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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
Nothing. It’s your fault for not inquiring about shipping charges before you bid.
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
learn from the mistake, if shipping is not listed, it may be due to the fact the seller wants to charge high shipping, without letting you decide first. If they had said in the auction, it would be different, you would have had the chance to make up your mind wether to bid, but as they didnt….. Unless the seller ticked the "exact shipping" box, in which case you can complain. Most likely they did not…..
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
Take it as a lesson learned to ask before bidding. Granted that’s quite a bit to ship those cd’s but learning in advance of stuff like this can sway you not to purchase.
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
Since the three FVFs have to be from three different people to get an automatic NARU, why did you not pay for the items from the first two sellers, the ones you aren’t mentioning here?
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
It’s highly unusual for *one* seller to be able to NARU a buyer. http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/f-npb.html Q: I submitted three credit requests for auctions that had the same high bidder, why isn’t that bidder now suspended? A: There could be a number of reasons. First, the system will not automatically suspend a bidder if that bidder receives three Non-Paying Bidder Warnings from one seller. This does not mean that the bidder will not be suspended, it simply means that the bidder will be manually reviewed and, if appropriate, suspended. (second reason snipped, because it has to do with non-warning NPBs) If you want to get back on eBay, pay him and have him withdraw the FVF warnings. He may (or may not) agree to do that. Yes, I think his shipping fees are high and he’s gouging, but you didn’t ask before bidding and are stuck with the results. Meanwhile, since you are letting your daughter use your account, you might want to ask her what else she may have bid on or if there’s any chance your account already had two strikes against it, when that seller filed his. Kris
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
You must have had 2 previous warnings for his complaint to NARU you.
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do?
He certainly didn’t NARU the account listed under your e-mail address you posted from….. Evan To reply, remove TheObvious from my e-mail address.
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
Bearing in mind, that you should have asked first, the seller may be in the wrong. The seller has the right to ship each CD separately and charge a reasonable fee for each. $8 each is about the maximum one might expect. However, After taking $24 for shipping, I would bet that the seller would have combined the items and shipped at media rate. A combined shipping charge over $10 in such a case is stealing. Also note that the seller reportedly did not respond to the combining inquiry. The buyer, of course, should have phoned the seller. While I am usually a seller, as a buyer I got charged four times the shipping charge on a Dutch auction where I bought 4 copies of a DVD. The seller refused to combine the shipping charge, but went ahead and combined the DVDs into one shipment by Priority Mail. I felt ripped off. A week later the seller was NARU’d for something else (VERO). Unfortunately, I had already paid him. The DVDs turned out to be bootleg. Paypal doesn’t care if it is bootleg, if I got it, tough beans. No refund.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? He certainly didn’t NARU the account listed under your e-mail address you posted from….. Evan
Performance art, anyone? Kris
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"Barb" wrote My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do? Thanks! Barb
Bite the bullet and pay the shipping. You bid, you won, you pay. Next time, email before bidding and ask the seller about the shipping fee. link
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My daughter bought 3 $7.99 CD’s from a greedy seller. The shipping fee was not listed in the ads. He sent me 3 separate invoices and wanted me to pay $8 shipping for each CD ($24 total for shipping just 3 CD’s!!). I emailed him and asked him about the excessive shipping but never heard back from him. So I refused to pay.
Which was a very bad idea. He filed NPB, FVF for the 3 auctions and NARU’d my account. What can I do?
I doubt that he alone NARUed your account–generally it takes three different sellers. There might also be an issue about your daughter’s use of your eBay account. If it is because of three FVFs, your only way back is to convince one of the sellers to reverse the FVF. That means, at the very least, *paying* the seller, plus, of course, ascertaining his willingness to consider reversing. It’s not likely to be easy. — Deborah Stevenson [eliminate OBSTACLES to email me]
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Someone let :<snip : Nothing. It’s your fault for not inquiring about shipping charges : before you bid. That’s just not good enough though. Sure, the bidder should have enquired about the shipping details beforehand but this abuse of the eBay system (profiteering from the shipping charges) is becoming far too prevalent in recent times… and these shonks should be taken to task, one way or the other. — Je
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