Standard envelopes for coins with auctions

[ebeths_eclectic_collectibles]

How do you set shipping on an auction when the final sale may or may not be over $20 on coins

[bamorris]

You can't vary shipping charges based on the final bid price of an auction.

What is it you are trying to accomplish? "Ships free if bid is over $20"?  There's no mechanism for that, and bidders always calculate the shipping costs into their bid so the final value is within the market price of an item.

[ebeths_eclectic_collectibles]

If I offer standard envelope shipping will the rate divert to 1st class package if the item sells for over $20

[dbfolks166mt]

     You have been selling for quite some time how did you do it in the past? I don't sell many coins but I would never use a standard envelope for shipping one anyway. The tracking may or may not work depending on which post office(s) it goes through. Even when I sold coins it was in a lot simply because you can easily pickup individual coins at a wide variety of B&M stores for far less than what you can purchase them on eBay for. 

     Wheat pennies and most foreign coins I sold by the pound, actually just a little under so I could use first class. There are about 145 copper pennies in a pound and a lot of them are worth more for their copper scrap or smelt value than they are for their collectable value. 

[pjcdn2005]

No. The buyer will still be charged for standard envelope but you won’t be able to print a label for that service.  You might want to start the auction at a slightly higher price as a buffer if you think that you may have to pay postage for a first class package.   Or plan on using a stamp with no tracking.

[hartungcards]

Welcome to the inscrutable world of eBay standard envelope.  It's a conundrum wrapped in a riddle.

[oldskoolmadskilz]

I've been burned by this.  Short answer, don't.  If you think it will go over $20, just make the base shipping first class package.

[oldskoolmadskilz]

For YOU it will.  The buyer will still pay 57 cents.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@ebeths_eclectic_collectibles wrote:

If I offer standard envelope shipping will the rate divert to 1st class package if the item sells for over $20

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No, it's not possible to have the auction convert to First Class package if the bidding goes higher than $20.  

For winning bids over $20, you will have to pay for the First Class package postage extra cost out of the extra profit that you made with the higher selling price. So it's really a net cost out of your pocket only for items that sell for $20.01 up to about $23 (depending on buyer location and on what you charged them for the Standard envelope).