Shipping Cost

[better*prices]

Can anyone tell me how a seller can sell a 7.99 [wholesale cost] item on ebay for 1.99 with free shipping.

Oh and how can a china seller sell a .41 cent ring or something and ship it free to the USA?

[tdumonde2014]

Either your getting "whosed" by your wholesaler or the products are different. Chinese sellers have subsidized shipping.

[nawlinsron2]

Are you assuming the $1.99 items are genuine?

[better*prices]

No I get my products at a good wholesale prices. I was just using that as a sample. Ok my lostest shipping cost on a item is 2.61 first class.

[better*prices]

No not from china lol. But how can anyone sell any kinda item for .99 and free shipping is my point. Like I said the lowest first class shipping is 2.61. I'm not trying to make anyone mad here.I truly just want in the game here.

[dtexley3]

Asian shippers pay $0.87 or less for packages under 1lb, per the state deparments announcement last month.  4 years of negociation and the Asian sellers did get a fee hike.... to $0.87 cents.

[fashunu4eeuh]

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@better*prices wrote:

No not from china lol. But how can anyone sell any kinda item for .99 and free shipping is my point. Like I said the lowest first class shipping is 2.61. I'm not trying to make anyone mad here.I truly just want in the game here.

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One reason a seller might take a loss on an item is to bring traffic and shoppers to their listings in hope they will check out full-priced merchandise once there. (That’s called a loss leader.) Another reason a seller might take a loss is to build up their feedback score, by selling many inexpensive items in a relatively quick time.

[ed8108]

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@dtexley3 wrote:

Asian shippers pay $0.87 or less for packages under 1lb, per the state deparments announcement last month.  4 years of negociation and the Asian sellers did get a fee hike.... to $0.87 cents.

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A simply terrible situation.