01-20-2023 10:54 AM
How do you set shipping on an auction when the final sale may or may not be over $20 on coins
01-20-2023 11:23 AM
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.
01-20-2023 11:30 AM
If I offer standard envelope shipping will the rate divert to 1st class package if the item sells for over $20
01-20-2023 11:39 AM
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.
01-20-2023 11:41 AM
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.
01-20-2023 12:02 PM
Welcome to the inscrutable world of eBay standard envelope. It's a conundrum wrapped in a riddle.
01-20-2023 12:26 PM
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.
01-20-2023 12:27 PM
For YOU it will. The buyer will still pay 57 cents.
01-20-2023 12:53 PM
@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
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).