Free P&P on Ebay to Ireland?

Red Sleeping Beauty

Have ye come across many ebay sellers doing the Free P&P to Ireland? I saw one the other day there and had to email to confirm and true enough they were doing it which I was shocked by. I thnk this new Free P&P rule is for UK only and is possibly only a trial. I've tried chancing it with asking the seller via email does the free P&P include Ireland cause if they're delivering free to Northern Ireland it can't be that much more expensive for the other 26 counties no? Cheeky I know but acht :P

Any Irish sellers here selling on .co.uk forced to do free P&P to UK ?

jor el

For games and DVDs, the postage must be free if you use .co.uk, regardless of where the seller is located.

I've got free P&P on items from time to time, from various locations and for various items. Not because of any rules, some sellers just do it that way.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Yeah I think we're getting shafted on this.

As you said, UK ebay sellers have to include Free UK P&P on DVDs and they're now just including the cost of the P&P in the price. Either in the listing price for auctions or the buy it now price. This means then that you're paying for UK postage and then the Irish postage on top of that.

I just had a guy justify to me £6 P&P to Ireland because it's "international" even though NI is in the UK and on the same island...

Apparently Royal Mail charge the same price to deliver to Ireland that they charge for Estonia or Greece or wherever else in Europe. That's a bit mad as it can't cost the same surely?

o1s1n

I bought two items today on ebay.co.uk and got free p&p. They were small enough (a replacement screen for a sega Nomad & a phone charger) but was suprised to see them not want anything contributed to the postage fee.

I would absolutely jump for joy if they extended this to Ireland. The biggest thing I buy on ebay is old console games. I've spent an absolute fortune over the years on postage alone.

Can't see it happening though. As already stated, we're considered international.

I remember once an ebay seller saying how it was ridiculous that although Dublin was closer to him geographically than Belfast,the postage to me was twice the price.

Which in the end just lost him a sale as I couldn't bring myself to pay that much postage.

I do think the up side of this may be lower postage prices for us. I have noticed all the items I've been buying as of late have cost quite a bit less in that regard.

Red Sleeping Beauty

o1s1n wrote: »

I do think the up side of this may be lower postage prices for us. I have noticed all the items I've been buying as of late have cost quite a bit less in that regard.

How is that though? Sellers are including the UK P&P in the listing price either by having a higher starting bid or a higher buy it now. So say you either win or buy a game with "free" UK P&P and the game costs £8 then that's including say two or three pound for the "free" UK P&P. So then if you're paying another few euros on top of that for the Irish P&P then you're effectively paying over the odds. It is just weird. I don't think there's many sellers that pay much attention to Ireland and there must be thousands of Irish people ebay and buying from the UK.

I've never bought anything from an Irish person through ebay.

old boy

you think thats bad, some u.s. sellers are charging $35 on basic postage on small items.

Judgement Day

As a seller on eBay.uk (based in Ireland) I can assure buyers that the 'free' postage and maximum postage that has been introduced is a pain in the arse for sellers - the latest in a long line of dicking about with the the system that eBay have done. Ebay charge a listing fee, a final sale fee and now they are really screwing sellers through PayPal fees (10%) payable on money received from selling items. This is one golden goose that's on its last legs.....:mad:

Red Sleeping Beauty

Getting ripped off from sellers on postage was a pain in the ass too.

Judgement Day

Alan Rouge wrote: »

Getting ripped off from sellers on postage was a pain in the ass too.

I have never overcharged for postage and don't charge for packaging materials, tape etc and if you were overcharged for p+p you should have left negative feedback - which, of course, sellers CANNOT leave for bad buyers!

Red Sleeping Beauty

Judgement Day wrote: »

I have never overcharged for postage and don't charge for packaging materials, tape etc and if you were overcharged for p+p you should have left negative feedback - which, of course, sellers CANNOT leave for bad buyers!

Not everyone was overcharging and I've only had it happen the odd time. You look at the price of postage on the envelope/jiggy bag and then lookat how much you paid for P&P and you know they trousered the balance. Jiffy bags and stuff get reused and taped up (which is grand by me) but charging for reused materials is a bit sneaky.

I'd imagine that this "Free" postage thing pretty much wipes out Irish sellers on UK Ebay? Why is the Irish ebay so empty?