Postage Costs....

[mrs maggot]

i do inc fees on the website, as i know from my own experience i have dumped a cart when ive seen how much someone wants to charge me for postage, no idea with ebay though as dont deal on there

[Kaz]

MVLs are multi variation listings.

So, you can have one tshirt in various sizes and colours on the one listing for the one insertion fee, which up until now, have only been available to those with shops.


John, they are, but it's still not enough to compensate the increase in FVFs

[Kaz]

I've just worked it out John.

Say you list a tshirt in your shop for £9.99

Old fees New Fees
Insertion Fee 20p 10p
FVF 99p £1.18
Total
£1.19 £1.28

So, for every item you sell, you'll be 9p worse off, which doesn't sound like much, but if you're selling a lot each month, it all adds up

[smitch6]

i just posted a mouse mat out using a large 1st class stamp
and the post office charged the person the other end another 17p so with their fee cost them an extra £1.17
not good really as a large stamp should of covered the cost surely??????

they said it was too heavy for the stamp :~

[John G]

Thanks for that Kaz - this along with the increase in postage fees takes up a chunk of profit that we'll have to allow for!

[bms]

i just posted a mouse mat out using a large 1st class stamp
and the post office charged the person the other end another 17p so with their fee cost them an extra £1.17
not good really as a large stamp should of covered the cost surely??????

they said it was too heavy for the stamp :~

Always worth having an electronic set of scales and one of those postage guides that you can get from the Post Office to make sure it is a 'Letter', 'Large Letter' or 'Packet'. They can be very precise on what is and what is not a 'Large Letter' as it MUST fit within the guides - even a fraction over and it will be a 'Packet'.

[chongsta]

John

Ebay.com are soon to introduce FVF on total sale price including P&P, you can bet your bottom dollar ebay UK won't be slow on that uptake

Indeed, it'll come soon enough although its the buggers that sell something for 1p and then charge £50.00 delivery! This is probably why. Thats not fair at all, why should ebay take a cut of postage, im sure the business forum on ebay will be alight with sellers threatening to leave, but they all stay!

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I charge £3.50 for postage on mugs on ebay. Price is now £2.50 (after the recent price increase, was £2.24) and i charge £1.00 for the box. Ive had no complaints but my Postage DSR is at 4.7 lol

I figure that if they want it, then theyll pay for it. Ive seen many sellers do free postage and charge £7.99 a mug - all in! mental i say.

£7.99
- post = £2.50
- box = £.40p
- mug = £.90p
- ebay fee = £.50p
- paypal = £.50p

total £4.80

Profit £3.19 nice!

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@john "I had an email the other day about power sellers"

They're doing away with power seller discounts alltogether mate. Its only the TRS that get discounts now. TRS is virtually unatainable for many sellers, so ebay win again. But we still use them lol ....better the devil and all that.

Ebay = Marmite

Dave.

[JSR]

i just posted a mouse mat out using a large 1st class stamp
and the post office charged the person the other end another 17p so with their fee cost them an extra £1.17
not good really as a large stamp should of covered the cost surely??????

they said it was too heavy for the stamp :~

As Martin says, did you weigh it? I send mousemats in a board-backed envelope that fit within the "large letter guide", and the guide weight I use is 160g. A single stamp will only get you to 100g.

We send all Royal Mail items recorded so as we take everything to the post office and they weigh and check size (if it's not obviously a packet) at the time of paying. This isn't necessary for courier shipments, of course, but it eliminates the chance of insufficient postage for Royal Mail items.

There was one time that they undercharged an item (a plate, I think) based on the guide weight I'd worked out. As soon as the receipt came back to me, I emailed to customer to let me know if they were charged extra and, if so, I would refund it. I didn't hear back, so it must have gone through okay.

[John G]

Nice sums but you haven't accounted for listing fees, shop fees, paper, print, vat on the mug, depreciation on equipment etc - the list goes on.

£3.19 profit on a mug selling at £7.99 isn't achievable in my eyes - wish it was.