Cam wrote:I dunno. Postage seems to vary wildly from seller to seller. I almost always buy from sellers who quote reasonable postage. I have seen rates vary by over 40 dollars for the same items. There are a lot of great sellers with good postage rates. I have found that ebay has a terrible postage calculator though. Great sellers will make a quote, and send you a rebate if the postage cost is less. On the other hand, if they have quoted too low, I offer to send them the difference as well. Makes for good relations with sellers, and yo never know if they are going to have the item you have bee hunting for up for sale next week!
Cam
I wish I was selling to you
I've never had anyone offer to pay when I've underestimated the postage!
I mostly sell on a site called etsy and if I didn't post to the US and Canada I'd be as well packing it in. Etsy has a system where you quote a postage price for the item, and another price if it is in with something else. This makes sense from a weight point of view, the only problem I have is when I sell an order of maybe 5 items which have a total value of £20 plus. 20 quid is my 'cut off' point - above that and I send with some kind of tracking, usually at my own expense. Below that and if it goes missing I refund out of my own pocket. If I applied tracking to every item I'd lose a lot of sales so reckon it's best to take the risk - it happens maybe 3 times a year. I would never ask a buyer to make up a shortfall as that would be like expecting them to pay for my mistake. I always refund overcharges and very rarely get thanked for it.
From a buyers point of view I'm sick of ebay sellers profiting on postage and have no hesitation in marking them down for it. There may be a few who do it through laziness, but I reckon most of them know fine what they are doing so don't even give them the opportunity to make it right, I'd rather hammer their feedback.
