eBay final value fees

[mintacular]

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.

[peterose4hof]

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.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by mintacular

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.

That calculator is pretty handy....

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.

[mintacular]

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...

[steve B]

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