Contacting eBay with a free text field.

[Feek]

I want to report someone to eBay for circumventing fees but the only way I can find to do it is by a standard form where there's no place for free text.

I want to buy three items from a seller, two are the same and are listed at £1.75 each with £5.10 postage and the third is £1.99 with £4.99 postage so I mailed him through eBay thus..

Hi!

Can you give me a combined postage price for two of these and one of your other items please.

Love and kisses

Feek

His reply..

sorry feek it's the same as the addvert on ebay, I don;t combine postage as it is a part of the value, regards Tim.

Blatantly trying to get around eBay fees.

So if I just enter the item numbers on that page, it'll do no good, I need to send the text of my messages to eBay.

Can I find a way to do so? Can I buggery.

Anyone know a link/form for reporting people to eBay where I can put free text?

[divine]

Is it really worth your effort? I doubt they'll care, especially enough to bother doing anything about it.

[Mark]

Me neither. The difference in listings fees at that level isn't going to be much, and it seems to be a commonplace practice (99p item with £3.01 postage is one I've come across).

[SidewinderINC]

No idea, but it really grinds my gears when people do it :(

divine` is right though, they won't do anything about it.

[Feek]

Well they made a big thing recently about unreasonable postage costs and it is cutting into their income.

[Mark]

Depends on the definition of unreasonable (size and value obviously count). £15 does sound a bit off though.

Anyway, if you still want to do it, go through 'report a user' instead.

@Kitten - no, they're not. They're doing away with neg feedback from the seller

[Dymetrie]

Bought (won) a card reader yesterday for £0.01, but with £4.49 postage costs...

There was the option of getting it sent via Special Delivery for £11.99...

WTF!

I sent Kellee an entire system (well, mobo, RAM, CPU and HS/F) for about £6...

[Wossi]

It is daft, I remember a couple of sellers I dealt with always used to combine the postage if you bought multiple items off them.

[Belmit]

Bought (won) a card reader yesterday for £0.01, but with £4.49 postage costs...

Sounds like you bought it from the same person I got mine from!

[Feek]

It worked out much cheaper buying separate items from separate sellers.