more fun than an eye full of piss (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jacoby_swift) wrote,@ 2009-06-29 11:34:00 |
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Ebay are twats
Aaaargh!
Ebay piss me off so much!
You may have noticed that there are a lot of "Free p&p" listings on Ebay recently. This is because Ebay have enforced compulsory free p&p on a number of categories, including books, games, dvds, clothing, accessories, etc.. (Funnily enough, a large number of very busy categories with a low item values relative to the cost of postage.)
The first frustrating thing is that they announced it to the sellers as an 'offer', saying they'd reduce your final value fees by a tiny fraction if you listed an item in these categories with free p&p.
"Fuck that!" thought I, not being the sort of dullard that would sign up to get sodomised by a pole just because it had a red star with Special offer! gaffa-taped to the end.
Since I last popped out to the post office, which we do alot in our line of work, Royal Mail aren't currently offering any services for the 12p Ebay aparrently think is about what it costs to magic an item from point A to point B. (This is how much their offer would give us.)
So when this "offer" started, we spent hours trying to work out why the listings were throwing up postage errors. "Surely its not compulsory" - we thought. "Look, there's even a ticky box to tick to say we want to offer free p&p. What kind of imbecile would add one of those if it was suddenly compulsory?"
Aparrently the kind of imbecile that was trying very hard to make the sodomy-pole more attractive by insinuating that you'd consented to this rude and unencouraged buggery.
The following day, when we still couldn't list items because of what we thought was a free p&p bug, I phoned Ebay to report the error, to be nervously informed that it wasn't an error! Hadn't I read last months announcements, which told me about the offer? "I did." said I. "However, this isn't a fucking offer is it - an offer is a proposal, this is a subjection!"
After railing at the poor person for some time, while wearing out an angry strip of my carpet, he told me to add the postage costs on to the value of the item.
Why is that fucking free postage? Its just a stealth-tax by Ebay, allowing them to finally get to charge us a fee on postage costs. While at the same time, forcing us to insultingly patronise our customers, claiming to pay for the postage out of the kindness of our hearts.
Twats.
Aaaargh!
Ebay piss me off so much!
You may have noticed that there are a lot of "Free p&p" listings on Ebay recently. This is because Ebay have enforced compulsory free p&p on a number of categories, including books, games, dvds, clothing, accessories, etc.. (Funnily enough, a large number of very busy categories with a low item values relative to the cost of postage.)
The first frustrating thing is that they announced it to the sellers as an 'offer', saying they'd reduce your final value fees by a tiny fraction if you listed an item in these categories with free p&p.
"Fuck that!" thought I, not being the sort of dullard that would sign up to get sodomised by a pole just because it had a red star with Special offer! gaffa-taped to the end.
Since I last popped out to the post office, which we do alot in our line of work, Royal Mail aren't currently offering any services for the 12p Ebay aparrently think is about what it costs to magic an item from point A to point B. (This is how much their offer would give us.)
So when this "offer" started, we spent hours trying to work out why the listings were throwing up postage errors. "Surely its not compulsory" - we thought. "Look, there's even a ticky box to tick to say we want to offer free p&p. What kind of imbecile would add one of those if it was suddenly compulsory?"
Aparrently the kind of imbecile that was trying very hard to make the sodomy-pole more attractive by insinuating that you'd consented to this rude and unencouraged buggery.
The following day, when we still couldn't list items because of what we thought was a free p&p bug, I phoned Ebay to report the error, to be nervously informed that it wasn't an error! Hadn't I read last months announcements, which told me about the offer? "I did." said I. "However, this isn't a fucking offer is it - an offer is a proposal, this is a subjection!"
After railing at the poor person for some time, while wearing out an angry strip of my carpet, he told me to add the postage costs on to the value of the item.
Why is that fucking free postage? Its just a stealth-tax by Ebay, allowing them to finally get to charge us a fee on postage costs. While at the same time, forcing us to insultingly patronise our customers, claiming to pay for the postage out of the kindness of our hearts.
Twats.
