can I exclude selling to western US because of high shipping?Especially California I'm on Eastern US

[twin25]

I end up making next to nothing because of the costs so high

[albertabrightalberta]

Why cut off so many potential buyers just because of shipping prices? 

I see that you use calculated shipping - price is based on location. Buyers see what it will cost and if they want the item and agree to the shipping cost, they buy. I'm not sure I understand the issue.

[mtgraves7984]

You can't disallow sales to half the country, but you can charge more for your s&h costs. Good luck to you.

[nobody*s_perfect]

Your listings indicate that you are in Wisconsin, which most of us would not consider to be "eastern" US.  In fact, you are in that special midwest area where all of the contiguous 48 states are within the USPS Zone 7 or closer.

As noted in other posts, you can't exclude specific states.  BUT you can change your shipping site preferences so that buyers are charged the retail postage cost rather than the discounted eBay price.  The online discount then provides a built-in handling fee to cover expenses such as packaging materials and eBay fees. It's under "Shipping discount settings" here:

https://www.ebay.com/ship/prf

[soh.maryl]

Buyers pay for shipping.  If you are under-charging buyers for shipping, why?

[chevymontecarlo88]

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@twin25 wrote:

I end up making next to nothing because of the costs so high

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Well as others have stated, you can adjust your shipping costs to avoid that.

That being said, sometimes i do wish there was a way to remove certain areas of the country that i ship items.

If you could do it for other countries, it should be able to be done to states as well. Of course that would be counter intuitive to Ebay and will not happen. Be one can dream. 😀

[deserdog]

Are you building in part of the shipping cost into the price of the item? 

[orangehound]

I use shipping rate tables for most listings, and these can be used to effectively exclude certain states.

Once, I had a multi-quantity listing that had free shipping to zones 1-4, but $49.95 shipping to zones 5-9.   Every sale was to zones 1-4.

[loose_goose_garage]

I exclude Hawaii, Alaska and US Territories on some of my heavier/ bigger items since it ends up being much more expensive to ship their as UPS and FedEx consider them "International" and USPS is just expensive in general for larger items. But as for other individual states, no. I'm in New England so to me half the country is Zone 8, I get what you mean but it's just part of selling online. It balances out between closer and farther away states at the end of day.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@loose_goose_garage wrote:

I exclude Hawaii, Alaska and US Territories 

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I've had some of my best sales to buyers in Hawaii, Alaska and US Territories because it's cheaper for them to buy from me (on the east coast) and pay for shipping than it is for them to buy locally. 

IMO, excluding those states is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.

[loose_goose_garage]

All of my listings are listed with Free Shipping. In turn, to cover shipping costs to possible buyers in those states, I would need to raise the prices quite a bit, which then makes it much more expensive for other buyers in the 48 states, and loses the competitive pricing aspect for a large chunk of buyers.

Like I said, I only exclude them on large/ heavy items that I know I wouldn't ship through USPS normally, and due to UPS/ Fedex charging so much for me to ship to them, as the shipping cost is built into item price, but not for those 2 States and the Territories

The other 95% of my items are Free Shipping to all 50 states and Territories.

But I agree, if I had calculated shipping on all of my listings, then I wouldn't exclude them, as it wouldn't be a factor in the item price itself.