OT: Excessive shipping - does ebay care?

[jcc6252]

VCP does not handle shipping variances correctly. Depending on the amount, excessive shipping charges can greatly skew the VCP price of a card. For example, if a $20 card sells for $15, plus $5 shipping, VCP records it as a $15 sale. If it sells for $20, with free shipping, the sales price now becomes $20. Basically, VCP is flawed, and should be using the grand total.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by jcc6252

VCP does not handle shipping variances correctly. Depending on the amount, excessive shipping charges can greatly skew the VCP price of a card. For example, if a $20 card sells for $15, plus $5 shipping, VCP records it as a $15 sale. If it sells for $20, with free shipping, the sales price now becomes $20. Basically, VCP is flawed, and should be using the grand total.

Then you would have all the instances where a single buyer buys a bunch of cards from the same seller at once in order to combine shipping. (ex. they buy 5 $15 cards from the same buyer, and is charged $5-$7 for the same shipment).

Are you going to tack on the initial $5.00 charge to each card? I don't think VCP has a magical software tool to access the actual charged invoices of every individual purchase. Best to keep it as simple as possible. Only thing I can think to do would be to automatically knock a couple bucks off the price of FREE SHIPPING sales, to bring things a bit more in line.

[jcc6252]

Good point!