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eBay final value fees
I haven't sold anything on ebay since they changed their fees to charge 9% on all buyer costs including shipping.
Decided to list a few items last night........... For all you ebay selling regulars: Is there any reason to not offer free shipping? Thanks, Tony |
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Free Shipping
Ebay buyers are funny! They do not like to pay shipping costs. For example, I once listed an item for BIN $99.99 with $5.00 shipping and got no takers. I relisted the item for 109.99 with free shipping and it sold within hours of listing. Since then I have listed all my items with free shipping with the cost of shipping and the additional ebay % factored in. I have quit trying to figure Ebay buyers out!
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Shipping
Here is a fee calculator, you can adjust with free vs. shipping cost and see what the difference is. For example on a $50 item sold you save about .50 cent in fees if free shipping offered....http://www.newlifeauctions.com/calc.html
In my opinion, reasonable chipping with "free or reduced" shipping for multiple items is the way to go i.e. $2-3 for first item, the rest .25/ea kinda thing... I don't see that as a seller that I should pay shipping out of my pocket. Last edited by mintacular; 08-10-2011 at 08:16 AM. |
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Food for thought
Keep in mind....
If you are a Top-Rated Seller the 20% discount only applies to the sale price of the item, not the shipping. So as often as possible if you are a top-rated seller you should offer free shipping and price it into the price of the item. |
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Maybe I'm over simplifying this. If I sell an item for $100 with free shipping, I net the same $ as if it sold for $98 with $2 shipping. Either way I still pay the same amount for shipping and walk away with the same net gain. Maybe that scenario changes with store owners etc. |
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Not exactly
I don't think you should pay $3 out of your pocket to ship the item, that cost should be incurred by the buyer...As long as the ship $ is reasonable, wouldn't you rather pocket $103 than $100? On higher $ cards most people phase out/ignore minimal shipping and understand that is part of the $ to pay on a card and people won't bid much if any less with free shipping...
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when I was selling regularly I switched a few items to free shipping. And increased the price by slightly more than I was charging for shipping. I figured there wouldn't be much difference.
Sales of those items increased by about 25%! And no more silly questions about shipping- "shipping $2 in the US international at cost" - How much to ship to California? ?!?!? If you're running margins so tight that a couple bucks for shipping is a problem, then you're doing it wrong anyway. Steve B |
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One other thing that I've changed is listing prices. In the past, all of my listings were at whole dollar amounts. I've noticed that items tend to draw more bids if the starting price has a $.99 or $.49 suffix. If I want $50 for an item, I'll list the starting bid out at $49.99 instead of $50.00.... seems to work pretty well on items that I've had to relist multiple times. |
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As I've said before. Free shipping may be an advantage to sellers with stores selling lots of "Buy It Now" items.
For sellers running true auctions at lower starting bids, it makes zero financial sense. That being said, I probably shouldn't bitch about the fees too much. I just made a sale on Amazon.com for the first time in months for a $19 book, and the fees came to about 28%. |
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If a buyer will pay $100 for a card and no more, they will bid $100 with free shipping or they will bid $95 with $5 shipping. Either way, the seller collects $100 and pays for the shipping. |
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