You may want to take a look at your cost model and your shipping methods. You have a $20 item listed with free shipping and are using USPS priority mail. You are located in Florida and to ship that item to me, if it weighs under a pound, using priority mail would cost $8.30 at the eBay discounted rate and $10.07 if it went to a west coast buyer. Plugging those numbers into the following cost model you can see your estimated payout. Out of that you have to take our expenses such as cost of goods sold, packing materials, supplies and Federal and State Income tax. Are you sure you are not loosing money? Run the same numbers on the $7 item you have listed with free shipping.
You may be better off donating the items to the Salvation Army or Goodwill and taking the tax write-off.
To get buyers for your clothing you should put the size in the title. If buyers are expected to go into the listing and look for the size they will just scroll on past it. Buyers are generally lazy and don't like to read descriptions. IMO.
I am a seller who wants to pay for shipping . I cant seem to find seller pays shipping . Where did it go ?
@boutiquebabe*
If you really want to offer free shipping, you may want to get as close to "free" as you can. Most buyers are savvy enough to see shipping costs buried in the price of listing.
Having said that, in my experience with offering free shipping (books, records, CDs), I have found that many buyers are never quite satisfied with the listing price, even when shipping is in fact totally free.
Maybe it's different with clothing.
I'm thinking about offering a flat $1.25 shipping fee instead of "free" shipping and see if that makes a difference.
Consumer psychology is riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. (Sorry Winston.)
dbfolks166mt
·1 year agoYou may want to take a look at your cost model and your shipping methods. You have a $20 item listed with free shipping and are using USPS priority mail. You are located in Florida and to ship that item to me, if it weighs under a pound, using priority mail would cost $8.30 at the eBay discounted rate and $10.07 if it went to a west coast buyer. Plugging those numbers into the following cost model you can see your estimated payout. Out of that you have to take our expenses such as cost of goods sold, packing materials, supplies and Federal and State Income tax. Are you sure you are not loosing money? Run the same numbers on the $7 item you have listed with free shipping.
You may be better off donating the items to the Salvation Army or Goodwill and taking the tax write-off.
inhawaii
·1 year agoDo you mean "pay" for shipping -or- "charge" for shipping?
ALL sellers pay for shipping.
It's up to the seller if they want to charge and how much they want to charge the customer.
To get buyers for your clothing you should put the size in the title. If buyers are expected to go into the listing and look for the size they will just scroll on past it. Buyers are generally lazy and don't like to read descriptions. IMO.
If what I said offends, sorry... not sorry.
reallynicestamps
·1 year agoAnd the measurements in the description, because of vanity sizing.
soh.maryl
·1 year agoYes, it's called free shipping and you'll want to make sure you have priced your items high enough to cover shipping costs.
PS: Are you aware that you currently have listed two free shipping items and four pickup only items, all of which are clothing?
fbusoni
·1 year ago@boutiquebabe*
If you really want to offer free shipping, you may want to get as close to "free" as you can. Most buyers are savvy enough to see shipping costs buried in the price of listing.
Having said that, in my experience with offering free shipping (books, records, CDs), I have found that many buyers are never quite satisfied with the listing price, even when shipping is in fact totally free.
Maybe it's different with clothing.
I'm thinking about offering a flat $1.25 shipping fee instead of "free" shipping and see if that makes a difference.
Consumer psychology is riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. (Sorry Winston.)
It's called free shipping.