@dfhotwire2007 wrote:
No kidding but the usps is not scanning the ebay envelopes in the state I live in. that's the problem. you have not been selling very long obviously check my numbers I have been doing it since 2007. I can take 200 photos and crop and list in 2 hours. Shipping is 30 cards an hour. My cost of shipping and fees and supplies are covered by what I charge for shipping. I sell from 100-200 cards a week.
I am not new at this. This isn't my first or only account. I have been selling since the 1990s. My youtube video on standard envelope is so highly ranked that the ebay shipping supply team specifically sent me samples of their ebay branded card supplies before they were released because they wanted my opinion on them.
I can't evaluate the numbers you just gave because you don't have a consistent shipping cost on cards. Some are free, some are .79, some are .85, some are .89. I know for a fact that you directly lose money on the .79 shipping, the ship cost is ,69 and the ebay fee on the ship cost is 9 cents. That only leaves a penny to buy an envelope, a label and a top loader or whatever you use.
By the way, you can use business policies to have a consistent shipping price on cards that you can change on everything all at once.
I can however run the math on the general numbers you gave me. 13 hours to list, pull and ship 300 cards. I extrapolated it out to make the math easier to do. Allowing the insanely low 6 cents per order for supplies that means you can make 52 cents per card which comes out to $12 an hour, and that is only if 100 percent of the cards you list sell.
The baseball card shop I used to run the ebay for completely stopped selling cards under $3 online once we timed the employees and ran the numbers. Our fastest guy couldn't make his own $10 an hour salary back.
