eBay postage costs???

Cliecost

Hi,

What are eBay doing with their postage costs?!

They're awful. You sell something and list it as Royal mail 1st class but they only let you charge £3 even when RM's website says it will cost you £4.10. Madness!

If you select that you are going to send something like a game CD as Special Delivery it will also only let you charge £3! That costs me £6.95!

I understand that loads of people too the pi55 with delivery charges but surely they can just reflect the prices RM actually charge.

wealdroam

Did you consider asking this question on the ebay board?

MarkBargain

Plus Ebay now take 10.0% of your postage charge as a fee then Paypal take another 3.4%, so you only get £2.60 of that £3.00.

Cliecost

I'm not talking about the delivery charges in hope they'll change their mind, they have a monopoly, where else are you going to go?! lol

skadupuk

Incorporate the true postage cost (including any fees etc.) into your starting/asking price and list it as free postage?

cattie

MarkBargain wrote: »

Plus Ebay now take 10.0% of your postage charge as a fee then Paypal take another 3.4%, so you only get £2.60 of that £3.00.

You actually end up with less than this as both ebay & paypal fees have vat @15% added to them. A lot of people tend to overlook this.

soolin

cattie wrote: »

You actually end up with less than this as both ebay & paypal fees have vat @15% added to them. A lot of people tend to overlook this.

That's included in the percentage charged.

hollydays

2nd class is cheaper

paddedjohn

When listing items via my ipad I just click on the price to change it, its straightforward enough.

Sharon87

List more than one postage option so £3 for 2nd class and £7.50 for example for special delivery. This should get around it

soolin

paddedjohn wrote: »

When listing items via my ipad I just click on the price to change it, its straightforward enough.

Some categories are capped, postage cannot be increased.

Sharon87 wrote: »

List more than one postage option so £3 for 2nd class and £7.50 for example for special delivery. This should get around it

You can add whatever postage options you want once you have taken the first one with the cap- obviously though buyers will pay the cheapest in around 99.9999% of purchases. Therefore it does not get round the cap.