Just happened to me today....
Last week a won a small schedule booklet in an auction for $9.99 (the opening bid). The postage in the auction listing is noted at $8.00 but says that it's USPS Priority Mail. My thinking is $5 and change for a small flat rate box plus about $2 insurance coverage - $8 total shipping is about right for insured priority mail. The envelope with booklet inside arrives today with $2.07 total postage on it (which includes the USPS tracking). I send a message to the seller asking why I didn't get what I paid for - asking why the auction listing states USPS Priority Mail and it was sent first class? What I get is a somewhat terse lecture about how $2.07 is just postage it doesn't include the delivery confirmation or his private insurance (which by the way he assures me is cheaper than what the post office charges) or his packing material. No mention or answer to my question of why it wasn't sent Priority Mail. I point out again that the auction listing says priority mail and it was sent first class. I also point out that the $2.07 does include the USPS tracking, his packing material were basically recycled material (which I'm all for) and that insurance from the post office would have been about $2 for a $50 item. His response was that I basically have no clue what I'm talking about and feel free to leave him feedback noting my complaint. That's exactly what he got - negative feedback. Be careful what you ask for - sometime you'll get it.
The worst part is that he's got really nice stuff. Old civil war letters, cabinets, football stuff, hockey stuff, etc... If he would have listed the item at $18 with free shipping I probably would have still bid on it. What I don't like is having something (in this case postage service) being misrepresented and then being told that I don't know what I'm talking about.
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