Out of the blue today I got a message from a guy on eBay about this ice axe I have listed for sale. I'd picked it up on sale at an antique mall for a reasonable price and did my research and priced it accordingly. It is a vintage Stubai ice axe made in Austria. Normally people just message you on eBay to ask random questions about something you are selling. This guy doesn't say hi, or how is your mother. He just tells me the postage I'm charging to ship the ice axe when it is sold is "ridiculous."
My response was very polite. I don't control how much is charged for postage. It is based on the size, weight and destination of what you sell. I tell him this and suggest that if he can find a cheaper way of shipping it, let me know.
His response is that I do control the postage cost and I should look at other ice axes for sale to see how much shipping should be.
This pisses me off because there is nothing polite about this asshole. He is basically accusing me of trying to make a profit off from postage.
So I check the listing and I do discover that I've made a mistake in the dimensions of the ice axe which have probably inflated the shipping cost estimate. But I can't correct the mistake because I have made offers to some potential buyers for the the thing and once you've made an offer, you can't change details like the size of the item in the shipping area.
So I do the rational thing. I take the ice axe off the market temporarily. And then I block the asshole who was accusing me of postage gouging so he can't buy it anyway once I fix the size and reduce the postage. If he had been polite about it I would have tried bargaining with him and lowering the item price to make up of the postage. But I'm not going to reward a rude asshole.
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