<< <i>In the case I was referring to above, when a single slabbed coin is being shipped, obviously priority mail is not the shipping method a seller should choose. >>
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that?
In the case I was referring to above, when a single slabbed coin is being shipped, obviously priority mail is not the shipping method a seller should choose. >>
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that?
Sure, there's nothing "wrong" with that...but keep charging even actual priority mail shipping costs to ship coins valued at less than $100 and let's see what your DSR shipping rating will be...I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you won't make powerseller status either, LOL..
And you said yourself in a post above that priority mail shipping is no better than first class, so why would you choose to make post office rich?
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>And you said yourself in a post above that priority mail shipping is no better than first class, so why would you choose to make post office rich? >>
I wouldn't, but I'm not foolish enough to insist that what I would or would not do is the correct course of action for everybody else, too. Suppose you were selling off some extra slabs from your collection, but were not intending on selling long-term. You're not going to become a powerseller, and your DSR ratings are not going to matter all that much. What makes more sense- running around scrounging for boxes to use for shipping or getting PM boxes at the post office? In that case, I'd use the PM boxes. But then, that's just me.
<< <i>In the case I was referring to above, when a single slabbed coin is being shipped, obviously priority mail is not the shipping method a seller should choose. >>
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that? >>
Because you can ship it first class mail for $2.50 including delivery conf and the cost of the padded envelope. So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry
In the case I was referring to above, when a single slabbed coin is being shipped, obviously priority mail is not the shipping method a seller should choose. >>
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that? >>
Because you can ship it first class mail for $2.50 including delivery conf and the cost of the padded envelope. So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry
Exactly.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry >>
Unless you held a gun to the buyer's head, you didn't force him to do anything.
Personally, I think PM mail for lightweight items is a waste of money, but there are any number of reasons a seller might choose to use a free PM box over buying packaging materials. Doesn't make him a bad guy- just someone with a different idea about how he wants to deal with shipping stuff.
<< <i>So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry >>
Unless you held a gun to the buyer's head, you didn't force him to do anything.
Personally, I think PM mail for lightweight items is a waste of money, but there are any number of reasons a seller might choose to use a free PM box over buying packaging materials. Doesn't make him a bad guy- just someone with a different idea about how he wants to deal with shipping stuff. >>
I sometimes offer PM as a second option but nobody seems to want to pay the extra $2.50. If I were the buyer I would much prefer the $2.50. --Jerry
<< <i>If I were the buyer I would much prefer the $2.50. --Jerry >>
I would, too. But then again, how somebody else manages their shipping is not something that's up to me to decide.
One of the frustrating things about eBay is that so many people seem to take the position that there's only one right way to do things. Where I live, there is no street delivery of mail- everybody has a post office box. Maybe our hypothetical seller lives in a place like that and figures it's just easier to use the free PM boxes he can get at the post office, since he's going to be there every day anyway. Choosing to do that doesn't make him wrong- if you don't like his policy, you don't have to bid on his auctions.
I don't think the question here is about whether choosing to ship via PM is wrong, but in response to the OP and the question posed in the title of this thread, if you choose to ship PM as a seller for lightweight items that can be shipped via FVM for a couple dollars less, your DSR shipping rating will suffer because of it.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I sold like 5 coins in the last 2 months but one jackass said I had poor communication and left feedback so I dropped below 4.6, I guess I should never take a vacation again in case an Ebay buyer writes.
I will now pay $69 more in fees to sell a coin that was under $100.
Blocked the bidder and now can sell 10 coins for a total of $100 so if I want to sell something over $1000 I can get the 20% off fees again, in the mean time bay looses as I am not trying to sell anything without raising the price to cover higher fees.
Buyers don't get it but when you leave bad detailed feedback for a seller eBay makes more money therefore the seller charges more, the buyers end up loosing better deals by doing so.
For low volume sellers this is just a joke!
I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
<< <i> I looked over some of your completed coin auctions, and you were charging $3.95 to ship items, that would cost you at the most ( with Delivery Confirmation- 3 oz 1st class package rate) $1.75. Granted the cost did not include the bubble envelope. I don't consider that "an actual cost." >>
Sellers are required to provide insurance but can no longer charge separately nor offer it as an option. Ebay specifically told us to fold the cost into S&H.
I would like to know where I buy padded envelopes for free since you don't consider it an "actual cost"
Looking at Coin World shows MINIMUM S&H ranging from $6 to $10 regardless of the size of the order.
Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
<< <i>if you choose to ship PM as a seller for lightweight items that can be shipped via FVM for a couple dollars less, your DSR shipping rating will suffer because of it. >>
Of course they will. Because obviously, bidders who agree to your terms when they bid always have the option of complaining about the terms they agreed to after the fact.
if you choose to ship PM as a seller for lightweight items that can be shipped via FVM for a couple dollars less, your DSR shipping rating will suffer because of it. >>
Of course they will. Because obviously, bidders who agree to your terms when they bid always have the option of complaining about the terms they agreed to after the fact.
Welcome to the world of ebay!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i> I looked over some of your completed coin auctions, and you were charging $3.95 to ship items, that would cost you at the most ( with Delivery Confirmation- 3 oz 1st class package rate) $1.75. Granted the cost did not include the bubble envelope. I don't consider that "an actual cost." >>
Sellers are required to provide insurance but can no longer charge separately nor offer it as an option. Ebay specifically told us to fold the cost into S&H.
I would like to know where I buy padded envelopes for free since you don't consider it an "actual cost"
Looking at Coin World shows MINIMUM S&H ranging from $6 to $10 regardless of the size of the order. >>
Frank makes a good point... a lot of those who whine and wail about spending an extra buck or two via eBay are the same people who don't seem to have any problem spending $5-6-7-8 extra on other venues. I guess eBayers aren't considered "real sellers" somehow. The people who cry the loudest about saving a buck also seem to be those who cry loudest when there's a problem. Speaking personally, we use Priority Mail almost exclusively; when we do charge we don't pad the cost with anything extra-supplies are free, DC is free...but we offer free shipping on many if not most auctions, so believe me, buyers have NOTHING to complain about...yet our shipping star is still 4.9. I firmly believe that I could hand deliver it personally and someone would still find a reason to complain about something. So I stopped worrying about it. If I'm charging for shipping and you don't like the actual USPS cost I'm charging with nothing added, don't bid. But shipping's not negotiable. I've managed to do very well for 11 years on ebay with that philosophy.
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<< <i>In the case I was referring to above, when a single slabbed coin is being shipped, obviously priority mail is not the shipping method a seller should choose. >>
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that?
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that?
Sure, there's nothing "wrong" with that...but keep charging even actual priority mail shipping costs to ship coins valued at less than $100 and let's see what your DSR shipping rating will be...I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you won't make powerseller status either, LOL..
And you said yourself in a post above that priority mail shipping is no better than first class, so why would you choose to make post office rich?
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>And you said yourself in a post above that priority mail shipping is no better than first class, so why would you choose to make post office rich? >>
I wouldn't, but I'm not foolish enough to insist that what I would or would not do is the correct course of action for everybody else, too. Suppose you were selling off some extra slabs from your collection, but were not intending on selling long-term. You're not going to become a powerseller, and your DSR ratings are not going to matter all that much. What makes more sense- running around scrounging for boxes to use for shipping or getting PM boxes at the post office? In that case, I'd use the PM boxes. But then, that's just me.
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<< <i>In the case I was referring to above, when a single slabbed coin is being shipped, obviously priority mail is not the shipping method a seller should choose. >>
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that? >>
Because you can ship it first class mail for $2.50 including delivery conf and the cost of the padded envelope. So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry
Why not? Some sellers use the priority mail boxes supplied by the post office. What's wrong with that? >>
Because you can ship it first class mail for $2.50 including delivery conf and the cost of the padded envelope. So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry
Exactly.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry >>
Unless you held a gun to the buyer's head, you didn't force him to do anything.
Personally, I think PM mail for lightweight items is a waste of money, but there are any number of reasons a seller might choose to use a free PM box over buying packaging materials. Doesn't make him a bad guy- just someone with a different idea about how he wants to deal with shipping stuff.
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<< <i>So you just forced the buyer to pay an extra $2.50 for no increase in service. --Jerry >>
Unless you held a gun to the buyer's head, you didn't force him to do anything.
Personally, I think PM mail for lightweight items is a waste of money, but there are any number of reasons a seller might choose to use a free PM box over buying packaging materials. Doesn't make him a bad guy- just someone with a different idea about how he wants to deal with shipping stuff. >>
I sometimes offer PM as a second option but nobody seems to want to pay the extra $2.50. If I were the buyer I would much prefer the $2.50. --Jerry
<< <i>If I were the buyer I would much prefer the $2.50. --Jerry >>
I would, too. But then again, how somebody else manages their shipping is not something that's up to me to decide.
One of the frustrating things about eBay is that so many people seem to take the position that there's only one right way to do things. Where I live, there is no street delivery of mail- everybody has a post office box. Maybe our hypothetical seller lives in a place like that and figures it's just easier to use the free PM boxes he can get at the post office, since he's going to be there every day anyway. Choosing to do that doesn't make him wrong- if you don't like his policy, you don't have to bid on his auctions.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I will now pay $69 more in fees to sell a coin that was under $100.
Blocked the bidder and now can sell 10 coins for a total of $100 so if I want to sell something over $1000 I can get the 20% off fees again, in the mean time bay looses as I am not trying to sell anything without raising the price to cover higher fees.
Buyers don't get it but when you leave bad detailed feedback for a seller eBay makes more money therefore the seller charges more, the buyers end up loosing better deals by doing so.
For low volume sellers this is just a joke!
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
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I looked over some of your completed coin auctions, and you were charging $3.95 to ship items, that would cost you at the most ( with Delivery Confirmation- 3 oz 1st class package rate) $1.75. Granted the cost did not include the bubble envelope. I don't consider that "an actual cost." >>
Sellers are required to provide insurance but can no longer charge separately nor offer it as an option. Ebay specifically told us to fold the cost into S&H.
I would like to know where I buy padded envelopes for free since you don't consider it an "actual cost"
Looking at Coin World shows MINIMUM S&H ranging from $6 to $10 regardless of the size of the order.
<< <i>if you choose to ship PM as a seller for lightweight items that can be shipped via FVM for a couple dollars less, your DSR shipping rating will suffer because of it. >>
Of course they will. Because obviously, bidders who agree to your terms when they bid always have the option of complaining about the terms they agreed to after the fact.
Of course they will. Because obviously, bidders who agree to your terms when they bid always have the option of complaining about the terms they agreed to after the fact.
Welcome to the world of ebay!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>I don't offer free shipping; so, my rating on the shipping charges metric is 4.56. 4.60 is required to remain a Powerseller.
I almost never get the Powerseller discount anyway. Should I care if I lose the Powerseller status? >>
I don't understand eBay: if a seller bids on an item with a pre-posted shipping price, then how can one legitimately gripe about shipping charges???
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I looked over some of your completed coin auctions, and you were charging $3.95 to ship items, that would cost you at the most ( with Delivery Confirmation- 3 oz 1st class package rate) $1.75. Granted the cost did not include the bubble envelope. I don't consider that "an actual cost." >>
Sellers are required to provide insurance but can no longer charge separately nor offer it as an option. Ebay specifically told us to fold the cost into S&H.
I would like to know where I buy padded envelopes for free since you don't consider it an "actual cost"
Looking at Coin World shows MINIMUM S&H ranging from $6 to $10 regardless of the size of the order. >>
Frank makes a good point... a lot of those who whine and wail about spending an extra buck or two via eBay are the same people who don't seem to have any problem spending $5-6-7-8 extra on other venues. I guess eBayers aren't considered "real sellers" somehow. The people who cry the loudest about saving a buck also seem to be those who cry loudest when there's a problem. Speaking personally, we use Priority Mail almost exclusively; when we do charge we don't pad the cost with anything extra-supplies are free, DC is free...but we offer free shipping on many if not most auctions, so believe me, buyers have NOTHING to complain about...yet our shipping star is still 4.9. I firmly believe that I could hand deliver it personally and someone would still find a reason to complain about something. So I stopped worrying about it. If I'm charging for shipping and you don't like the actual USPS cost I'm charging with nothing added, don't bid. But shipping's not negotiable. I've managed to do very well for 11 years on ebay with that philosophy.
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