sometimes not. Some people just don't know what the hell they are doing.

If you do leave that negative feedback comment (and I believe you have the right to do so), include in it that the problem was in the shipping so the next person can try to ask for better. My

[jgros001]

Originally Posted by croatan

I think everyone takes shipping into account for what they want to pay for an item. Unless I'm mistaken, the gripe is when the seller promises to ship an item via a certain method (quicker, more expensive), but instead ships it another way (slower, cheaper). It's not about someone charging a little more for shipping (to compensate for low item price or otherwise). That's common and, in my opinion, not a big deal--as long as you know what you're paying for.

You got it James....I called him out for not using the advertised shipping method. It took 10 days to arrive when I paid for it to arrive in 2-3 days. That and then the douche decides to ban me for making an honest complaint. Called him out is not even the correct term, more like asked for a couple of dollars back for not getting what was advertised.

Hell, coopersark has high shipping rates but he sends it packed perfectly and ships priority mail with insurance.

Makes me laugh though with the banning. Its like an athlete retiring when no one will pay them to play.

[cbsmokin]

It kind of reminds me of TV products, just $19.95 plus S&H. That S&H is usually 1/2 the price of the product and no special measures are taken to ship it.

It's all a game, it's all advertising to lure in the customers to buy. It happens EVERYWHERE not just ebay.

Keep in mind that you bought the product on ebay for a reason, even with inflated shipping charges you still beat the retail price or you found an item that you can not find at a retailer. If it had come all beat up usually it gets replaced or your get a refund. Ebay may not be perfect but it sure beats paying MSRP on everything you want.

[Davetopay]

Just a little fact to consider. Ebay will NOT let you sell a currently available tobacco product. You have to claim the item is out of production and its sealed nature is for collectability purposes only. Whether that is really always the case with baccy tins.....that's between you and the seller.

[HoopleHead]

Well I might get dogpiled on here, but I have to show all sides, not taking up for anyone...

I've sold pipes at first "postage free" but that in actuality means eBay is charging me a percentage of the sale that is being used for expenses for shipping. I then looked around and saw the average amount others were charging for shipping and sold a bunch of pipes for $5 shipping. Problem with that was, sometimes the pipe sold for so little I couldn't pay shipping and ebay charges and ****** charges... these all come off of the bottom line. Not much fun to offer a pipe for sale on eBay and have it actually cost you money to give it away.

Then I struck on the idea of selling them starting for 98 cents (that gets you a minimal charge from eBay) and stating clearly that I'm charging $10 for shipping, which includes the actual $5.25 priority mail (in their box) and delivery confirmation (to protect me). The additional $4.75 was to cover the eBay charges and the ****** percentage. It was clearly marked in two places on the auction page, plus my detailed text explanation. Nobody ever complained at all.

Of course I've intentionally sent free pipes to my friends from time to time and had to pay the shipping myself, but hey that's a gift, not what you go to eBay to do.

Granted I've bought pipes on eBay that should never have been sold to anyone... maybe buried at sea or something instead.

All the best from Utopia,
Ed

[bige610]

I ordered two pipes from a seller named books-n-stuff777 http://myworld.ebay.com/books-n-stuff777/

I think i was charged 4 or 5 dollars for shipping. Pipes came fast and in a box with egg crate foam on both sides and to my surprise was an extra pipe and two pipe rest. thats how things should be. I am a new pipe smoker but ive noticed that the online community is small and we should look out for each other. I cant respect somone who just wants to make a buck off of some one.

[Spongy]

Here's another way to look at what most of us are griping about.

Say a member here has a box-split. He states in the sale that the cigars cost $30 for a 5er. Then adds $6 or $7 for priority mail + DC.

What would happen to that member if everyone in the box split got their cigars in a plastic bubble wrap style envelope with 1st class shipping of $1.15??

He'd be ran off the boards or his ass would be put on a black list and he'd get negative trader ratings.

There's a huge difference between ADVERTISING IN THE AUCTION that you will use priority mail, and charge $9.95 for shipping (and mostly handling), and then only send it 1st class mail, poorly packaged with a handful of stamps that add up to $2. "Handling" does NOT cost $8 alone.

Fees from both Ebay and ****** should be assumed by the SELLER for the use of the service (a venue to sell their items).

I think a number of the ppl that do these kinds of things are in it to make as much money as possible and greed has taken control of their thought process.

[parris001]

Originally Posted by Spongy

Has anyone been banned by a dumbass.... errr..... I mean, by a seller who can't take constructive criticism?

What would you do if you won an auction, paid $10 for shipping, then received it in a bubble envelope and cost around $2 to ship???

Would you expect to be banned from that sellers future auctions?
What if you questioned, on an open forum, a sellers "shady" wording to their auctions (and they even publicly admitted it)?

Would you expect to be banned? I guess they have the right to ban whoever they so choose, but is it "brotherly"?

That may be a question that answers itself since the problems all take root with the seller purposefully misrepresenting what they are selling (like saying a tin of tobacco is out of production when it's not), or severely overcharging for shipping (and stating it will be sent USPS or whatever) while only paying 1/5th the amount they charged you - which to me, is very unbrotherly.

If these jackholes were online vendors, they would be blacklisted throughout the online forum communities.
Why are they given a free pass by the pipe community for what they pull on Ebay then?

I'd like to know who this person is. They may be a member here and that's the reason for them being kept anonymous, but I've always been one for full disclosure despite the chance of hurting one's feelings.

The pipe community is a small one and I'd just as soon not accidentally end up doing business with someone who has made a practice of screwing fellow BOTL. As you asked in this original posting, "why are they given a free pass by the pipe community?" The free pass ends here. Out this person. Otherwise this thread will have been for nothing.

[jgros001]

Originally Posted by parris001

I'd like to know who this person is. They may be a member here and that's the reason for them being kept anonymous, but I've always been one for full disclosure despite the chance of hurting one's feelings.

The pipe community is a small one and I'd just as soon not accidentally end up doing business with someone who has made a practice of screwing fellow BOTL. As you asked in this original posting, "why are they given a free pass by the pipe community?" The free pass ends here. Out this person. Otherwise this thread will have been for nothing.

No one gets anonymous status - I stated to the two in post #17

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showpos...4&postcount=17

[Spongy]

Originally Posted by jgros001

No one gets anonymous status - I stated to the two in post #17

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showpos...4&postcount=17

I followed up with another one, "Judd's".

[ultramag]

Originally Posted by monsoon

.... whore.

[havana_lover]

Im sorry anyone that doesnt look at the cost of shipping on a ebay item is asking for trouble.. if it cost that much for shipping I dont buy it, period.. if you do its your own fault..