Ebay Postage And Vendors.

I am an ebay newbie.
just won an item,
I wish to pay, but ebay refuses to take my money
because vendor has not specified a shipping price.
(Australian and in the text he quotes 60c)

He has not replied for 2 days, is there anyway I can force payment?
or do I wait till he contacts me, if at all?
advice? Thanks.

2 days isn't all that long (although annoying when you are waiting). Is he a new seller? he might not know how to fix his mistake. He needs to send you an invoice. This allows sellers to modify transaction details, eg when you buy multiple items from a seller and they combine shipping.
Presumably he wants paid, so I'm sure he'll get in touch!

Thanks Stampgal
He is up around the 500
OK I'll give it another 2 days.
I have emailed him for a statement.

Just Opened my email and there it was
Cheers

Got a nice piece for my collection,
the beauty of ebay, picking up the unusual.

Romania card posted to outback Australia 1908
Beenleigh would have been a very small town



Beenleigh 1908

But it was already the home of Beenleigh Rum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenleigh_Rum)

LOL
wiki has nothing on that link.
You know Tony, I am fairly sure I have drank Beenleigh rum,
when I was young and stupid, living in Sydney, as a teenager.
I recognise the label.

The "stamp" card is a Zieher print, very scarce, especially in light of the unusual sending and receiving destinations.

Thanks Doug,
I'll have to Google for more information,
the vendor mentioned that, but it didn't mean anything to me.
I chased Coslin, but got nowhere, perhaps Koslin,
many German immigrants settled in that area.

I'll have to wait to see the back of the card.

stampboards
"Ottmar Zieher was a postcard publisher based in Munich, (Bavaria) Germany. He had been a pioneer in the field of pictorial postcard publishing and was producing high quality color post cards as early as 1897. Between 1903 and 1906, he published a series of color post cards, each depicting different contemporary stamps of a particular country. Known as the Carte Philatelique series, there are approximately 100 different postcard designs from this series, all numbered, some with Zieher's imprint obliterated, some printed with embossed images and some were printed flat."

Rod: We had a tv show in the 1950s called Dragnet starring Jack Webb, who played a Los Angeles police detective. In one of the episodes he pulled over a drunk driver and asked where he was going and the drunk slurred out "Pismo Beach". The strange things that stay in your mind. Forty years later I travelled thousands of miles to California and made Pismo beach the southern terminus of my trip because of that program. I can feel that post card of Beenleigh pulling me in. Do you have a modern day view of that scene?

Cynical,
I recall dragnet, the guy with the monotone voice. :)
black and white TV as I recall.

Cannot help with Beenleigh, I have never been to Queensland.
It seems to have been enveloped by the Gold Coast and Brisbane,
so it will be a typical modern Australian City.

Here's the best I can do

Second fault encountered with ebay (or at least, the Vendor)
People trying it on.

Vendor in Romania claims he will combine shipping
I bought 3 stamps, and I get billed 3 x $5 shipping

Now I have to email him and enquire etc etc.

He just lost a potentially good customer.

Rod,
When I sell on ebay, I usually charge $1 1st cover to the us $2 all others, 50c for each one after that. but when I bring up the invoice to send to you, if you bought say 12 covers the shipping ch0arge will be $12 until I change it.

Thanks DL, I appreciate advice whilst I am learning,
I have just bid on an ebay for dummies, which should arrive
in a week or so, should I win.

I waited for the vendors "total" or account I think they call it
and was surprised to see the high shipping, when he advised the total.
I'll wait to see his response.

Vendor reponded, as you suggested DL.
All fixed, will be patient in future.

There is an option in ebay to post extra charges for other items bought after the first. You can set it to free or any other amount. Plenty of sellers do not seem to know this, so the ebay default sets in which is the same charge for each item.

Rod that unpleasant situation you found yourself in is a nightmare for the seller and so misleading for the buyer.

ebay sends an invoice with mailing costs for all items purchased and even though Jeannie would send a corrected invoice as soon as and all of it as was explained in our description area. We were receiving a lot of angry emails and worst of all we were nearly shut down by ebay because our hidden feedback reached a point that one more negative feedback and it would of been the end of us. All because of confusion about mailing costs.

Because of this situation we have a total free mailing policy for all our lots. It has worked very well for us and our sales have increased more than 200% simply by offering free mailing.

Free mailing has simply stopped the confusion for the buyer.

But in saying this there is no such thing as free mailing. The cost is just added to the cost of the lots for sale. But it is all honest and upfront the cost is easy to see for all comers.