One of the items I recently bought off Ebay was an oil canvass set from China. I have visions of block-mounting the items and hanging them in the lounge, to match the new decor.

So, I bought the set. The postage cost out of China is a huge $43 and the so-called 'postage and handling costs' is just a ruse by the vendors to rip you off on top of your nominal purchase price. (It was approximately $50).

I knew all of this prior to finalising the purchase but decided to go ahead anyway, as the pic was just what I wanted and it saves me rummaging through overpriced Australian art shops where you pay 4 times the price but all you get is a bloody print.. 

So I get the goods - fair enough, and also get prompted to comment on the Ebay seller's account service.

Well, diddling you on the administrative costs is a bit cheeky even if you accept that you are being diddled. I thought that the right thing to do was to rate the postage costs on the low end of the scale and to comment that the costs were too high. I didn't slag them in any other way. You get what you pay for after all. The following however, is their rating of me as a purchaser...



I am a 'buyer of craftiness' - a 'dishonest buyer' apparently. How I can be dishonest when I am on the paying end of the transaction, I do not know, but I guess I shall take the criticism on board. 

In fact, I'm feeling remorseful to the point where I may hang myself from the wall instead of the pictures.

That's it for me, I can't visit the Olympics now. I'll be shot on site or worse still, incarcerated and forced to watch endless Kung Fu movies...