Ebay Shipping Fees

I've been browsing eBay today, and noticed something very interesting with shipping charges on eBay. Sometimes, the same item is shipped for a very different price, depending on the user. This could be bad or good. If you charge 20$ shipping for an item that costs you 3$ to ship - buyer will not be happy, and might leave you neutral or even negative feed back. Do not over charge on shipping fees ! Some buyer will not even consider bidding on your item because of shipping fees being very high.

Before listing an item, I check the fees on the local post company/service (Canada Post, UPS, FedEx...etc) website then I add 0.5$ (enveloppe, tape). I also offer different shipping methods, regular, air, priority and so on, of course the fee varies for each of these methods.




If you are scared of losing money on shipping and do not trust the online shipping calculators, please drop by your local post office, bring the item with you and ask how much they charge to ship it. Don't forget to request the fee for additional services like insurance. If you will be sending a Playstation or something expensive, getting an insurance for couple of bucks may be very worthy.

I will repeat once more, DO NOT OVER CHARGE.

If you sell ebooks, desktop wallpapers or any other e-products, don't charge for shipping - you know it's free, so does the buyer. eBay offers a digital delivery shipping, this means the buyer recieves a website link where he(she) could download the item, you could also e-mail this info or the item to the buyer. If you will do it by e-mail, try setting up an automated delivery system or make sure you e-mail the item ASAP! Buyer will not be happy waiting an eternity for an ebook, that he is very curious to read at this exact moment.