Over charging on shipping and handling to cover sellers fees?

[love2shoppe4me]

Over the past two weeks, oddly from two different sellers, I have been over charged as much as triple the cost for shipping. The last one saying its Canadian Expedited parcel and arriving Registered Letter. When inquiring at the over charging they say its to cover their seller fees. Its their handling costs. ?!? 

They then said, because I went ahead and paid the shipping when purchasing the item, they don't have to reimburse me. Also saying they can charge what they want, nothing I can do about it.

Actually there is a lot I can do. 😉 ....Especially since ebay can see their replies to my queries.

Just curious if anyone else is having this lately?

Don't they realize that if they want to cover the cost of their seller fees, they can just up the price of their item?

[peclem38]

Actually, it could well be against the rules. Ebay would be unhappy about sellers charging more than cost for shipping as it may be seen as avoiding Ebay fees. If sellers are recouping their fees by charging extra for shipping then that is very much against the rules.

You report an item by reporting listing practices - avoiding ebay fees.

It is up to Ebay then.