eBay

Shipping charges versus costs

I'm still a newbie here in the eBay land, but I have noticed on a few items we actually lost money in the shipping, using eBay's system. They know where I am, they know where the customer is, who the shipper will be and can get the rate. They add on ...

Mailing Paper Items in Letter with Tracking - how do I buy label?

I've recently been buying some trading cards from eBay and noticed most sellers ship them in letter-sized envelopes with tracking. The postage was purchased through eBay, but I can't find that option when trying to ship some paper goods of my own in ...

Media mail?

when I list in the books & magazines category media mail is no longer a shipping option. Can anyone shed light on this?

Combining orders in Pirateship

Is there a way to combine multiple orders in Pirateship so that it will generate one label for the combined shipping and then upload that one tracking number to the multiple corresponding orders in ebay?Or would I have to just copy and paste to uploa...

Ebayers unite! For simple change!

I posted this in another thread but everyone should suggest to eBay via social media or the unsolicited ideas page that ebay should show buyers the cheapest price for shipping. I.e. fedex and ups can have a significantly different price even 1 zip co...

Help! What is USPS doing with my package? I can't get any help from USPS either!

I'm so baffled by what USPS is doing with this package! It is so bizarre. Below are the tracking notes since I re-dropped it back to my local post office in CA on Jan 20. This package was originally returned to me here in CA from Florida by an error ...

System won't allow me to enter tracking on large combined order

After a long pause the page to add tracking comes up blank. I could manually go into each of 38 orders but my time is too valuable.

Purchased ebay shipping and it gave me tracking #. Went to ship had to purchase new shipping

Sales Tax

Why does Ebay charge sales tax on shipping charges, these are exempt from tax in Illinois ?

over charge for shipping after a label was printed and shipped

I recently shipped a package after printing a label, the original charge was 13.67 after the package was delivered I was charged 40.07?? I tried to contact EBAY, no luck, I called Fed Ex and they said it was an issue with ebay, this is like pissing i...

Good Riddance Regional

With the simplicity of Regionals I never bothered to deal with Cubic when it first came out. I thought it was too complicated to save a bit more money.Now that Regional is gone and I'm forced to maximize Cubic potential, I'm finding out that I'll be ...

Shipping Issues on Ebay Combined and Flat Rate

If you use Combined or Flat Rate shipping, there is an Ebay issue where they are not properly applying it.I have a flat rate of 4.21 plus 1.50 for each item up to a max of 8.95.If a customer purchases an item they are getting 4.21 for every item with...

I have a large box to ship, but I am not given options to ship one of its size.

Seller sent item through Fedex instead of Economy shipping, suspiciously high brokerage fees

I'm a Canadian buyer who purchased an item from Japan last November. Seller specified two shipping methods on their listing: Free Economy shipping with no tracking/insurance, and expedited shipping with tracking and insurance for 4 dollars extra. I d...

Estimated delivery date

Sold an item, 01/24. I shipped on 01/25. I have 5 days handling time. Said ship by 01/31. Estimated time of delivery that Ebay showed buyer was 01/28! Before my official ship date? this makes no sense.