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Shipping Fee - MISLEADING SELLERS
Attention sellers. Have you noticed that when you select the shipping service and rate for your listing that often the cheaper options are NOT actually available when your listing ends. This has happened several times and I have raised it to EBAY and they acknowledge it happens and say it's because those services are not offered by EBay but they are listed on their platform. In the end the shipping costs the seller more, especially if free shipping is offered. The overall economics of the transaction cause the seller to lose money because eBay misleads their sellers. Funny how that works and they have no issues with it, yet as a seller if we mislead a buyer there are negative consequences.
eBay is making selling on their platform a horrible and fiscally poor option.
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Mentor8 months ago@howboredru. I took a quick look at your sold listings and it appears that you are selecting First Class large envelope for at least some items. This means that you are going to use postage stamps and there will not be any tracking.
Keep in mind that when sellers offer "free shipping " that they add the shipping cost to the item price.
You may wish to eBay Standard Envelope for select items that sell for $20 or less. You can buy this shipping label from ebay as it has tracking.
Here's some information about the eBay Standard Envelope you may find helpful.
eBay Standard Envelope is a Metered Mail shipping method and the tracking can only be read by the sorting equipment. You can't look it up on the USPS site like regular tracking you have to use this tracking tool> https://www.trackmyshipment.co/
If a buyer files a not received refund request then you can file an insurance claim to get your money back. See this link>
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/shipping-items/setting-shipping-options/ebay-standard-envelope?id=5308&st=3&pos=1&query=eBay%20standard%20envelope&intent=eBay%20standard%20&lucenceai=lucenceai&docId=HELP1689#section6
For future shipments I recommend dropping your envelopes in the metered mail box at your post office.
You can also review this post by a fellow Mentor that has screenshots of proper packing as the envelope must remain flexible enough to easily bend around standard coffee mug to be read by the sorting equipment. The example is for coins but the same rule applies for post cards and trading cards. A high volume card seller said that he uses a few sheets of standard printer paper around the card to protect it.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/Standard-envelope-shipping/m-p/34239169#M5984