I personally boycott sellers that do this regardless if I want the item just out of principle... How do other Treefroggers deal with this year old money grab....
Hi Guys,
Glad to see this being ventilated on Treefrog. Not that I think it will do any good! Like all of you, I too now boycott any seller who uses it.
The way the Customs Service operates here, in Australia, is that they don't bother to collect Customs duty/ Goods and Services Tax on items below $1,000 value which are clearly being imported by private citizens, for their own use. So, I haven't paid a cent of Customs duty or GST on any Soldiers I have imported in the last 15 years.
So, who gets my hard earned cash, if I was silly enough to buy a Global Freight item, if my (ie Australian) Customs Service doesn'i charge it? I certainly never got a refund!
I was also informed the other day that our favourite online "Auction House" is now charging, or is about to charge fees on the Freight component of a Sale! That's pretty greedy?
Living at the bottom of the habitable globe, as I do, I also have a huge beef about those lazy Sellers who rely on the terribly inaccurate "Postage Calculator" supplied by the USPS. Sometimes it is impossinle to shift them from the wildly expensive option put up by the "Official Source". They get boycotted too, now.
Early this year all Postal Authorities in the world (or so it seems) increased their rates by a huge %. As always, as the cost went up the quality of the Service went down. "Priority Post" is an absolute joke as it costs twice as much as Air Mail and takes twice as long to get here. And don't we just love those Sellers who insist upon it, and then take 2 weeks from payment, before they actually post the item.
Postage costs have the potential to kill that online auction house. It seems that the alternatives to the heavily privatised postal system are also as greedy and short sighted.
If anyone knows of a viable alternative, would they please share it with us.
Regards,
Bob
