Ebay sellers - high shipping cost even after eBay took part of pie?

[ibuysportsephemera]

In the link below is an article about eBay sellers being suspended for having low DSR scores. Charge excessive S&H and for sure you will get dinged on your DSR's and it could lead to being kicked off eBay.

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m11/i06/s01


Jeff

[steve B]

When I was selling regularly I had a few bike parts that sold well and I had a lot of them. Not expensive, something like $15 plus $2 shipping. I've always done a set price in the US and international at cost.

That made it odd, because I was sending them to Canada and I think a couple other countries for less than $2.

When Ebay changed to pushing free shipping with DSRs, I did a small experiment. I listed some at $20 with free shipping anywhere. That Just barely covered a couple countries, but none I'd ever actually sold to. It also gave me a bit more profit. I figured sales would be less. Wrong I sold about 3x as many, even with the old $15 listing still up.

So I switched everything to free shipping and added a little to the price.
That actually worked too.

Steve B