@veronicabooksandart wrote:
No. Switching carriers (or carrier service) is a great way to get positive feedback.
For small items weighing over a pound, the best retail prices overall with be from the only economy shipping service offered, viz., FX Smartpost; albeit, FXSP admits the worst delivery time. When the item is paid for, final value fees on shipping lock to the FXSP retail rate. Then you shop for the best discounted service. Your choices will be FX Ground or Home Delivery, UPS Ground, or even in some cases USPS Priority Mail. All of these service are standard shipping or better. In most cases, the discounted shipping charge to the seller will come in less than FXSP. So, by changing the service and/or carrier, you've upgraded the "buyer requested" service and they receive the item in a timely manner when they expected it to take all but forever when they purchased the item.
The only rub is listing FXSP with its delivery time in attendance. Or how can the buyer complain when you've only upgraded their shipping service?
Any other way to approach this throws money at eBay final value fees and much more at the carrier.
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Math is hard.
No, that's the way to earn a big fat neg. I know when my mail carrier comes, but FedEx and UPS can show up anytime between 6am and 9pm.
That's not an upgrade, that's a hassle.
