@baydistributionllc wrote:
@onefootflipper wrote:
You need to switch to calculated shipping. Flat shipping or free shipping means that your items are most desirable to those in the furthest away zones from you.
Ebay spends most of its ad money on google shopping, exactly where it needs to. Reminding people that ebay exists is not needed. It has no direct competition.
Thats a good way to sell nearly nothing. The calculator doesn’t work right. It charges double the actual cost AND it displays the fastest option first. You May offer a cheaper option as well but no buyer will ever know that. Furthermore if you know how to ship right nearly everything under a cubic foot is predictable and nearly the same price to ship anywhere.
I can hold something in my hand and know the shipping cost to across the country vs next store. Its like $2-3. Calculated shipping policies that have to meticulously set up and maintained, bad math buyers buying someone elses more expensive item, all due to fear of the shipping being $3 more than estimated. Please. The shipping is predictable on just about everything and the difference in close vs far away is only a few dollars. Calculated shipping is for newbs.
Sometimes the shipping is $10 more than I estimated. Oh no! What to do!? I ship it anyway. No biggie because far more often its less.
Then theres people constantly crying combined shipping. People crying for shipping refunds. People complaining about the shipping charged because they think it to much. You know why they think its to much? Because of asinine flat rate policies that are half the actual shipping cost. They think those policies other sellers had were the actual shipping cost.
Anything other than free shipping is an enormous time suck that hinders sales.
You seem to mostly sell new products, with quantity available. The original poster is a garage sale picker. Very different things. It is unlikely that you are regularly marking the entire store down a certain percent or running percentage off sales. Building shipping into the price makes doing that sort of thing impossible and that sort of thing is a huge part of being a successful garage sale picker.
If I sold mostly new products with quantity I would also likely be doing free shipping. I can't safely end items that are 3 months old and bulk relist them 10 percent cheaper when I have to factor in the expected shipping cost with each one.
