I need help with shipping costs.

[SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--]

Hello everybody, I haven't been around much because I am doing a bunch of stuff including culling my collection. I now ahve eleven longs of stuff I want to list and am having trouble figuring out the shipping costs. I am curious as to how y'all explain shipping costs in your listings and what you like to see when you buy?

[fulltimer56]

Hi SS,

Here is one of my old listings so you can see how I use to do my shipping. The only time I worried about weight is if I was listing a BIG lot of comics and/or books. But a postage scale is a most and you can find some good one on ebay and not at to bad of a deal either.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&sspagename=STRK%3AMEUS%3AIT&viewitem=&item=120023614781&rd=1&rd=1

Wish you luck!

Linda

[SatansProdigy]

I use a flat rate. This makes it easier on me and lets the customer know exactly how much it will be.

[Rick Bradford]

I use a flat rate. This makes it easier on me and lets the customer know exactly how much it will be.

Me too. And then I combine for multiple wins and either send a new, final invoice or refund the difference if they already paid.

[SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--]

Wow FT, nice page. I'm not that savy yet, although my time at the coral has taught me how to post images I cannot make a pretty back ground like you have yet. Although, I think your GRADE should stand out more.

What's the flat rate y'all use. I use to use $3.75 for the first book and .50 for each additional book, but that seems so arbitrary and artificially high. At this point I am thinking that I should just say in the listing that I charge exact shipping.

[Hoss]

Hey SS,

I use flat rate of $3.50 for media mail. It's on the high end of low, but I ship in HQ boxes and use all sorts of nifty packing materials. I really don't have to worry about losing on shipping. If the order is big enough to really weigh the box down I know that it was a good sale anyway...so it's all good!

[SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--]

How much do you add on for each additional? And how many will you shilp for $3.50? I think Bnwflix is now shipping as many as you win for a flat $4.00.

[Hoss]

I charge $3.50 for unlimited.

[SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--]

How does that work for you? If I buy two hundred and fifty comics you'll ship them for $3.50? I don't get it.

[Hoss]

Hey SS!

That's exactly right. The most I have ever sent out at once was like 40 books. I only charged $3.50 to ship em all. Most orders from eBay I had were only a few books at a time. Either way, you gain a bit if you sell only a couple and if you sell a bunch of em it makes up the difference in the cost of the books! 5 pounds of books still ships for less than 4 dollars.

I'm talking media rate of course.

[SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--]

hmmmm and this guy is trying to charge me $18 for five DC archive books. Well, I might just go free shipping soon, if I can make it work for me, but for now I'm gonna stick with using Wiley's charges. I stole 'em, I admit it.