Beware the "additional fee" on eBay invoices

[D. Bergin]

The other possibility. The seller used the "Additional Charge / Discount" box to charge another buyer for an off-ebay purchase to wrap into an Ebay purchase and added it to YOUR box by mistake, while he was making up his invoices.

[Leon]

I probably wouldn't be real happy with a buyer if something got invoiced by mistake and they wanted to undo or cancel the transaction after I said I would fix it. But that is just me....

[drc]

I agree with Leon.

I tend to believe it was an honest mistake. From my experience with complicated web sites, it's easy to double click, check the wrong box, not check the right box and fill in something twice in different spaces. Plus, I don't believe a dishonest person trying to overcharge would double the amount-- too obviously an overcharge even to those who merely speed browse their invoices.

[deadballfreaK]

I once had a guy win several cards off me and when I changed the shipping to a combined total of one dollar I accidentally left out the decimal point (world's worst typist) and he got an invoice for $100 shipping. I got a frantic message about two minutes later saying his wife was about to kill him. I quickly corrected it and the buyer was nice, but I was embarrassed. I'm a lot more careful now. Honest mistakes can happen.