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    Is this fair or what? —Melody Brown
   I just recently won something on ebay... at a rather nice price but the chick who I won it off not only wants to charge me for postage but also a handling fee of $7 USD. I have NEVER had someone charge me that before... Is this allowed??? Mel (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Is this fair or what? —Peter White
     (...) Maybe they are annoyed that they have to post overseas. Was the handling charge listed in the description anywhere ? Does this make the total price not nice ? pete.w (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
    
         Re: Is this fair or what? —Melody Brown
     No, nothing in her description and she allowed overseas transactions, and was delighted to hear I was from Australia haha... I just don't understand the Handling fee thing... I think she was more grrr at the fact that no-one else bidded on the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
    
         Re: Is this fair or what? —Jason King
     Yeah i have been caught on Shipping costs too. I have decided i will not bid on anything without checking the postage costs first. -- Jason King LugNet #665 jklugnet665@optusnet.com.au Melody Brown <Black666beast@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Is this fair or what? —David Drew
   ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melody Brown" <Black666beast@hotmail.com> To: <lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Is this fair or what? (...) I have never seen this handling fee in any of my auction (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Is this fair or what? —Ross Crawford
   (...) I've seen this once (it was actually stated in the description). It wasn't something I really wanted, so didn't bother asking. Basically, I think the seller is allowed to charge any fee they want to, but they should clearly state this in the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 

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