Quote Originally Posted by O'Neille
I never even asked for a refund. All I did was ask that he send me a total. I fully expected to pay for the largest shipping amount after receiving his first reply, then he increased the shipping amount. As far as the automatic shipping discount being added by EBay I think that sellers are responsible for their listing and EBay doesn't make you offer shipping discounts. My point is, I bid, I won, I paid. O'Neille
My point was that the wording was E-bay's that makes it seem like the first one is the shipping price rather than the most expensive. And from your posts it sounds like he eventually worked out that shipping should be 14.99 (and the 19.99 was probably an E-bay thing that had to be changed manually), so what's the problem? How is he scamming you? Yes his second/third e-mails were beligerant, but look at it from his POV. Your note seemed to say that while you agree to pay the shipping of 14.99 you still feel like you're getting screwed. He asked for an apology or said you can take your business elsewhere.

Also I know you didn't ask for a refund. I was stating that as a seller, in the past year a great many buyers have been trying everything they can to get money back on perfectally good items. It doesn't excuse bad customer service but it does explain it somewhat. When a customer e-mails me politely, I try and work with them. When a customer immediately jumps to "you're a scam artist", I tell them to take a flying leap. And the "bad" customer thing has really grown in the last year, to the point that I have all but stopped selling on E-bay.