Taffmiester's Shipping rip off from the owners mouth

True or not I would be careful flinging **** at a fan without some googling first. Ebay is charging different fees, including some hefty shipping fees. If the sellers don't follow with their prices they loose that money, sometimes with result of no win or even loss if the item is cheap.
Ebay is a well known system and therefor people trust it. they know it and it comes with a price.

This is what one seller using ebay said in a forum (that I found after a quick google)

I have sold for over 12 years on Ebay. Here is my two cents worth:

1. Ebay was the first and continues to have a larger market of buyers than any other website and they don't care about sellers.

2. In order to sell you must constantly stay on top of the changes, charges, fees, and updates which includes making sure your listings comply with all of them. You will lose money if you don't understand all of the rules. I would estimate 4 hours a week at a minimum to keep up to date.

3. If sellers want prices and policies to change, somebody needs to set a date and encourage all sellers who are put out to change over to another website all at once. If everybody goes to different websites, the number of buyers will be split out among too many websites. This will be ineffective. If sellers prepared for a mass exit from Ebay ONE auction site, it would make increase the amount of business substantially on the selected site. This major effort might become front page news (with enough sellers) which would cauise shoppers to investigate and then become followers. Leverage in numbers is the only thing that could work.

4. To cut even, you need to include ithese costs in your starting price:

a. cost of shipping plus 35% (time involved in printing labels, scheduling a pickup, cost of supplies,percentage on shipping costs, and time to package item)

b. cost to purchase the item plus 25% (time and travel cost)

c. cost of Ebay listing and final value fees plus 20% (bookkeeping, accounting time, state and income tax)

d. cost of paypal fees (15%)

Additional cost you should consider when setting the starting price:

e. cost of cleaning time, picture taking, banking, emails, researching, writing listing description, services thru ebay that you pay a fee, cost of returns)

f. cost of mental health services to recover from financial loss and depression and in some cases divorce.

5. And if you want ot make a profit, then add that amount to the total of the items above.

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Ok. It was a friendly warning/advice As I do not really know that much about online selling I will not say anything more.

Get over it. No one comes here to listen to squables.

they shouldn't come here to get ripped off either

i did, more than $1000 of useless rubbish with free abuse

I got over it 5 years ago

Fact is it is still possible ....

squabbling only occurs if the accusations are true

as such voluntarily reading "squabbling" is relatively benign by comparison ... i say get over it

I like to hear about vendors and the like. This is not the first time I have heard Husaberg owners talk about the high shipping costs from Taffmiester's. I will still use them, but they are my 7th choice to get parts. :unsure:

First of all, notice how phuqface quotes me as expensive post and then straight away in the next line calls it 'very expensive'. worra tit.

In all the adverts I personally put up it always says: "please call the shop for a cheaper price" I've yet to see all of Julia's but she has added 100 products since she started so it might take me a while! that is also why we take photos with the wwwdottaffmeisters.co.uk in the background - so we can get you to email us and avoid ebay.

by emailing us we can pay-pal the invoice dirctly and split the saving with the customer. nobody really wins on ebay although the customer is totally protected to the point that is taking the piss.

as noted above, we have to take for registered post and that is why it is more expensive to use ebay.

when using our webshop, the computer doesn't know who you are!! - so we still have to go for registered post and the computer has a job working out the size and bulk of the eventual package. each part has a weight that we give it but then you'll have exhaust wadding that weighs nothing. if it is unbder 2KG we go to the post office and their are 3 sizes but also 8 weights. so we have to take a conservative stance and be sure to cover ourselves on the computer (that means web shop).

in the web shop, many of you will have been unable to get a postage cost when offered the final bill. this is because we have made the computer say 'zero' postage fees and then we write to the customer having worked it out, there has to be an element of trust here but most people now write to us and say: "oy I can't pay any postal costs?" we then tell them how much based on the provisional order on our screen and that we will pay-pal the postage after they have paid for just the parts. it is almost always accurate to within a£1-£2 tops. it's possible to get a 3KG parcel this way for the same as a 1.1KG (read as 2KG) parcel because we par the post right back when we get a chance to look at the order.

in the UK, at the post office we pay 20% VAT on orders over 2KG (4.4LB) so we try to be sure about this. with courirs we pay it on anything. so we visit the post office with everything under 2KG and we go 4 times per week with perhaps just Wednesday off.

we can sell batteries in the UK but not abroad, even though you can't buy them abroad they still get added! the computer can't make it invisible to thosde outside the UK so all it can do is say 'zero post'. all you are doing then is flagging it to us straight away because we know that that will be the 'no post cost' reason. the other is theoretical over 2KG pricing. the computer says Zero for outside the EU or abroad.

if a Li-on battery is in a bugger order we can get away with it but on its own the X-ray will pick it up and then there has to be a refund and we are the loser for taking the gamble.

most of our old customers email us, they'll do this if their English is weak or they're not sure what they want. also the saving of the cost of a call.

then we have the callers where English is their first language plus every single Scandinavian who all speak 100% perfect English and don't even have an accent. we have more trouble with Indio, CA than we do with India!

the callers want some clarity on what to get and what it'll do when they get it. they then often still want to buy online and get the pay-pal protection.

the system works. ebay is a rip-off and pay-pal is an even bigger one! on a £1,000 order pay-pal want £44 or $70. in the meantime a card would cost 1% which is £10 and 20p. so we openly charge the difference when we do an email > pay-pal order. but we can't do that to ebay and the webshop of course.

Ebay makes us the VAT regardless of in or out of the EU but the web shop takes it off. that makes up some for the daft fees ebay charge but doesn't help the customer and we certainly don't win....ebay wins....pay-pal wins! it doesn't help anyone. I sell stators and make £10 on ebay. £10 on a £200+ item. now you know why luckily most customers want to ask a qustion first before committing and we are saying: call and buy, call and buy!!! we use ebay to get our name out there and hope that people will go to our shop and save the VAT yet save us as well.

MANY PEOPLE HERE WILL HAVE CALLED AND GOT A FAR CHEAPER DEAL ON SEMs. WE NEVER CHARGE OR TRY TO CHARGE THE EBAY PRICE WHEN ON THE PHONE OR EMAILING TO SET UP THE DEAL. EVERYONE SAVES MONEY. Ebay is the top line on any price.

the cheapest way to buy anything is to call us, have the VAT removed if outside the EU, the cheapest postage is 'unrecorded' (only available to old customers) and then pay with your card. we don't do the 'unrecorded' whatever happens for the first few deals to anyone in France, Italy, Spain, Turkey. when we trust them they can have the unrecorded. we now have good customers in all these countries but their fellow citizens have badly let them down. In France this is endemic and I'm told it is the same in Italy but we can't stop and wait to find out anymore!

rarely, someone will call from the UK, get a price and ask to pay by pay-pal in which case we'll try and offer a discount if they'll BACS the money or use their card.

also in the UK, there is no discount for using BACS over their card as I consider this using your card the default position and a cost to my business.

we'll get a UK customer want say...£400 worth, and they really want the cheapest price and then I'll squeeze a bit more off for using BACS but you're only saving me £1.80 ($3) by then so we really are nickel and diming it and even the customers tish-tish it. we talk at £1,000 about BACS and then both parties feel it is worth it. I can then see the BACS money clearing in my own time trusting that there is always a 24-hour delay while we put an order that size together.

a tip for you: check what you paid for post, check what is printed across her majety's face and crown and see how close they are to each other. (under 2KG parcels go via the Post Office and thus have a stamp on them).

we try not to make a profit on post away from ebay (noting the above fees problem) but you'll appreciate we don't want to lose either.

the worst place in the world for postage is the USA. thank god for that....... why?

now work out why I say that!!!!!!!

regards

Taffy

Oregon Trail said:

I like to hear about vendors and the like. This is not the first time I have heard Husaberg owners talk about the high shipping costs from Taffmiester's. I will still use them, but they are my 7th choice to get parts. :unsure:

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it is the first time I have heard this? where else was it said?

Taffy

I have never paid high shipping costs from Taffmiester's to Canada. i just call talk with David we sort out what i need pay visa and its shipped that day or the next. One week later i have it... 4 years purchasing and no troubles don't know what the fuss is all about ?

PEI Mudder said:

I have never paid high shipping costs from Taffmiester's to Canada. i just call talk with David we sort out what i need pay visa and its shipped that day or the next. One week later i have it... 4 years purchasing and no troubles don't know what the fuss is all about ?

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No complaints here either. I like dealing with the UK. I can have goods delivered quicker than from the states, often with no duties and less shipping cost.
I guess it is a benefit of still being a colony. lol

Taffy, I think that it is costing you way more than 1% to take a credit card. We take credit cards too (you almost have to , to be in business). If you add up all the charges together from the credit card company and divide them by the sales it comes to nearly 5% in our case. We used to discourage and flat out refuse to takes checks but now we encourage them and take the risk. Our TV ads here in the U.S. are dominated by credit cards companies enticing you to switch to their credit card and they will give you a 2%,3% and sometimes more back on your purchase. This comes directly from the business so prices must be raised as almost everyone wants to pay for everything with a credit card so that they can get some money back. Only gas stations will offer you two prices. One for credit and a lower price for cash. With this cashless society that we are heading toward it must be a great time to be a company that gets between nearly every transaction. The average U.S citizen has between 3 and 4 credit cards. I think that at some point there will be a backlash when consumers finally realize that they are paying dearly for the pittance they receive back from the credit card company for using their card.

I have used Taffmeisters periodically for 8 years for my 05 and 06 Husabergs.
Shipped to California and with seemingly reasonable costs.
I have always got my parts delivered without any problems.
I have also got Husaberg parts from Boss Off Road. No complaints there either.
I will continue to go to both those guys.

pollo

Taffy said:

it is the first time I have heard this? where else was it said?

Taffy

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From 2 guys I ride with......

I guess everyone has different experiences dealing with them.

If you have your own site separate from your ebay store, are your really breaking any ebay policy ? shouldn't you be allowed to sell from any of your sites you wish even if you have directed them there ? People trash ebay and paypal all the time. I think your exaggerating just a tad on the way he conducts things . From what i can see its his business he can do with it as he wants as long as the customers are getting what they ordered , i cant see how that would be any of there business ?