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I love giving my customers the cheapest shipping rate I can. I found that sending things parcel is the best. As a seller, you make no extra money doing this, but I think the buyers appreciate this. The flat rate legal sized envelopes are nice too. You can fit a lot in those.
I have just under 500 listings and I use flat rate shipping on about 90% of them and free shipping on the rest. I try and keep shipping cost to a minimum, I have come up short a few times, but overall it works out just fine. I have never used calculates shipping for the reasons you mentioned in your video (The cranberry Pyrex to CA for $79).
Kevin you’re adorable with and without the hat! 😊
I was gonna say as soon as I saw the beginning of the video that your hair looks pretty awesome with the “wet punk” look! 😂I had a double dose of your picker and flipper videos this morning! That last picker with all of your buddies was just awesome- great score on the Cabbage Patch dolls! Happy you have Sarah to back you up! Awesome profits!💰💵 Great shipping explanation! I learned everything from you awhile back! I do flat shipping a lot! I do always put or “best offer” …I do counteroffer a lot with a nice note and usually that’ll work!
Love your A&W Root Beer shirt!! Keep selling those Family Guy stuff! Thanks 🙏 for always posting videos - helps me get through the morning!!❤ from your Baltimore girl!
I use Best Offer on a high percentage of my listings. I do receive some laughably low offers but overall I think it helps my business. I think psychologically buyers like to believe they are receiving a great deal even though the offer price they send may not be much lower than the listed price. Also if I have a quantity listing with 5, or 10, or 20 items, etc. I am usually willing to accept a much lower per item price if they want to buy a number of the same item.
When I use best offer, I always set the parameters, so I don’t have to deal with messages back-and-forth. Thanks Kevin for all of your thoughts and experiences on reselling! 💕 This gramma loves Turners jokes! 💕
I used to set the parameters.. but then it seems like I will get a low ball offer and the system feels sorry for me and throws it up in search and it sells within a few days for full price! 😂 But really… it happens!
My sales on eBay have been 💩for the last the last 4 months….in Jan I had a lot,of great sales, in Feb some decent ones, but since then just a trickle. I even revamped all my listings, re-comp’d everything; adjusted prices, as needed, updated shipping options (with about half a flat shipping rate, depending on weigh/class; and some free shipping-mostly media), made sure everything was listed with “Best Offer”. Fortunately, I resell for fun, not to make a living (retired military).
Ty for your service
Best offer is turned on for all my items. I do not do free shipping at all. People say offer free shipping and just build the cost of shipping into your price. Yeah there's one major issue with that. So lets say you sell an item, the person opens a return because they just didn't like it. Well now when they ship it back to you, you have to refund them 100% of the purchase price including that free shipping cost you built into that price. Had you charged shipping you would only have to refund the actual cost of the item and not the shipping cost.
Also to combat those outrageous shipping prices to half the country using calculated shipping, make sure you put 12x12x12 as your package size and then update it to the actual size when your item sells. Doing this will give your customers fair shipping prices regardless of where they are in the country when using USPS.
I use flat rate shipping on EVERYTHING and have for 2 years. I have set it up where the customer saves about a Buck or 2 and sometimes it swings back in my favor. I love it. Each amount I set is based on projected weight. (4.40,4.95,5.50,5.95 etc)
Twisted Metal Game: I was surprised to see the $30 game in a cracked case. It’s pretty easy to swap them or just keep a stash of empties around that were found missing the discs. You can always “harvest” a few good cases from the next low value lot you sell, swapping the $2 games into the cracked cases to keep better ones.
I couldn’t understand that either. The cases could have been changed with another case easily. Or isn’t that the case?
@@claire2d268 It has been awhile since I had any around, but as I recall the old Playstation cases work the same way as the old CD cases, as far as taking the label and disc holder portion out, to swap the label and any inserts into an undamaged case from another old playstation game. When its the front portion of the case that has the crack, I seem to recall those come off the hinge pins and can be swapped over too, like a CD case.
I have never used calculated shipping.
Flat on 99%.
I do 100% of my listing on my phone.
Few specifics and no rules set up.
No best offers. Buying now or say goodbye.
Keeping it simple works for me.
Most days I am overwhelmed with sales.
Really looking forward to a couple of slower weeks in July.
I want to do flat rate shipping on almost everything but somehow have to pick the right medium price for different weights. Maybe after the July shipping changes. I wish there was are chart of everybody's ideas. I thinks it would make this easier and just a little more fair for long distance shipping frtom Ohio.
Kevin I ship calculated with the buyer paying ship on 99% of my items. As for best offer, I currently have one item with a best offer and have the settings set up so I don’t get lowball offers. The item is listed at $725. Thanks for sharing Kevin.
Exactly what I do.
I personally like calculated shipping because it separates the item price from the shipping price when the buyer is looking at an item in my store, and it gives them a more up-front and realistic idea why the shipping cost may be a bit higher the further it has to be shipped. It is also a bit better for dealing with returns, and for tax purposes I think.
I've got best offer on about 90% of my items and I only recently did that now that I've got more time to handle orders. I've always done calculated shipping and I offer different shipping options. I have done that for years
Hey Kevin! I am not too far from you - about an hour and 1/2. I am also an educator, going on 22 years. I’ve been reselling part time for 9 years and would love to grow and maybe retire early and focus on reselling. Always love your content! ❤️
I could be wrong, but think you have to set up policies in order to set up the "standard shipping" mentioned at approx 7:40. This is likely the reason you can't select it from the app. I do calculated shipping and my shipping preferences are set to pass along eBay's negotiated discounted rates to the customer. Flat rate scares me and I dropped free shipping after getting burned. Good video. Thanks for what you do!
💯 you have to have policies to do this. Never free shipping here 👩🌾
Final Fantasy 7 comes in a double disc case and contains 3 discs. The one you showed was in a standard single disc case. It may not be complete, but it certainly isn't in the original case. Just pointing it out. Still a good deal.
I stopped doing best offers 2 years ago. Part-time seller, was taking too much time.
just squeeze everything you sell into a padded flat rate envelope- problem solved!
I put best offer on everything and then block low offers. Best offer is supposed to help in the algorithm. The only thing I don't do is free returns/shipping. I think I have everything else set to "best for the algorithm". I think free shipping/returns on most products creates bad customers.
I let ebay do it's thing with shipping. If it's a big difference I refund. I had one that ordered multiple and ebay didn't adjust it and...yeah I refunded like $50.
I have 4500 listing and everything over $5 has best offer on. All my motu items I parted out and made so much more money
All items promoted, all items have best offer and all items are calculated shipping.
I do calculated shipping. The discount I receive usually covers my costs. I also do everything Best offer.
I do best offer on every item I list. Do calculated shipping on every listing. Don' t do free shipping because of the huge difference between areas near me as opposed to the west coast etc.
I used to do free shipping on everything below a pound but I have switched over to calculated because I sell weird random stuff which means sometimes it sits for a long time. So I've had items sit for a while and then shipping prices go up and then I put a sale on old items and end up losing money. Charging calculated shipping let's me know I'm at least not going to lose money on anything.
But it does result in less sales.
Aamen this is how I have done shipping and I have been a multichannel seller full time since 98' I only do flat rate shipping on items that ship first class and free shipping on expensive items $50 or more that ship first class or media mail. With calculated shipping you will never be on the hook for paying buyers shipping buyers shouid always be responsible for paying shipping no matter if the shipping cost $8 or $200 buyers are to coddled these days when it comes to shipping this really needs to stop if sellers want to be in the hole on shipping more power to then but when buyers complain about shipping there a headache waiting to happen they are uneducated when it comes to shipping and handling and for sure I educate then on how exactly shipping works
@@ilj1259nope not in 25 years!
We started out doing Best Offers on items, but we stopped after having non payments on quite a few items over a period of time. If eBay fixes the issue, I'll start doing Best Offers again.
Months ago ebay stated they were going to make payments automatic with accepted offers. Still hasn't happened. I don't allow offers on anything I sell. Buy it now only with immediate payment required only. In spite of that I do occasionally get messages offering to buy something I have listed at a reduced price. My response to that is "not accepting offers". Usually I also block the originator of the message making the offer. If I were to get that kind of message from a returning customer I might consider it but that has never happened.
My non payers on best offer sales is less than 1 percent.
I can understand the frustration with non paying customers.
I always charge shipping since i do free returns. That's an interesting idea to change the package dimensions on calculated shipping; i never thought of that! Love Reagan's Def Leppard tshirt, I've been to several concerts
I'm off the camp that everybody can do whatever works best for their business and that's not my business!! However, if you're asking me....I do calculated buyer pays. I'm in the middle of the country and it's pretty reasonable for me to ship wherever. Super easy to do.
Leaving money on the table with the best offer on all listings. eBay trained their consumers; there is no penalty not to pay. Hoping to get paid? Leaving money on the table. Attracting problem buyers and no more constant time-wasting notifications. Buyers know when they get auto-denied and keep trying. I've tried both ways, and life is so much better without it. I am trying to figure out what it feels like not to get paid. Calculated shipping is the best.
Most of my items have flat rate shipping, and I do very well with my sales because of it. I do not normally do free shipping because I lose money when I do.
I have been selling for 26 years now and also have List Perfectly. For a long time I would start my listing on eBay and then cross list because it's what I was most familiar with. After hearing the Pro's of starting my listing directly on LP I begrudgingly made the change. It was the best thing I have done. In the notes section I always put the weight and dimensions. If you do calculated and your reducing the weight/dimensions to save buyers on shipping, then put that in your notes section. When your wife cross lists she would have that information.
I just recently went from calculated to flat rate for the reasons you stated. Not everything but 98% of my listings. I wasn't being competitive with calculated and my sales on heavier items have increased.
When you do flat rate shipping, do you still buy the shipping label from eBay?
I list almost everything over 1lb as Parcel Select which we all know is changing. I will upgrade to Priority in a majority of cases that costs me less than $1 or 2 if there’s slack in my sales price.
I don’t know if the slower shipping hinders more than the lower price helps. ..
I am in the Hat Kevin camp, however I am a 60 year old man and married, so if you want to keep sleeping with your wife, I would go no hat.
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I always do Calculated shipping I don't want to be stuck paying
I use calculated shipping for everything. Combine shipping is for discounts.😊
Definitely no-hat Kevin! I do a combo for shipping and those dang shipping policies. Hoping that’ll get easier with the usps change. You kinda answered a question I have. Putting standard shipping, you can choose how to send at the time of shipment?
I use Best Offer for about 95% of sales. Shipping depends but I'm doing more and more flat rate shipping fees. I think it's easier to the buyer to help them calculate their final price paid. The only time I do free shipping is if I have a ton of room between what I paid and my selling price
I usually use calculated shipping but will provide free and flat rate shipping when the item comps dictate the necessity to use those.
I agree it is hard to explain your reasoning why you do what you do with shipping to others. Once you do it for awhile it just makes sense.
I do flat rate shipping. It’s working great for me!
Out of over 2500 items listed I have zero that use “best offer”.
I had been using calculated shipping on pretty much anything over first class. I was using “free shipping” on all of our first class items but I am changing that with all new listings and most of my older active listings. They will become calculated for 2 reasons:
1. Being a top ranked seller, I get a discount on the shipping labels (if a buyer pays $5.65 I might pay $4.42)
2. When I send a 5% offer, the percentage is on the list price not the shipping. If an item is $20 shipped and I send a 5% offer the offer is $19. But if it’s $14.50 plus $5.50 shipping, the 5% offer is $.73 off instead of $1 off. Not only will I make money on the shipping but the discount is $.27 less.
That may not seem like much but added up over time it makes sense.
Yep most don't like to use there heads mathematically that way as many have said they like it the simplest way but simplest doest mean the best and if your losing money by being on the hook for the buyers shipping if using the simplest way then it's definitely not the best way to do it
I'm always amazed at how resistant people are of using the Ebay Business/Shipping Policies. Makes things so much easier.
Some people have so many policies and no description I just move on. Ebay has plenty of policies. I'm not even sure they honor policies you add to your description as who will enforce them and do they conflict with the platform user agreement?
@@thewayidoit8895 I'm talking about Ebay Business Policies as in "Shipping Policies" that Kevin was referring to in the video. Has nothing to do with what is shown in the listing. 😊
Love the no hat Kevin videos. I charge calculated on everything. Over a pound I use parcel select but then ship Priority with the Ebay discount. Makes for great reviews when they get the item so fast. of course, this all changes on the 9th so I'll have to reevaluate.
Flat Rate Shipping and Family is another good point. My wife takes pics and drafts listings, but rarely does the shipping so lacks real time knowledge of shipping costs and how each sold item is likely to ship: USPS First Class, Priority, Ground or FedEx. So each time there is a big rate change I give her a cheat sheet with weights vs the Flat Rate cost to insert. It’s as much as she wants to know and she has me check her choice as I make the listing go live in my laptop.
Like you, I’ve been doing it so long I make the choice and price without much thought and when there is a big change like Ground Advantage, do some comparison research between rates until it once again becomes routine, until the next change. It’s easier to tell someone something like: if it can fit in a Priority Padded Bubble Mailer and my label cost is $8.30. Then insert a Flat Rate of $9.79 and do that for each type of package, then have each person make different choices. Simplicity is good and the more staff, simple is even better.
I always sold small and lightweight items, mostly due to physical disabilities. Always used calculated shipping with standard weights for the smaller stuff, because the USPS charged the same anyway. Combined shipping often meant the second item shipped free. When I set a Best Offer, I always included a minumum - kept the low-ballers out of my hair. All of my stuff was rock bottom to start with and the listed price was already my best offer.
You are going to make your kid use her savings for her COLLEGE?!?! Geez……
That’s your job. You spend YOUR SAVINGS! Let her keep hers for her future. For her family and for HER kids one day. Good grief. 🤦🏽♀️🤣
You are shameless! Unbelievable. 🤦🏽♀️
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99% of my store is calculated shipping.
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Remember with best offer it does open the four day window to pay. I dont stress about when they pay or non payers just relist. But might bother some people if they want to be paid right away.
I get tons of sales with Best Offer. The percentage of non payers is very small. I quit stressing about it, too
I do best offer on everything, I very rarely do free shipping because I ALWAYS lose money. Today I had a free shipping on a $13.50 video game, they messaged me with a $10 offer!! Really, why? When I already had it lower than most and free shipping, if I took the $10, it would cost $4 to ship, $3 cog, taxes and eBay, I would owe eBay money! I always give a discount, I just don’t like such low ball offers!
99% we do calculated shipping. Occasionally, I will do free shipping when my competition is all free shipping. As far as accepting offers, I get SO MANY LOW BALLERS! Got one today, my price is $35, the offer was $10. C'mon people, stop with the silly low ball offers. The main problem I have against free shipping, is I have to build it into my asking price (higher). So I set it assuming the buyer is on the West Coast. Then when I get a buyer close by, they are overpaying on the shipping.
Blazing Saddles my absolute FAVORITE movie. Reminds me of my daddy. I can recite the whole thing.
shipping - I always put parcel select so they get discount but them upgrade them to either priority on my dime or cubic priority. win win - they get cheap shipping and I get more sales.
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I do best offer. Pretty good luck with it. Yeah, low ballers are a pain. I’ll follow up one with a very reasonable counteroffer that gets ignored… Piss me off!!! On a low dollar deal, I’ll even offer them an even split the difference deal. Works most of the time. Had one of these deals going the other day… it was a $9 Tupperware deal ( you know tight margin item) we were $2.80 apart offered a split $1.40 we each give to the deal… No response!!!!! It was going to be shipped from PA to Fairbanks, AK…… People are nuts!! Makes me want to just throw it in the burn barrel and do the happy dance!!!!😂 Keep having FUN!
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Can’t even count on my fingers and toes, how many times I’ve charged Flat Rate, guess-timated the cost, and lost half (or almost all) of my profit, because the size, weight, and location pushed up the shipping cost. Always eat the added cost, because it’s clearly my fault. Sucks, but it’s part of reselling.
Clean Jokes for Kids come from a book. The jokes actually supplied by the fourth-grade boys.....well, that's why Turner is home-schooled!
I allow offers on everything .... I have a store over 14,000 items and I really don't get really any people just sending low offers
I offer free shipping on everything except auctions and I seldom do auctions. Heavy items I mark Parcel Select but that can change. I've used FedEx and UPS for some heavy items this week and today sold a 6# box to a buyer in California (my own state) that was listed as Parcel Select at my cost of $7.70. I decided to see what Priority was and yep, $7.40! So don't always assume that is the cheaper weight, be sure to check, especially on items going within your postal zone.
Just in case you care for the future, its "Nike Skateboarding". And thats just filling you in in case you wanted to know. So the Nike Rayguns was a fictional team they created to use as an ad campaign in the early 2000s during the NBA playoffs. I dont know the value of the hat but those RayGun shoes go for anywhere from 350-550, so It may be possible somebody just got an awesome deal. That reminds me though, I need to buy a new hat myself lol
So YOU don't source at Goodwill anymore but your wife does? 🤔 Can't really say you don't source there, I guess. 😉 As always, I enjoy your content and insights.
If you want a good source for brand new CD/DVD/Video Game cases I can tell you who I get mine through. Last time I bought 1000's of replacement jewel cases I could get them with a new case and a new tray (either black or clear) for 15 cents a piece including shipping. I strongly recommend you find a wholesale vendor for replacement jewel cases. I don't replace all cases but if it is a rare or out of print or BOLO item I will change the case......For 15 cents you can easily demand a premium price.....And for me that is really true because I own an Azuradisc disc resurfacing machine. I also replace jewel cases for cheaper stuff because it makes it sell so much faster, they look so new.
I charge a flat rate shipping, with economy shipping, which gives me the option to ship with the carrier of my choice. occasionally, I'll have an item that I lose on, but for the most part it equals out in the end. On bigger items, I will go in and exclude Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, P.O. box, and APO/FPO, to prevent me from really eating a lot of the shipping cost.
Great video game lot.....looks like it was missing a few disks on the Final Fantasy VII game. Should come in a double case, such a great game!!!!
I buy most of my items for a buck at yard sales so I do put best offer on all my listings but I also do flat rate shipping on everything for over 5 years now. We've been top rated and 100% so no problems here. Another thing I do is list everything (except media mail) as economy shipping even though alot of my items go priority, but I figured a nice surprise for the customer. Anyway 6 years and no complaints yet 🤞🙏. Thanks for another great video 😁
I don't let this affect me... I list items for what the SOLD COMPS show they sell for, either free shipping or flat-rate, totaling the amount they have been known to sell for in the last 90-days.
I have always done best offer, I don't mind the low balls. I just counter or decline. The only time I don't do Best offer is when I am listing something under $20. Thanks for all the knowledge!
Best offer works great. The offers are between $5 - $8 dollars depending on the price of the item for sale. Most of the time buyers will just “Buy it now” just don't get upset when someone sends you a low ball offer, that’s just part of the dance. If you get easily insulted, just respectfully decline the offer. Good luck.
I use best offers, send offers, and charge shipping on every item. My items seem to sell better with shipping than with free shipping. Even my FBM vs FBA...seems that even amazon items sell with shipping extra.
We do Best Offer on all items. We don't set a limit because we want to know if anyone is interested enough in the item that they will send an offer. We respond to all offers, even the insulting low offers.
I have best offer on everything, but if I get a low offer, especially if I have just recently listed it, I’ll counter offer. If it’s been sitting for a long time, I’ll accept the lower offers. I offer calculated shipping on everything. I weigh everything and try to keep it under a pound so that I can send the item first class. If I should make money on shipping, more than $5, I’ll refund a little shipping.
Actually, very few items do I offer make an offer. I found in the past that usually the offers are just ridiculous. I know we can say what the minimum’s we will, accept for consideration.
No, I don’t have business. I never found that that was any better than just letting the item run its course.
I've heard several youtube resellers talk about the customer being over charged for calculated shipping. This should not be the case. Set up your profile to charge the discounted rate, add a handling charge if you want, and then they always get changed the right amount. Also having policies that use UPS as the default shipping method for large items is important. Free shipping reinforces the misconception that shipping is free, so I won't do that. Flat rate means I have to reduce my potential sales area (i.e. territories, Alaska, Hawaii) or else risk losing money or having to way over charge on a flat rate. Flat rate provides no benefit. Note: Some say you won't see a shipping charge if you aren't signed on and it is calculated shipping, also not true. I opened an incog. browser session and I could see shipping charges for all of my items, even though I am not signed on. I know that I am late responding to this video, but had to chime in.
I’ve been doing a ton of parcel select lately. I usually do calculated shipping because I’m in NY and anytime I do free shipping, it’s a buyer on the west coast buying the item. (Because it’s the cheapest item for them)
Set up business policies. Then your customers can pick between UPS, FEDEX or USPS prices.
Best offer on most some type items I do not due to ridiculously low offers like gold jewelry. Always plus shipping- calculated, shipping cost changes and may very for certain areas.
Yes, better without the hat! Now to just stop the walking back and forth while giving the commentary... 🙃
Love your content. My question is what are the dimensions of your shed? Thinking about starting my own business reselling. Thanks in advance!
I do best offer on everything. I have a small/medium sized store, so accepting or denying offers doesn’t take up too much of my time. I set a minimum price. Depends on how comfortable I’m selling it for.
I think you are over thinking shipping charges. I always charge for shipping and do flat rate shipping. It's odd but I put in the dimensions and weight. I then go to calculate shipping and calculate the charges to almost the furthest distance from me in the U.S. I am in SoCal so I normally use Washington DC. That rate that I come up with has never failed me for the shipping rate plus or minus a very slight calculation error for close to me or far away.
Free shipping on ALL items, no best offers, and competitive pricing. Free shipping is more attractive to people in this day and age with Amazon prime being so prominent. I accept that an item might be going across the country, and I pick and choose my items accordingly. Since I only offer free shipping, and really research prices, best offer is off the table. I believe my prices are good, all things considered, and I seem to do pretty well
Concerning free shipping ... if we are selling an item that is possibly breakable and might need to file for the Priority insurance if it were to get damaged in shipping, we will raise the buy-it-now price (to include shipping cost) and offer free shipping. That way, if we have to file for insurance we will be reimbursed the entire cost. Insurance won't pay the shipping cost if you charge for it. That way, neither we nor the buyer are out money.
Rowdy Roddy Piper? You would lean to The Dark Side. It's obvious in all your Picker videos.
Love your videos. I have been reselling little things here and there on ebay since the 1990s.
My wife and I retired last year and I have started selling steadily for the past few months and have now opened an ebay store.
You and Harry Tornado are my favorite channels.
I do Best Offer on 99% of my items with a minimum acceptable dollar amount. They it that amount and it is automatically accepted. I never set a minimum offer amount. I'll deal with the lowball offers. My experience has been this seems to wake up the listing and I've often sold it to someone else at a higher price after a lowball back and forth.
I use Best Offer on all listings except auctions--yes, I use auctions. When I sell rare vintage fly rods, I use auctions. 😊 I am a small size seller, so answering the offers is not a hassle. Love your channel!
I live in Texas which definitely helps with shipping. I can do flat rate more often since I know what it'll cost essentially anywhere. If I wasn't centralized it would be much harder to do flat rate.
I do calculated shipping primarily because I live in California. If I did flat rate shipping, I would be killed as most of my sales go to NY, NC, FL and TX. I do get a lot of complaints on my shipping cost. I just explain that this is calculated shipping and I try to work with them to provide a discount back.
Same here. We are in FL and before calculated shipping we had tons of sales to CA.
In seller hub shipping preferences you can set it so that the buyer automatically gets the eBay discounted shipping rates.
Beat offer and free shipping are supposed to boost your algorithms. I charge shipping I vintage vinyl records. Media mail rate is not a deal killer for vinyl collectors who want a specific record.
My question is if you’re reducing the weight reducing the box size to show cheaper shipping to the potential buyer. What happens when that actually ships and the shipping service says it was not enough postage .
Then they go, and they take the funds or in very few cases for overpayment they return the funds.
I’m just confused how I could put in a lower weight and package size that it actually is not get hit with some kind of fee once it ships and has been delivered?
Love watching all you guys probably saw you on tic tac first. Good job dude love your style and your wife is right about the hat but be you brother whatever makes you comfortable!
I'm gonna hasta vote no hat too...🤷♀
I do best offer on almost all of my listings. (I have some items at 40% for 4th July salt). I set the minimum offer at the lowest I would consider, to weed out the low ball offers. Some I do have auto accept.
I do the best offer and flat rate shipping. a min of 8 to 10 dollars on the best offer. I once got an offer of 5 dollars while I was buying groceries that just sent my blood pressure through the roof. about 25 to 30 percent of my sales are the best offer. I have found it does increase my sales. I do a flat rate on shipping because I am selling clothing.
I normally do free shipping on everything. I do have a question on taxes. Do you take the % off the sold price or profit just curious
Well the novelty of an enema moving your store is kinda funny, but for nurses the actual results are so graphic 😅/ hard to get past those memories. Elizabeth
I do best offer on all items
I do free and flat rate shipping in my own country ( Australia
Calculated shipping worldwide wide
I do only flat rate shipping and no best offers. I do send offers to watchers. My big stuff goes UPS to the lower 48 only.
We do best offer on everything, we do set the minimum offer. We ship the best way we can and try to save the sellers the best we can. But, we get a lot of low ball offers daily. Its a group decision between the daughters & myself if we take it. Haha
Its a good business most days.
My only issue with calculated shipping is that dimensions don’t change on multi-quantity purchases. Let’s say that I have a multi-quantity listing where one item weighs two pounds and measures 8”x10”x12”. If I sell five to one buyer, eBay will charge them shipping based on ten pounds but with the same dimensions as one item. Because the package would be oversized, I then either have to pay the surcharge or split the shipment into multiple boxes. Either way I usually end up paying more in shipping than I collect from the buyer, but eBay for Business has always reimbursed the difference when asked.