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Ebay sales are almost zero. Poshmark has exploded because they started a .99 shipping special on everything this week. Vinted is still holding out their .99-3.99 (I am gradually selling off different cheap stuff there from my house or that I don’t want to list). Mercari is free shipping on $50 and up. Mercari is still slow.
I deleted some low dollar old recycled stuff on Ebay, tried giving 25% of my shipping discount to the buyer and upped my promoted rate on the items they suggested it for to 4-6%. None of this worked. I sold an item CA to AK and they undercharged the buyer by $3 so I took off the pass through of my discount. I just want to break even on shipping after fees and supplies (I used mainly recycled supplies). Then I like to discount my items in ways the buyer will notice like coupons and sales.
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I did see someone suggest —on a Facebook group —to set up ebay shipping to give the buyer the discount we get as TRS sellers, but add a decent handling charge to make up for at least some of the money we lose by passing the discount through to the buyer. It might not be a bad idea?
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@RetroTreasuresWV
Do you pass the TRS shipping discount on to your buyer, or do you charge the buyer the counter price?
Or do you use a flat rate, with some buyers getting a better deal than others depending on whjch zone they live in?
I think shipping has become a real challenge, and I think as ebay sellers we are at an obvious disadvantage when other sites are subsidizing lower rates for our buyers. How sustainable those subsidies are is an open question, presumably they are treated as a marketing expense, but because they are newer and smaller sites they also need to spend on regular marketing to let people know about the lower shipping costs. But I’ve started listing a few things on depop largely because of the lower shipping rates (and ebay owns depop, so they are subsidizing their depop sellers, just not their ebay sellers)….
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I’m doing well with a flat rate under a pound since Ebay open – currently I have that at $7.99 + $2 extra for multiquantity. Above a pound (calculated) I just looked back through my shipping labels for standard size items and have a number of them over $10, up to $18 with the discount. Being coastal I don’t think I can make a USPS flat rate work. Casa Chic said the Ebay reps told her that calculated shipping items now get seen on Google and Ebay “fixed that”. I’m not sure if that is true or not.
I tried passing on 25% of my discount. Ebay then gave the buyer 25% off the discounted price, not 25% off the savings. Someone else in a Facebook group reported this as well. So I switched it back.
Also if I didn’t mention it, I tried upping the promoted percentage on the remaining lower dollar items in my store if Ebay had flagged it to the suggested rate – between 4-7%. Sold none of that. Switched everything to 3% yesterday.
I’ve got some things going on but I did get back to listing. It’s still very slow on Ebay. Vinted has been very good and Poshmark had a big burst after the .99 announcement but has slowed a bit. I turned off automated offers on Posh and have been sending out a ton of offers.
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