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@bbsecondtimearound wrote:
I totally agree with you, The shipping is something that E-bay needs to fix, Is hard to compete with the massive e commerce industry when other companies offer free shipping and cheaper shipping coming from china such as Wish, Amazon Prime etc. My sales had dropped so bad that basically I'm making only the monthly fee payments to ebay. I have no choice sometimes to sell my staff at the local market places on line like Let go, Facebook Marketplace etc. because I don't need to pay fees on top of the little money I'm making. I'm ready to leave ebay and is sad to see this but the big fishes are eating the small ones. Ebay is getting old and bringing all the Chinese sellers from china doesnt' help us. I used to sell handmade pet jewelry a very reasonable price. found out the Chinese market sells them similar but no the same from $1.99 free shipping. What? My shipping cost is $3.75 regardless. crazy.
Absolutely agree that eBay needs to get more agressive with negotiating better prices with the carriers that ship for US Sellers ... I don't care what the carriers say about not making money, they are making $$ hand over fist supporting an online sales industry that simply keeps growing. At the local Post Office I see BOTH UPS and FedEx trucks there on a regular basis, they are sharing routes to optimize package movement and minimize cost.
@joesoucie22012 wrote:Donald Trump's is getting the United States out of the UPU (universal postal union) It will take about a year but no more Chinese Epacket. They won't be able to ship something for 12 cents or whatever anymore thus saving the u s postal service millions a year and saving us companies that they are destroying by eliminating fakes and counterfeits and I believe that the Chinese make up more then 50 percent of eBay sales and several years ago eBay stated that China is eBay's future and eBay has invested millions in China so eBay will be in trouble along with the river and many others if we back out of the UPU. Bla
If that is indeed true then perhaps Home Office will really embrace all of us antique, collectible, vintage, unique sellers again to try and offset their bottom feeding item sales from over there ... hope springs eternal.
@clothesusa Members since 2007 and Sellers since 2015, we noticed when we started to Sell that USPS rates were a decent amount lower then UPS and FedEx Ground but when USPS had their first price increase after we started they moved their pricing (mainly Parcel Select and Priority) to right up under UPS and FedEx Ground. I have been shipping things since the mid 80s but on eBay only since 2015 so I was somewhat familiar with who had good rates and who didn't. I think with the advent of online sales and some savvy accounts manager at USPS they realized there was some "room" under their competitor's pricing that they could get by raising prices but not exceeding their competition. During the late 90s USPS made an agressive move to invest over 39 million dollars in there Bulk Mail Centers (mainly for packages) to help automate the systems, reduce labor but most importantly, increase throughput and improve sorting accuracy (thus reducing human labor costs to rehandle packages).
To your point, the coast to coast shipping is horendous and over that magic 4 lbs level I have seen rates double going from Parcel Select to Priority ... I KNOW people would be happy to wait say one more day for something if it meant getting it shipped cheaper. I offer BOTH Parcel Select and Priority on most things and except for the same or adjacent zones Buyers select the low cost shipping method every time ... THAT tells me they are willing to wait AND the decision is price driven. This debunks the whole Gauranteed Delivery thing eBay started pushing last year ... the proof? Mine is from the decisions I see Buyers making .... every .... single .... week.
