You can't add $50 of insurance on top of another total. You have to pay for the total amount in one fell swoop. If you buy $50 worth of insurance (or take advantage of Priority Mail's free $50), that's what you would get - insurance for a package valued at $50. Insuring a package for $100 would cost you $2.80.
Here are the prices:
https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c191
No. You get $50 free Priority Mail Insurance coverage (or $100 if a TRS).
If you need more, than that, it isn't additive, you have to pay for the entire coverage amount
For example, if you want $100 coverage you pay $2.80 (not the 60¢ difference fro $50 coverage)
spot on once again WTG
did you get all As in high school?
me just a B & C type person in HS and college - only took automotive engineering courses but managed a minor in Bus. Ad. in my electives courses 4.5 years - social life in both very Active - no frats, no time, no money for. Social life was interrupted as Uncle Sam firmly asked me to give them 2 years of my life with a semi promise of 3 hots & a cot plus a free round trip transportation to S.E. Asia by air most of the way.
went thru all your current listings. Only found one item offered over a$100, there was one close at $96. And a ten spot would cover 98& of your other offering. So I see that $100 is relatively meaningless & $50 is more than sufficient - eBay does offer an insurer caller ShipCover (cheaper than USPS) and to get $100 of insurance cost a buck, 65.
There is something to be said about communicating from one website to another. There maybe times when an issue arises & it becomes finger pointing time. No on line anything is not without an issue at various times - ask the top dog at Microsoft. That is why they do maintenance (fixes) lat at night. It works fine for US but the folks in Japan, China, India, Australia etc. have a problem.
Woudl not want to bring a third party in to help do some finger pointing.
Here is what you get after two parties are involved.
went thru all your current listings. Only found one item offered over a$100, there was one close at $96. And a ten spot would cover 98& of your other offering. So I see that $100 is relatively meaningless & $50 is more than sufficient
That makes sense as I've moved most of inventory off eBay several years ago as I can make more money that way. I guess you missed the $2,200 Barbie or the semi-trailer that came to pickup several thousand dollars of auto parts.
Interesting pseudo logic.
I don't currently have any items for over $100 thus its o.k. for eBay to give some sellers only $50 insurance and other sellers $100 insurance. The sellers with $50 insurance must decide to self-insure, buy more USPS insurance or buy ShipCover insurance (which their home page describes as being powered by eBay). Yet the 3rd party company pirateship, which is a authorized label printing service for eBay, offers $100 of insurance and also offers non-USPS insurance (which you failed to mention for some reason).
Prior to the recent USPS merger of commerical rates the base and plus were at different pricing levels. For years eBay was forcing some sellers to use the higher base prices while giving other sellers the plus rate. Yet anyone, regardless of thier ebay account status could go to a eBay provider such as pirateship and get plus pricing. However according to your logic this and the other things eBay did to increase shipping prices is a really moot point because I currently do not have any items priced above $100. Yes, that makes sense.
There also reasons why 3rd party insurance is cheaper than USPS:
(1) The small print as to what is does not cover.
(2) The thousands of consumer complaints about the service that anyone can find via Google.
Another major reason not to use 3rd party insurance is that it deprives USPS of badly needed income. Insurance was one of the areas where USPS traditionally makes money yet now eBay also wants to deprive USPS of that income in addition to the abuses above. I'd rather not be party to that.
There is something to be said about communicating from one website to another. There maybe times when an issue arises & it becomes finger pointing time.
You mean like every time someone prints PayPal labels for their eBay orders. Plenty of threads here on eBay label glitches.
No on line anything is not without an issue at various times - ask the top dog at Microsoft. That is why they do maintenance (fixes) lat at night. It works fine for US but the folks in Japan, China, India, Australia etc. have a problem.
Websites can have technical problems. And CSS styles HTML. Neither have anything to do with this thread at all. Pure misdirection.
Woudl not want to bring a third party in to help do some finger pointing.
Here is what you get after two parties are involved.
How are using eBay then since eBay is using various other companies to complete tasks on its site. Each of these sites is also in many cases using 3rd party companies. There are the PayPal labels. PayPal's international money transfers were handled for years by the Dutch banking giant ING Direct and not PayPal (not really read anything about that lately to kow if they changed that). eBay's API allows communication with various 3rd party applications and external sites which mus be approved by eBay. eBay's own API was developed by a 3rd party. The list goes on and on if you really want to take a few seconds to search Google.
What does Japan, China, and India have to do with U.S. sellers buying USPS labels and insurance to send packages? Nothing!
