Can't use PayPal labels anymore... HELP....outrageous shipping due to USPS !!!

chaz43

Ridiculous.... when I ship 6 x 9 inch envelope (with a PSA slab), a small bubble cushion under 3/4" thickness and weighs 2oz., should not cost a friggin' $1.32 on the PayPal label !!!!! I guess I have to go back to stamps.... yuck. Any help would be appreciated. chaz

ctsoxfan

Those are the new rates, effective today. Why do you think it will be cheaper if you use stamps?

WinPitcher

Geez, most charge 3.00 for shipping, are we really losing yet?

Steve

chaz43

<< <i>Those are the new rates, effective today. Why do you think it will be cheaper if you use stamps? >>




I am going to have to go to the Post Office and find out, meet the lion head on. I will let you know. chaz

sagard

Save yourself some time and money and print it off with PayPal and be done. New rates. Same postal lines.

chaz43

<< <i>Save yourself some time and money and print it off with PayPal and be done. New rates. Same postal lines. >>



It's brutal but you have a good point. Hate to charge customers more for shipping but I have no choice. chaz

RipublicaninMass

The post office will stick it up you A$$$ if you mailer is less than 3/4 of an inch. Shipping was about 5$ last time I dared to enter the post office....NEVER AGAIN

gosteelers

<< <i>Geez, most charge 3.00 for shipping, are we really losing yet?

Steve >>



$3.00 is too cheap now...

1-Bubble mailer cost
2-Delivery Confirm
3-New postage rate increases
4-If you decide to drive to the P.O.-$3.00 gas per gallon

Why wouldn't you up your rates if you're a seller?

earlycalguy

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<< <i>Geez, most charge 3.00 for shipping, are we really losing yet?

Steve >>



$3.00 is too cheap now...

1-Bubble mailer cost
2-Delivery Confirm
3-New postage rate increases
4-If you decide to drive to the P.O.-$3.00 gas per gallon

Why wouldn't you up your rates if you're a seller? >>



psa wasted no time upping their shipping rates. they already had a good cushion built into their rates.

onefasttalon

$3.00 is too cheap now... Why wouldn't you up your rates if you're a seller?

Let's break this down further....

1-Bubble mailer cost --> If you're paying more than $.25/ea you need to find an alternate source.
2-Delivery Confirm --> $.75
3-New postage rate increases --> MOST bubble-mailers will be less than $1.35 (in fact, several are only in the $.60 range now)
4-If you decide to drive to the P.O.-$3.00 gas per gallon --> This is the seller's cost of doing business... don't forget, the post office will come and pick up your packages if should desire.

.... where we at? $2.35 per bubble-mailer on the high-end? I believe this will get a large majority of single card auctions and up to 2/3 graded card auctions.
Even if you're already at $3 for a single card, you're still doing fine.... in fact, you're even making $$. It's the retards charging $4+ to ship a single card that kill me.

I certainly do not mean ANY disrespect, but I can't imagine anybody justifying raising shipping costs by $.50 - $1 more when in all reality it MIGHT be affected by a 02 - 25 cent increase.

Larger packages/boxes... sure. Shipping for these items will be affected a lot more.

Graphix

I think delivery confirmation is free if you make your labels online. But I think Signature confirmation went up.

onefasttalon

But I think Signature confirmation went up.

Not needed if you insure it for more than $50.... it's required upon delivery.
If you're post office has been selling you signature confirmation for items you've insured for $50 or more, they've been taking advantage of you.

Graphix

No, I understand I was just throwing it out there

chaz43

<< <i>I think delivery confirmation is free if you make your labels online. But I think Signature confirmation went up. >>





No, delivery confirmation is 18 cents now. chaz

nam812

I think i'm gonna hold steady at $2.50 for up to 15 raw cards. My size 000 bubble mailers cost 9 cents each (500 for $44 shipped), and my size 0 bubble mailers were like 16 cents each. 15 and 25 count snap cases are 22 cents each (buying 100 at a time from BCW) Stamps.com charges 18 cents for delivery confirm. So, 15 vintage cards in a 25 count snap case inserted into a 000 bubble mailer weighs 2.3 ounces, so you pay for 3 ounces which costs $1.47 That means:

Bubble Mailer = $0.09 or $0.16
Hinged 25 count snap case = $0.22
Stamps.com delivery confirmation = $0.18
Postal fees for 3 ounces = $1.47
Not standing in line at the post office thanks to stamps.com = priceless

Graphix

well that sucks right along with all the other new changes. I posted in the other thread about bubble mailers that there was a guy at another teller at PO was having trouble today. He had a bubble mailer and what looked like a paypal mail label on it. He and the clerk were going back and forth about the problem (I only caught a little bit of it), but it sounded like he had selected small envelope as the size and his paypal label (the long one) ran the length of the mailer. Apparently the label has to be placed so it can be read when holding it like a regular envelope or you have to pay an additional charge for an odd sized package or something. Maybe I misunderstood but was getting heated when I left.

chaz43

<< <i>well that sucks right along with all the other new changes. I posted in the other thread about bubble mailers that there was a guy at another teller at PO was having trouble today. He had a bubble mailer and what looked like a paypal mail label on it. He and the clerk were going back and forth about the problem (I only caught a little bit of it), but it sounded like he had selected small envelope as the size and his paypal label (the long one) ran the length of the mailer. Apparently the label has to be placed so it can be read when holding it like a regular envelope or you have to pay an additional charge for an odd sized package or something. Maybe I misunderstood but was getting heated when I left. >>




Greed.... Greed.....Greed.... USPS + Paypal. chaz

qmayer

My paypal shipping doesn't print out the bottom half "Online Label Record" portion of the page after I print out postage. Is anyone else experiencing this? I can't find an option to turn it back on.

Justin

jmbkb4

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<< <i>Geez, most charge 3.00 for shipping, are we really losing yet?

Steve >>



$3.00 is too cheap now...

1-Bubble mailer cost
2-Delivery Confirm
3-New postage rate increases
4-If you decide to drive to the P.O.-$3.00 gas per gallon

Why wouldn't you up your rates if you're a seller? >>



Mark, there is now reason why you shouldn't charge $4/card on the 1993 Refractors you sell I've been charging it for well over a year now and my sales have never been better.

Come join me and have a little cushion to help absorb eBay and PayPal's fees!!

colebear

<< <i>My paypal shipping doesn't print out the bottom half "Online Label Record" portion of the page after I print out postage. Is anyone else experiencing this? I can't find an option to turn it back on.

Justin >>



You have to go into your profile and change it to print receipt under shipping preferences

colebear

Maybe I am a minority here, but I guess I figure I would rather charge a little under to keep a customer. I am keeping my rates at $2.00/card 1.00/each additional with a cap at $6.00

It is a tough seller world out there on ebay and I need to worry about the keeping the customers I have rather than making an additional 50 cents in shipping. Especially with the new ebay feedback system that is already pointing the sellers with customers that are unhappy with some part of service. I hate the system but I am going to make sure I maintain fives in all four categories.

Take a look at the infamous Gary, already has a 4.5 in shipping cost to go with his feedback of 97%. I noticed an auction he had for the Bill Ripken FF card in PSA 10 sold for under $40 and about a month ago I sold one for over $90. difference is definitely worth keeping my shipping where they are at.

As much as we curse the feedback system, it works in pointing out the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Just my two cents

grote15

good, the bad, and the ugly.

And Lord knows Gary belongs in the latter part of that group!

storm888

I made a second PO run this afternoon, because
I am busy tomorrow.

The new prices are killers.

The bad stuff is in the category of non-flat-rate Priority.
Depending on size/shape, it looks like about 50% more
$ than it was on some destinations/zones.

They also cannot give out the new insurance tickets yet.
Maybe by "Friday." Stuff from $1 to $200 gets the new black
insurance ticket. It has to be filled out b4 you drop the items.
Stuff over $200 uses the old blue ticket. It appears that INS
between $100 and $200 went down a bit.

My new plan is to use ONLY flat-rate Priority packages.
That means I will have to start selling more expensive
stuff.

This is not good. I will have to raise prices a bit to keep the
"Free" shipping scheme alive.

Not good.

pandrews

<< <i>4-If you decide to drive to the P.O.-$3.00 gas per gallon --> This is the seller's cost of doing business... don't forget, the post office will come and pick up your packages if should desire. >>



everything is the "sellers cost of doing business".. you've obviously never been in business.. nobody goes into business for it to "cost" them.. you're supposed to cover your costs with profit, otherwise you'll be out of business very soon.. also, don't forget the post office WILL NOT come and pick up your packages if you should desire, unless you mail them via PRIORITY MAIL, EXPRESS MAIL, or GLOBAL EXPREE MAIL, all of which cost much more than you would probably be willing to pay as a cheapskate customer. (no offense to you for being cheap)



<< <i>It's the retards charging $4+ to ship a single card that kill me.

I certainly do not mean ANY disrespect, but I can't imagine anybody justifying raising shipping costs by $.50 - $1 more when in all reality it MIGHT be affected by a 02 - 25 cent increase. >>



yeah, you certainly dont mean ANY disrespect by calling anybody a retard, right?.. well I certainly mean no offense to you, but your whole message was retarded..

rbdjr1

<< <i>Maybe I am a minority here, but I guess I figure I would rather charge a little under to keep a customer. I am keeping my rates at $2.00/card 1.00/each additional with a cap at $6.00

It is a tough seller world out there on ebay and I need to worry about the keeping the customers I have rather than making an additional 50 cents in shipping. Especially with the new ebay feedback system that is already pointing the sellers with customers that are unhappy with some part of service. I hate the system but I am going to make sure I maintain fives in all four categories.

Take a look at the infamous Gary, already has a 4.5 in shipping cost to go with his feedback of 97%. I noticed an auction he had for the Bill Ripken FF card in PSA 10 sold for under $40 and about a month ago I sold one for over $90. difference is definitely worth keeping my shipping where they are at.

As much as we curse the feedback system, it works in pointing out the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Just my two cents >>



Me too! I just went down from $3 to $2 for the first card. I'm going to try this for a while and see if it helps!

rd

f2tornado

Here is the deal, not simple but not all that complicated: If your bubble mailer is more than 3/4 inch thick then you have a parcel and pay the parcel rate ($1.13, $1.31 with DC and also Paypal label default). If you want DC then your package must be 3/4 inch thick and is therefore a parcel. The USPS defines a bubble mailer between 1/4 and 3/4 inch thick as a large envelope ($0.80+). 99+% of shipped cards would fall in this category if DC wasn't needed. Since the large envelope is NOT 3/4 inch thick then it cannot get DC.

If you are selling cheap cards (my definition being less than $25 but your threshold may vary) then I see no significant reason to mess with DC unless you have a potential clown based on feedback. I have NEVER had a buyer of cheap stuff perform a chargeback as there is little profit incentive to do so. Overcharging the buyer for shipping is simply gonna lose sales. What is the point of throwing DC on a $3 card anyway? You might as well pocket the expense and self insure. With that said, my advice would be to ship cheap cards at the large envelope rate. I am going to use a two-pronged shipping approach. I will advertise a lower shipping rate on my cheap stuff and a higher rate for stuff requiring DC ($1.85 and $2.50 respectively). I will be using the APC for domestic packages to avoid clerks with no clue. Most everything you need to know is right on the USPS webpage.