You're doing too much work then David...I always estimate shipping..I don't weigh anything..I don't measure anything and I don't specify if it's going out in an envelope or box. I either ship priority or first class depending on the item. I'm usually dead on in estimating costs of shipping and I have a 4.85 DSR on shipping and handling charges with 727 ratings in the last 12 months with zero 1 or 2 ratings.

while it isn't a huge issue in the card industry, it does happen, but check something like the cell phone parts industry and it is rampant.

they should just target the sellers who dodging fair and reasonable shipping prices but then that wouldn't be FEE-BAY

How is the FVF determined if you combine shipping at checkout?

From what I understand, you are only charged fees on the amount of shipping that is invoiced/collected. So if you invoice the buyer and include the shipping discount before they pay you will only be charged fvf on the combined shipping amount. If the buyer pays for all of the shipping before you have a chance to combine it you will pay fvf on all of the shipping that is paid.

Ebay has now taken it upon themselves to open up unpaid item cases on their own. I won a minor league score book from a guy here in my hometown last month and went and paid him in person at his house...apparently he did not mark the item paid...yesterday I got a notice that said I have until Friday to pay him or I will get a strike against my account. I emailed the seller and he said he did not open up the case against me.

That's the reason. Just target the sellers trying pull fast ones. I've seen a ton of things sold at "buy it now" prices for a $1 or so, but with $10 shipping just to get around Ebay fees. They really should warn and then boot those taking advantage of the system.

I spend an hour on the phone with a rep. She told me that the FVF will be on each listing sold and it is up to the seller to refund the difference if they wish, but the eBay fee will be taken first.

What?

So you're saying an Ebay rep told you that Ebay is taking their final value fee on the shipping listed in each auction, regardless of if you combine shipping in an after auction invoice or not.

I recently had a guy from England win 20+ lots from me in one auction. The Ebay invoice before I combined was over $150 in shipping costs. I reduced it to around 30 bucks. Is Ebay going to take their 8% out of the $150 instead of the $30?