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WHY isn't eBay giving any shipping discounts through the USPS anymore??????

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@josh6951 

 

eBay does not do much in the line of "giving discounts".

eBay shipping labels are purchased at the "online label" cost. (available many places) They post that you saved X.XX by using an eBay label, but eBay did not provide that discount. Just an illusion that they perpetuate.

Some classes of mail have no "online discount"

The only "discount" that eBay does/did on labels was a small discount for TRS doing Priority labels. It's like 3%. It is what USPS once did as a "commercial plus" rate, but USPS dropped that discount back a while ago. 2-3 years ago.  Have not done a Priority for a while, so not sure, but last I knew, I was still getting that little perk.

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Why do you think eBay isn't giving shipping discounts any more? There has never been a discount for Media Mail.  And the eBay label rate for Parcel Select Ground looks like there's no discount, but that's because the retail equivalent has a different Name: Retail Ground, and it does cost more than Parcel Select Ground. (Both services used to be known as Parcel Post.)

For other services, eBay DOES provide a shipping discount, in the form (as always) of charging the published Commercial online rate rather than the retail rate that you'd pay at the PO counter.  

In fact, recently eBay announced that sellers will be paying even less than the published online rate for some Priority Mail services, but the announcement didn't specify which weights/zones, or how much less: "Sellers using eBay Labels will save even more on Priority Mail labels for select weights and zones, with new rates up to $1.02 lower than Commercial Pricing. "

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/New-lower-rates-for-USPS-Priority-Mail-labels-effective/...

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Holiday rates apply now.  So price is higher.

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@cardsforauction wrote:

Holiday rates apply now.  So price is higher.


But the discounts still apply.

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand
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