That reminds me of eBay and the many horror stories I had over the years. In fact, here's one for your entertainment:
I used to buy a load of stuff from the UK (Amiga games and retro PC games mostly) and many would ship to Belgium but would have no postage amount or would show the UK postage for all locations.
Back then, Royal Mail let you send an old fashioned big PC cardboard game box for £4 which was rather cheap and with the cost of a box to send it in, you'd usually only pay £6 tops.
However, one seller listed a price of £5 per box. Usually sellers combine and then only charge the actual postage cost but oh no, this person charged it PER ITEM. Since he sold quite a few games I wanted for little (£1-2 per game) I thought the postage cost was worth it. So I bought about 6 games and got an invoice of £70. I nearly fell off my chair! He had changed postage to £10 PER BOX and said that the £5 was for UK only.
He said that he only sent insured items to Europe (which was not mentioned on his eBay page at all). I tried to cancel the auctions and he then suddenly said: fine, if you pay £6 postage per game I'll do it. £36 for 6 boxes is still a lot of money considering I knew that Royal Mail would send it for half that amount. But heck, I got the games cheap (no-one else bid on them) so I shelled over the money.
Two weeks later, I received a very weird thing in the mail - about two inches high and a little larger than a game box but it was squishy. At first I thought it was a single game but with bubble wrap or so around it. When I opened it, to my horror I discovered that the guy had ripped the edges of the boxes open and flattened them all and had removed all the manuals. The disks were crammed in there as well. The actual value of these games have become ZERO. I was outraged - the value on the package said £6 and UNINSURED.
Livid, I sent him a message through eBay, asking him what the hell he was trying to pull: he wrecked the goods to save a few pounds even when I had paid him more than enough to have them shipped INCLUDING the manuals and without them getting squashed. He basically replied (to my email, not via eBay) saying that since I got the games far too cheap, he had to "cut costs" even though I had clearly paid £36 for shipping. He had basically stolen £30 from me and I immediately opened a case with Paypal with a scan of the packaging (which was just a newspaper with brown duct tape across it with a label on).
Of course he left a very negative review about me ripping him off and refusing to pay postage but Paypal refunded me and eBay removed the negative review too. Funny enough, of the same auction of games, three people gave negative feedback involving the games becoming damaged - I guess some people don't understand what makes these games valuable!
