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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: horsehead on December 09, 2007, 07:38:07 PM

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: horsehead on December 09, 2007, 07:38:07 PM

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-1960B-4x12-Cab-Cabinet-Nice-Sound_W0QQitemZ260190121559QQihZ016QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I think, though I'm not certain, it maybe a typo?

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: maverickf1jockey on December 09, 2007, 07:46:21 PM

Whoever ends up the 'lucky' bidder is going to be SO pissed off...

That verges on fraud; if that is the actual charge for postage the seller ought to be prosecuted and the buyer given a hard slap for being so stupid.

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: waves on December 09, 2007, 07:51:05 PM

i could be wrong, but could they have just listed it with postage to get people with filters to see it, but then make it ridiculous so you would HAVE to pick it up?

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: MDV on December 09, 2007, 07:52:10 PM

Expensive AND incompetant.

Lovely combination, isnt it?

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: Will on December 09, 2007, 07:54:59 PM

hmm, it says pick up only, maybe thats just as a deterrant so people won't think it will be posted.
and the seller can't understand how to list as collection only I presume

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: Scotty477 on December 09, 2007, 07:59:15 PM

Am I reading that right?

Is that ... £1,000,000.00 .... one million pounds postage?   :o

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: noodleplugerine on December 09, 2007, 08:46:10 PM

Awesome =D

Title: Damn! Royal Mail got expensive!
Post by: Philly Q on December 09, 2007, 11:07:42 PM

Quote from: Will

hmm, it says pick up only, maybe thats just as a deterrant so people won't think it will be posted.
and the seller can't understand how to list as collection only I presume

In my experience, when you list something as "collection only" people still contact you to ask if you'll post it - and not only to the UK.  :roll:

He's said "Collection in person preferred. Courier collection possible but this is at the buyers cost, arrangement and risk", so he's not offering to arrange postage under any circumstances.

I think the £1,000,000 is just, as Will says, a deterrent.