Ah, the fun and games....
Seems the small items I bid upon, which the check-out process hinted would be posted to my locale, aren't going to be posted to me after all.
Instead, they were being shipped to their depot, in Melbourne.
I'm a bit annoyed about this - I paid what I was led to believe was a postage charge at checkout, but now I'm told it wasn't that at all. Then the guy from the auctioneers phoned me, and said they'd be shipped to a depot and posted from there, and I was told there may be an additional postage, which wasn't a problem, and then call back next week to find out what it would be.
The guy was called back on Monday morning. Now I'm told that, no, my lots won't be posted, and the lots have to be picked up "by your courier from our Melbourne depot"....
... and then the morning later, I get an SMS saying "your Taree ... items have now arrived at Lloyds Carrara ... for collection".....
WTAF? Now they're in Brisbane! Or are they?
Well, nobody knows; they're MIA. Lost. So a refund is pending. Still pending. From the middle of February.
Did I write that I was a bit annoyed.... oh, pardon me, might update status to 'highly pissed off' about this. If they hasn't misled me into believing these smaller items could and would to be posted, subject to paying an extra fee of course, then I would have arranged to have them picked up with the stuff which they said was 'pickup only' and saved the hassle.
@ToomanyVolvos asked why so many lots didn't get bids - now I can see why. It's nice being able to buy some bits for a a few bucks, but no courier wants to ship the sodding things unless you're a corporate.