Do you leave negative feedback for excessive shipping?

[begsu1013]

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]

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]

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