About 90% of the items I sell already have limits on the shipping I can
charge. I've found when my shipping is too high, like I have to send it
Priority Mail, then it rarely sells. I regularly have 100 items or more
listed, so the free 50 would last me less than a week, then I have to
endure the posting fees for 3 1/2 weeks of the month. The new fees will
pretty much drive the low cost stuff off of Ebay.
Yes, you do come across that on Ebay, but virtually nobody falls for
it. Then again, if the total price is about right for the item, what's
the big deal? Non-issue completely.
The thing that really antagonized me was buying an AC adapter for my
son's handheld video game. Won the auction for 1 cent and paid 2.99 for
shipping....FROM HONG KONG!!! I would love to pay those kinds of
rates! The last time I shipped something to Hong Kong, the cheapest
rate, w/o insurance was $15.00. That shows you who the real crooks in
shipping prices are.
On 3/19/2011 1:14 PM, Winterlight wrote:
They are trying to stop the sellers who avoid final value fees by, for
example, asking a buy it now fee of 5 dollars, and then a shipping fee
of 25 dollars. You can't buy on Ebay too long, without coming across
this. Actually, I like the idea of not charging submission or buy it
now fees. I have a few items I would like to put on at a high starting
price... like a grand... but I'm not going to do it if it costs me 10
bucks to submit.
At 07:36 AM 3/19/2011, you wrote:
You're entirely correct, however Ebay is spinning it as their 'tax'
will help control shipping costs, because that's what buyers are
complaining about. There's a bit of a disconnect here. My
experience has been when you tax something, the price goes up, not
down!?! Buyers complain about shipping because the cost of shipping
via UPS/USPS/FedEX is too expensive, especially for the little guys.
The little guys support the massive discounts that the big sellers
get. UPS has a 'special deal' on shipping and it's based on
quantity. If you ship like I do, you get a massive 5% off, which
still makes them 25% higher than Media Mail. If your shipping costs
are $1000/week, you get 20% off. Needless to say, it doesn't help
me one bit.
