Combined shipping - canada to the US | Buying

storageriches2468 · 2024-03-27T08:23:04.286000Z

- I'm a seller and a buyer on ebay. - recently won 17 individual auctions from the same seller across 2 calendar days. - requested combined shipping and two days later the invoice arrives. Now $120 in shipping charges. Double checked his auction description and it does say he offers combined shipping. The shipping costs before he bundled was over $200. I made an almost identical purchase two weeks ago from a different seller in Canada and I paid about $15 in shipping charges for 17 comic books. Each comic book weighs about 8 ounces. With packaging a single comic book weights about 10 ounces. Messaged the seller and he claims ebay does all of the calculations for him. I suspect he is not inputting the actual dimensions and weight of the box but letting ebays algorithm auto calculate for him. So far he has only offered to cancel and doesn't seem like he understands that ebay doesn't know what the actual weight and dimensions are. They are just guessing and that it requires him to input the correct values. I've contacted several sellers in Canada and they have all confirmed it should cost around $15-$20 to ship that combined weight from Canada to the US. It's been 6 days now and I have yet to pay due to the significant overcharge in shipping fees. At this point it seems all I can do is wait for the seller to cancel and hope he doesn't try to say I didn't pay. I've already contacted ebay and they said they will monitor our case and to continue trying to work things out with the seller. Has anyone else had to deal with a similar situation like this? It almost seems like he is purposely overcharging to make more profits but $100 over what it should be seems excessive. Sellers like this should be banned. There is a slight language barrier in his messages to me but how can you sell thousands of items on ebay and not understand how bundling works? He's had some negative feedback but only a handful over past year.

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