Fair enough Nobody's. Like you said though on priority. 3% yippee.
Did you see my example I wrote on another post here last night? I will repeat, since I love to see myself running my mouth haha.
I shipped a 1lb 2 oz item priority from ebay to my customer 3 states away a few days ago. Obviously priority. Costs a little over $9. 30 btw would be a whopping 27 cents less. A few days before that I sent 67 lbs to the river at about the same distance traveled by miles but different state borders crossed.... little over $11.
Something sound a little off to you? Im selling a large coloring book on the river fba. I do nothing. Sells for a little over $5, cost me $1 landed. Profit at $5 even = $1.41. So all fees and shipping = $2.59.
Ebay all zones media mail which is cheapest way to ship is around $2.75 postage. But since im shipping it I got another $.32 in envelope, ink, label, gas to post office etc. Then 12% ebay fee and 3% paypal fee with a $.30 per transaction paypal fee. Lets do the mathage lol. $5 x 15% = $.75 + $.30 = $1.05 in fees + $2.75 in postage + $.32 in materials + (lets just forget the fact im doing all the labor and customer service because im a cheap date anyway right. That = $4.12 in expenses per sale. Now we also have to take into consideration part of my cost in the book was shipping to the river which was $13.50 for 216 items that weighed 42 lbs in 2 boxes. If I were to ship those books to me without the rivers rate it would have been minimum $25, maybe 12 cents or so per. So now cost is $1.12.
Buyer pays $5.00 (not that you can get the same price here lol) I pay $4.12 in fees , postage, materials, product cost was $1.12 = - $ .24 per unit............and I get the previous mentioned added calorie busting benefit of doing all the packaging , labor, driving to P.O and taking 100% of the risk and dealing with all the customers.
I can not believe people who get hired to run a business and get paid 6 to 7 figured a year can not figure out why they are losing market share. This is a very hot item. It can't be sold here for a profit. How many more are like that? How many views, purchases, buyers, and sellers go looking elsewhere for the very simply explained example above?
