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This is cool – thanks for letting us know, allandsundry!
That must be why you’re not seeing the problem with the flat rate options.
I’ve always had to put in dimensions in order to get the shipping calculator to work when I pull it up when I’m creating a listing.AtomicStar,
What dimensions do you have set in your PFRE listings?Thanks, daisy! That sale makes a lot more sense now.
Check out this sale by Crazy Lamp Lady:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Decorative-Ceramic-Fish-Shaped-Trinket-Spoon-Teabag-4-034-Dish-/283484077104?hash=item4200f7bc30%3Ag%3Ax68AAOSwHBVc2ext&nma=true&si=LvPTps9xsBoU0PiVByH1r4dhOm4%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557Is there something special I’m missing about this tiny fish dish or do you think the high price is a result of her QVC-style marketing on youtube? Most of her gewgaws sell for pretty low prices…
I’m not convinced that ebay is going to fix the flat rate issue (I’ll be happy to be wrong). This issue has existed in the new shipping/postage page for months. I reported it at least 4-5 times. And instead of fixing it there, they propagated the issue further. One could argue that it’s not a bug, but rather a feature. If you say that an item is 12x12x12, then it shouldn’t technically be able to fit into a PFRE…
To be clear, I myself see it as a bug.
It’s also for PFREs, not just boxes.
I’ve just finished going through 200 items and changing any item with a flat rate option to dimensions 1x1x1. Sometimes I offer a flat rate box as a second shipping option (especially for shoes), so it doesn’t show up as an error by just looking at the posted listing, so I have to go into every single listing that I think may have a flat rate option.250 more to go. This is one time that I’m glad I don’t have a larger store.
Jay – that’s odd that you are not seeing the problem. Are you sure you’re looking for the right thing? Basically, you go to an item that has a flat rate USPS option as the only shipping option. Look at the listing as a buyer would, and in the place where it usually shows the shipping price, it instead says “Calculate”.
They started collecting for NY as of June 1st.
I’ve been assuming that they know what to collect tax on and what not to, since they also have to do the complex calculation (by county) of how much to collect.
At some point I guess I’ll go back and do a download of my transactions to check.Note: for NY, you still have to file a state sales tax return – it just gets a lot easier – you list your total income and then state that none of it is taxable.
jumble and clutter,
I am also seeing that behavior of selling an item at full price the day after I send offers to watchers on it. Happened twice this week already, which is a lot given that I only sell about 10-15 items a week.“what she does to get the higher prices IS work, even if she makes it look like fun”
Good point, MyCottage. I’m okay with not getting those higher prices b/c I wouldn’t want to put in all that extra work of making videos. Taking a video while scavenging!?!? Yuck – that would spoil all the fun for me.
I totally agree, hausfrau. I’ve been binging on her videos recently, and from time to time she says something like “I do really well with auctions b/c my ebay store has 15k followers. I don’t recommend auctions to any of my viewers unless you happen to have something that has really high demand.”
I like watching her videos in order to learn things, but I’m worried that eventually I will develop an inflated sense of the value of those ceramic and glass items she buys.
Terapeak gives you one year of ebay solds history – it’s great. For me it works just like an ebay search. I use it pretty frequently.
vintage external frame backpack
welcome!
06/08/2019 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Dimensional Shipping Update 2019 – Repercussions of no Measurements #63182My concern is that now I will need to make sure even the smaller items that I’ve put calculated shipping on and that will not be a flat rate, will be charged a higher rate unless I put the measurements on the listing.
What makes you have this concern? Is something changing?
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