Weare private sellers and make little or no profit from selling on eBay. We are aimingto mostly sell items in order to de-clutter and clear out things we no longerhave an interest in. Therefore we cannot sustain the overheads of other sellersand we are not a business.

So please check our comments and terms below and be aware of them ifyou are bidding. If they are not to your liking then thank you for looking andwe understand why you would not bid. We will not haggle over any of the conditionsbelow, so we would rather you didn’t bid at all.

So, when we post an item it will be posted Royal Mail Signed For, eitherFirst or Second Class. There will be no exceptions to this for small items soplease factor this into the overall cost. For larger items we will use asuitable parcel delivery service and this will also be tracked.

To ensure that we get the right postage we will not use theeBay postage system. This has caused problems regarding the price eBay estimatesfor postage and we will not use it. Items will, instead, be taken to a postoffice and paid for over the counter. Tracking information will therefore notautomatically appear on eBay but we will add it later if required. This is toensure that the correct postage is paid in all cases, which unfortunately hasnot been our experience of the automatic eBay system.

We have also had items returned opened, for example new and sealedrecords, DVDs or CDs. Such items are not suitable for us to re-list and we clearlylose money going from a new item to something that has been open, played, etc.and then returned. We do not offer refunds in such cases and we will onlyaccept items back if they are in the same condition in which we sold them. Thisalso applies to items which are returned with missing parts, such as a new andsealed 2LP set which was returned with one record only (and a demand for a fullrefund).

Automatic re-listing in eBay often result in achange to the item, including the offer price and the postage – we will try andavoid that and all postage will be Signed For. We will cancel any items where thisdoes not appear to be the case. We do not accept bids or offer for any items,so we will ignore these if we see them – they are usually something eBay changeswhen items are automatically relisted.

We will not post internationally withoutprior agreement, and we will not use the eBay international postage system as wehave had problems with it in the past. For example, in posting two items to twodifferent countries, we post these to an address in the UK and eBay apparentlydoes the rest. In one case two items were mixed up and sent to the wrongaddresses. We refunded all the costs associated with this and lost both theitems and a lot of money. Again, automatic re-listing usually changes this aspectof the item description against our wishes. We will cancel any suchbids, and notify you of this should you bid. If we do agree to postinternationally please be aware that the postage quoted in the item descriptionis for the UK only, and that different charges will apply for internationalpostage. Thank you for understanding this.

Thank you for reading and understanding these points. We are sorryif it seems harsh or draconian but we are not selling items to make large profitsand our margins, after ridiculous postage costs and eBay fees over which wehave no influence, are very low. We cannot sustain fraudulent or deceptivesales and we have to cover our postage costs.

So, again, thank you for reading and if these terms are not to yourliking we thank you for your time and understand why you choose not to bid onour items.