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My media mail item was changed to priority by eBay....

Last night I sold two 45 records which I had listed as shipping with media mail for $3.75. When I went to print out the label on eBay, the label had changed to priority mail for $8.17. I couldn't change it back to media mail as it was grayed out. I kept backing out and going back in to the same results. 

I then clicked on first class and it changed to FedEx, also for $8.17. It seemed I was stuck with losing money on my sale as I was being given no other options. Buyer only paid $3.75 and there were no messages from the buyer asking me to change to priority. 

Just as I was about to give up and cancel the order completely, as I wasn't about to lose money on this sale, I tried one last time and it finally changed to first class shipping. Still wasn't the shipping I had listed it as but the price was only a slight difference higher. So I did get my label printed and item shipping but wondering what went wrong to cause this. 

 

Has eBay altered all media mail shippings?

I missed any notifications on that....

 

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Re: My media mail item was changed to priority by eBay....

Same thing happened to me except with Playbills. I have been selling them for years with media mail and then all of a sudden this last week EBay changed it to priority. I ended up just going to the post office because EBay never gave a discount on Media Mail, but why weren’t we told?

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Re: My media mail item was changed to priority by eBay....

In an effort to reduce the abuse of Media Mail, eBay has been gradually phasing-in limitations on which listing categories have access to Media Mail.  Playbills are not eligible for MM because they contain advertising.  

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Re: My media mail item was changed to priority by eBay....

Hi everyone,

 

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread HERE if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

 

Thank you for understanding.

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