Posting cost on business account

RFW

ballisticbrian wrote: »

I feel certain that the most basic reason for wanting to make a loss is trying to beef up the package volume to get the postage discount. i.e. We'll sell 100,000 items a year with no profit so that the postage on the remaining stock is reduced to 50p or whatever.

I wouldn't mind finding out what these rates and discounted volumes are so I could put some figures into the equation.

Interesting, I'd not really thought of that. I guess if the bigger items are more expensive and high volume. It still leaves cost and packing of the cheaper ones, so that would take a lot of working out to be accurate and successful.
I must have an old fashioned ideal of wanting to sell all items that I can earn money on. I'm not beyond a loss leader or incentive buys but not continuously.

soolin

RFW wrote: »

Interesting, I'd not really thought of that. I guess if the bigger items are more expensive and high volume. It still leaves cost and packing of the cheaper ones, so that would take a lot of working out to be accurate and successful.
I must have an old fashioned ideal of wanting to sell all items that I can earn money on. I'm not beyond a loss leader or incentive buys but not continuously.

I agree, for me my time is important and valuable- the less time I spend on selling the more time I have to go on holidays or out with friends- I am a lazy seller and would not dream of selling anything unless it makes me money. All my items make me enough money to bother listing, storing and wrapping them.

Mistral001

It is not just ebay where you get items at costs which defy explanation.

A few months ago I needed a part to fix an old drill I had. It was a very common part for a well own make of drill. I looked ebay and the cheapest I could find it there was about £3 or £4 if I remember correctly, but when I did a search on google for the part I noticed that there were parts specialists offering to sell the part. I picked one of these specialists and bought it from them for £0.92 including postage. It arrive about two weeks later in a package with a green customs sticker with Chinese writing on it.

It appears that I bought the item for the said 92p from an American firm who then got it delivered from China!