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I bought 2 diff lots recently of 130 cards or so each and was charged an appropriate amount for shipping. I never saw the packaging but did get a note for $20 postage due. It’s been over a month and still waiting for the cards to ship back to me. Still curious how the post office came up with that amount.

I fortunately have not had the postage due problem. Yet.

With the Ebay standard envelope the only problem I have had is tracking issues. I absolutely hate when the sellers don't mention when the item is shipped and never provides a tracking number. Then there are the times when the Ebay tracking system will show the envelope was entered into the mail system but never updates the tracking. I had one card a few months back that showed the item was still at the original post office it entered the system at.. Fortunately the card did arrive, but the tracking still showed it at the point of origin post office. If it showed up in my shipping history it would still be showing it was at the point of origin PO. Then most often the standard envelope tracking will mention the envelope as being "out for delivery" a day or two before it actually gets delivered. 

I've never had postage due from an eBay purchase, but I've had it happen with TCDB trades multiple times.  My success rate in getting reimbursed by the other trader is about 50/50.

Never had postage due problem.

My biggest complaint is when they charge a couple bucks for shipping and then you get the card in a PWE with basic postage.  Don't charge $3+ for shipping if you are going to ship using the bare minimum.  That's just dishonest.

Even worse than that, ebay charges tax on the postage also....

Ebay also adds in the postage to set the "Selling Fee"..

So what used to save a seller money on fees, doesn't anymore....

It's been a while since I've had postage due, but I've had some fun lately.

Twice in the last month, I've had to get eBay involved for a full refund because the seller never shipped the item and wouldn't respond to messages. Both were "new" accounts with no feedback, which I'm usually pretty wary of, but they listed a couple of cards I'd been looking for for years.

Also in the last couple of months, I had a card never ship and finally heard back from the seller. He had been deployed sometime between listing the item and me buying it and had told his son to ship it. That did not happen, but at least he refunded me.

Several listings where the seller used the eBay suggestion for a card that was not at all correct.

Yesterday, I won an auction for a card that started at $9.99 and ended at $29. The seller had put the eBay standard envelope for cards, etc ($1.05) as the primary shipping but since it went over $20, that wasn't actually an option. The auto-invoice right after the auction ended had the shipping as $1.05, which is what I ended up paying. Seller then messages me that I was supposed to change the shipping to regular first class before paying. I got eBay involved because either eBay's system screwed up by not auto-adjusting the shipping based on their own rules or the seller, by adding a note in the description a week after starting the auction, messed up the system. Either way, I'm just not going to send any more money. This wasn't my screw-up and I paid the total that was shown at the postage rate that was posted when I bid. Seller should never have had the standard card envelope option on there to begin with since the card in question pretty much always goes for more than $20.

Speaking of the eBay standard card envelope, the way it ends up working for me is that the tracking doesn't update properly, it gets marked delivered when it gets dropped off at my local PO so then I never know when it will actually show up, and as far as I can tell, the post office hates these and gives them zero priority or secure handling. Also doesn't help that my delivery people are lazy grumpy employees that act like it's a major headache to deliver my mail.

Regarding tracking, if it's a day I'm at home, I can actually hear the beep of the mailman's RF gun or whatever, because my recliner is close to the front door.  So I know I have cards before I check the mailbox.  He actually scans it right at my door.