eBay and PayPal charge the same online rates. If you're being charged more at PayPal there must be something different about your package factors. Check ZIP Codes, package weight and dimensions.
Alternatively you can do what I did when eBay stumbled with the new shipping page - I signed up, for free, at PirateShip and now ship that way. Use the old PP debit card to pay for shipping and backed up with my regular CC. In some cases the cost is less than eBay labels because they use USPS Priority Mail Cubic® pricing.
Don't need an eBay account but you can import your eBay orders.
Cubic pricing for smaller sized Priority Mail packages (this can be cheaper that even eBay's Top Rated Seller rates for certain packages)
You should be using this for all non eBay packages and not PayPal.
No fees unlike some 3rd party shipping label companies.
Credit Card:
You should never use your PayPal balance to pay for shipping labels. It should be immediately deposited into your bak account to earn interest.
You should always use a credit card with a rewards program. That way you get a 1, 1.5, or 2% discount on your shipping labels in points that can be traded for a account credit.
Some credit cards offer a initial signup bonus such as a $200 account credit for spending $500 in 90 days. Have your customers get you that $200 bonus with the shipping labels they buy from you. Temporary add your other business and personal expenses to the card to get the bonus if you don't sell that much. Schedule such signups with plans to buy new equipment such as a camera, computer, a pallet full of shipping tape, etc. I've made an extra $2,000+ doing that over time.
PayPal:
Well it looks like PayPal is up to its old tricks again. For the longest time if you had any PayPal balance you were unable to use your credit card to pay for a shipping label. Thus you needed to immediately withdraw your balance in order to use your card. They changed this a little while ago so you could could actually use the card even if you had a balance. The last label I purchased they deducted it from the balance even though a credit card was selected. Never trust PayPal.
At least they now auto insert your current balance into the withdrawal form so you need not have to type it. Been requesting that for over a decade. I guess the "obvious" escapes the people running PayPal.
I am unsure why anyone thinks that ebay shipping and paypal shipping charge the same
its just not true for me... ebays save me $2 every time I ship to Europe
Because you are a Top Rated Seller. TRS get a 3% discount on domestic Priority Mail and pay lower rates for a few international services. My reply to the OP was based on the information provided: Since he was selling his first item in a long time, he clearly wasn't a Top Rated Seller.
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