Do you leave negative feedback for excessive shipping?

Hot Springs Bathers · #1 04-30-2016, 04:42 PM

I have a question for you guys that do sell on eBay. Do you have to use the eBay shipping system or do you just process and mail on your own?

D. Bergin · #2 04-30-2016, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

I have a question for you guys that do sell on eBay. Do you have to use the eBay shipping system or do you just process and mail on your own?

I use Stamps.com for most packages, and it sends the tracking info back to Ebay.

Will use Ebay for Internationals because they give better discounts for that. Ebay used to give discounts for heavier Priority packages, but not so much anymore.

Stamps still showing $2.60 to me for 3 oz's and under. Doesn't make much difference though, since I pack everything heavier then 3oz's anyways, even if it's just a card. You could say it's wasteful, but it's going to get where it's going in the same shape it left in.

irv · #3 04-30-2016, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeLyon

Unless the seller has $100s of dollars tied up in old stamps that aren't worth any more than face value. Then it is not silly or unnecessary.

Not likely, but I guess it's a possibility?

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Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

That isn't the seller. That is EBay. Ebay is charging that fee. Sellers ship it to a center in Kentucky and wipe their hands of it.

It's a sellers choice whether they choose to use E-Bay shipping or not.

The majority of the cards I purchase now are way cheaper than Global and certainly cheaper than the price of the card I am purchasing.

Global is expensive and on the cards I purchase, is sometimes double and triple the price of the card.

It makes zero sense purchasing a $4.00-$5.00 card only to have to pay $14.00 dollars+ in shipping fees plus another few bucks for import fees which get applied using the Global shipping as well.

Most I usually pay now, to my door, is $4-$5 or less.

nat · #4 04-30-2016, 08:09 PM

Shipping is just part of the cost of the card. If the card is worth $X to you, you pay up to $X to have it. And part of having it is having it sent to you. Neither the buyer nor the seller should care what the shipping cost is. If you charge $40 for shipping buyers are just going to bid $(X-40) for it. How the cost is distributed between the card and the shipping charge really doesn't matter.

So no, don't leave negative feedback for high shipping charges. Just put in a lower bid than you would otherwise.

Tabe · #5 04-30-2016, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

I have a question for you guys that do sell on eBay. Do you have to use the eBay shipping system or do you just process and mail on your own?

I use the eBay system because you get a 10% discount on the postage, which basically covers the fees on the shipping.

sbfinley · #6 05-01-2016, 02:01 AM

If you live out of the country, especially Canada, do one of the following.

A. Find someone stateside you trust to collect your purchases and ship all together once a month.

Or easier:

B. Set up a COMC account and have all your purchases shipped there. You can bundle and and ship groups whenever you feel like it. Your monthly fees will be drastically less than you pay in shipping for your purchases.

begsu1013 · #7 05-01-2016, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

I have a question for you guys that do sell on eBay. Do you have to use the eBay shipping system or do you just process and mail on your own?

i don't sell much on ebay, but when i do, i use my own fedex account and simply upload the tracking number to the system.

card delivered the next day or so and don't have to play the waiting/worry game that coincides w/ the usps or swap 20 messages about what they should do or where is it.

i also don't charge for shipping, one less thing anyone can b!tch about.

"time" is the ultimate commodity.

kmac32 · #8 05-01-2016, 03:46 PM

Negative feedback for excessive shipping is uncalled for. Bidders know the shipping if they read the listing and nobody is forced to bid so negatives should not be allowed. Now poor packaging is a different story in my opinion.

steve B · #9 05-01-2016, 07:46 PM

Shipping can be strange sometimes.

When I was active I shipped internationally and didn't have any problems. But all the stuff that went international was cheap. I did have a buyer in Germany ask how much the partial Victrola would cost to ship. (About 50Lbs packed, actually an upright machine that someone cut the useful part off of. Ugly but worked great)

For small stuff like one card or some small bike parts I had a flat price that was just above postage, at the time around $2. International at cost. What got weird was that for a very light package Shipping to Canada and most of western Europe was actually around 1.50. So the international buyers got a pretty good deal.
I figured packing materials as an expense. I reused a lot, and got a huge batch of bubble mailers for CDs from a friend who bought a vanload of shipping supplies from someone who quit Ebay selling.

One of the parts I had a lot of I was selling for $15 a set. And sold around 10 sets a week. Ebay started pushing free shipping, so I figured I'd give it a try - they might have offered some deal like no insertion fee. So I made it $20 with no shipping. And sales nearly doubled

Since I did stamps and general antiques and odd stuff, I got some interesting requests. A guy from Japan who collected postage meter envelopes asked me to ship his stuff by surface mail which was being cancelled at the end of the month. The poor guy at the post office tried for about 15 minutes but the system wouldn't allow a letter to got surface. (They were ok with trying since I usually had everything entirely ready to go, and knew the rules about what I could send with what service)

Fun stuff, I kinda miss it. I don't miss the LCD buyers they really tried to attract. "Shipping is $2, international at cost"
"How much to ship to Kansas"

Steve B

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