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Holiday Shipping Dates

We’ve published the carriers' last days to ship for on-time holiday delivery using the services available through eBay Labels. These dates will help ensure your buyers receive their orders in time for the holidays. You can find the details at ebay.co...

Packing international sales.

When you have a GSP (now EIS) sale, do you package it any better/differently than a domestic sale?I heard that ebay will sometimes re-package orders at their hub before forwarding it to the buyer.Is this true?

How do I answer this buyer's question about shipping to their country?

I have a potential auction bidder asking me if the item will ship to Taiwan. I was switched to Ebay International Shipping a while back and most of my listings I've checked had a very LONG list of countries eligible, yippie! But when I look at this o...

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Buyer originally to pick up - now changed to having it shipped

The buyer from another state wanted her brother to pick up the heavy item. When pointed out that he was 5 hours away, she changed to wanting it shipped. My question: how do I now charge her for shipping, since she already paid for the auction with no...

Shipping?, across USA r World how far how much does it cost I don't know what I am doing could use

Don't. know where to start with shipping

Resolved! "Delivered to agent for final delivery"

Just a question, I have many orders that have this status and the funds have not been released yet and it is still not recognized as delivered. I was just wondering when/if the funds will be released and is there a time frame for them being on a hold...

EBay Intenational Shipping – only 30 countries?

Experts, I am in need of your help! I have been rolled over to eBay International Shipping, and this morning got a message about an auction (for a lens) that ends today at 1PM PST. The buyer requested shipping to Japan. I checked the country list in ...

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Shipping to Latvia

UK based seller.i sold an item and afterwards the person said they want me to ship to Latvia. However I already have the Global Shipping turned on. Why shouldn’t this allow the person to pay eBay and I ship to the UK local address? The buyer said I n...

Resolved! Refund for shipping?

I paid $22.95 for expedited shipping 10 days ago for an item shipped domestically and haven't received the item yet. There hasn't been an update for 3 days and tracking says "in transit" with no location. I know what to do if I don't get the item at ...

USPS Tracking Issues?

Hi! I also posted this question in the 'Ask a Mentor' group. But then I thought it might be more applicable here in the Shipping group. So here goes. Is anyone else having issues with the eBay generated tracking numbers working? Or am I just crazy? I...

The 'Free Shipping' Placebo Effect

Whether you want to believe it or not, "free shipping" affects your sales. As sellers, we think to ourselves, "if I add free shipping every customer is going to know I just added the shipping cost to the item cost and just offered free shipping." Not...

Shipping

I want to sell a western saddle that is quite heavy. What is the best way to ship?

Ebay Not Charging Correct Shipping

Hello! I recently changed my shipping costs to calculated shipping so that I can easily cover shipping costs and tracking on my trading cards. However, right after I did it, I noticed that when I was visiting the listing page, it was only charging $0...

Carrier for eBay Standard International delivery

Buyer in Taiwan purchased item March 2. They selected eBay Standard International (no idea if it was by choice or default?) as delivery method.That’s what I used to ship. March 17 they messaged me asking where item was, when would they get it…I sent ...

Shipping

I ordered something and they said it would be here the 24 Friday now its not being delivered till the 27 Monday I could of really used it so I probably won't be ordering from ebay again

PAID SHIPPING and USPS forced my buyer to also Pay Shipping

So as I normally do when shipping product, I pay for USPS shipping, print the label and ship the item. Recently a customer bought tow items totally less that 2 lbs. I boxed the items up in a USPS Priority box and indicated the dimensions and the weig...