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people asking to much for s+h on ebay
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08-14-2008, 05:06 PM
mynamehere
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I agree with Roadblock Recall. You should always know how much *total* you are willing to pay then subtract the shipping cost to figure your max bid. If not, that is your mistake. No one ever complains about "free" shipping listings on ebay. Yeah maybe some sellers do overcharge, but shipping is not "free" either for the seller, so it goes both ways. Just adjust your max bid accordingly, you should bid lower when shipping cost is high, and you can bid higher when shipping cost is low. Also, you can easily sort ebay listings by "price+shipping".
If you've ever tried to sell on ebay, you'd probably understand more. Ebay takes almost 9% of every sale under $25, paypal takes almost 3%. That is close to 12% total of sale off the top from the seller. There is also ebay listing fee that is tiered based on starting listing price, so it costs seller less to list at a lower start price. Important to note that the shipping/handling cost is not used to calculate the ebay fees. So by lowering the listing start price and adding it back into the shipping/handling cost, seller doesn't have to pay as much fees to ebay. For example if seller needs to sell a figure for at least $5 total to cover their costs, it would cost them less in ebay fees to list $.99 start and $4 shipping/handling, versus list $2.99 start and $2 shipping/handling. But either way, its the same exact total for the buyer. If you noticed there were more "free" shipping listings recently because ebay was really pushing and promoting it. Why? Because ebay makes more money in fees with the "free" shipping. Sometimes ebay is a necessary evil, so when I sell stuff I estimate the ebay/paypal fees and stick that into the shipping/handling cost. With gas prices now the trip to the post office isn't cheap either.
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