Ebay postage

Blether

Have just started to sell on ebay. Having a massive clear out in the hope of moving. Sold my first items yesterday and posted them today. I estimated the postage at £3.00, basically I copied the amount that other similar items had. I posted today and the postage was only £2.20. Should I refund some of the postage. I am very aware that you don't want low stars. I had thought £2.40 would be fair. I'd appreciate your thoughts.

soolin

Blether wrote: »

Have just started to sell on ebay. Having a massive clear out in the hope of moving. Sold my first items yesterday and posted them today. I estimated the postage at £3.00, basically I copied the amount that other similar items had. I posted today and the postage was only £2.20. Should I refund some of the postage. I am very aware that you don't want low stars. I had thought £2.40 would be fair. I'd appreciate your thoughts.

You might be ok with £3 if it takes a bit of packing and you use nice bubble wrap or a box. I would probably still leave 5* if the packing was good.

DA63147

I am on 4.7 for the stars and my postage covers stamps, envelopes, fuel to the post office, ebay fees and paypal fees, you only need to worry about the stars if you intend to sell a lot:) So 80p over I wouldn't refund them if I were you, hth:)

plumface

DA63147 wrote: »

I am on 4.7 for the stars and my postage covers stamps, envelopes, fuel to the post office, ebay fees and paypal fees, you only need to worry about the stars if you intend to sell a lot:) So 80p over I wouldn't refund them if I were you, hth:)

You are risking it on here with that admission.:D

plumface

Blether wrote: »

Have just started to sell on ebay. Having a massive clear out in the hope of moving. Sold my first items yesterday and posted them today. I estimated the postage at £3.00, basically I copied the amount that other similar items had. I posted today and the postage was only £2.20. Should I refund some of the postage. I am very aware that you don't want low stars. I had thought £2.40 would be fair. I'd appreciate your thoughts.

If you sell on ebay,you risk everything beacause,no matter what (unless you go the freepost option) you charge for p&p a buyer can mark your stars down at a whim.As a seller you have virtually no redress. :mad:

Blether

soolin wrote: »

You might be ok with £3 if it takes a bit of packing and you use nice bubble wrap or a box. I would probably still leave 5* if the packing was good.

It was clothes and the packing was a plain plastic postage bags.

sharnad

3 is fine your not really overcharging. My seller charged an extrA 2.80 school is annoying but 80p is fine

paulwellerfan

OP You didnt sell a very thin skirt and then wrapped it in brown paper did you by any chance

soolin

DA63147 wrote: »

I am on 4.7 for the stars and my postage covers stamps, envelopes, fuel to the post office, ebay fees and paypal fees, you only need to worry about the stars if you intend to sell a lot:) So 80p over I wouldn't refund them if I were you, hth:)

Goodness, are you intending to give up eBay or are you going to try and turn your stars around and carry on selling?

4.7 is as low as you really want to go if you drop to 4.6 you start getting a bit close to looking out of line against other sellers. What is your expanded dashboard like and are you still showing as 'standard'.

Buyers won't put up with nonsense liking paying for a sellers fees or petrol anymore and I think OP is very sensible in checking whether his p and p is reasonable. A seller like the OP will go far as he/ she is starting off on the right basis

plumface

soolin wrote: »

Buyers won't put up with nonsense (WHY IS IT NONSENSE?) liking paying for a sellers fees or petrol anymore and I think OP is very sensible in checking whether his p and p is reasonable. A seller like the OP will go far as he/ she is starting off on the right basis

If it costs £xx to sell it costs £xx to sell,it is not nonsense.(unless you load the costs onto freepost).But then you are getting the same item at exactly the same price.
Item:- £2 plus £2 p&p
Item:- £4 free p&p
What is the difference and what is the problem?

chemical.galaxy

Just checked my dashboard after reading this discussion - all my items were freepost up to now but recently I have started experimenting with making the items cheaper to foreign buyers and adding on postage (at cost price nothing added for packaging etc) to uk buyers instead.
I have dropped from 5 to 4.99 - so I guess there is no pleasing some people!!