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6 for me this week. Balancing my Campground hosting duties and mobile listing has been more tricky than I thought it would be.
Last week we were traveling and settling in to our new gig as campground hosts. So, my listing total was 0. 🙁 This week I am going to start doing some mobile listing and have some numbers to post. Sales have been good and my son is shipping for me back at home.
Have a great week everyone!
Clocking in late again. I listed a total of 9 items last week.
I hope everyone has a great week!
That’s probably it, but I wish ebay would provide an explanation regarding the charge.
In any case I will be increasing my handling charge to $4.00 for future international orders.
I like this challenge. I plan to take a box of paper and ephemera with me on my month long road trip in October. Yes, books are obviously made of paper, but I think they deserve their on stand alone challenge. Maybe even one for fiction and another for nonfiction.
Here’s a break down of the sale I was charged the fee on.
Sale Price $149.99, Shipping $37.05, Handling Charge $2.00, Fixed Final Value Fee $0.30, Final Value Fee $11.47 International Fee $2.47
I shipped this item myself and did not use ebay send or GSP.
Don’t get me wrong. I will still continue to sell internationally, to do otherwise would be crazy.
Perhaps I have been paying this fee all along and Paypal was just better at hiding it.
This doesn’t sound fun either:
If you offer or reference your contact information or ask a buyer for their contact information in the context of buying or selling outside of eBay, you’ll be charged a final value fee based on the total amount of the sale even if your item doesn’t sell.
Be careful my friends.
It seems there are a few unpleasant surprises in Managed Payments. I just incurred an international fee and I’m not happy about it. As always, I try to pass these increases on to the buyer. So, my handling charge for international orders will be increasing.
I had 12 listings last week, which is an improvement for me. This coming Saturday I am going to Idaho to become a campground host for a month or so. Listing will be a challenge, but I plan to take a bunch of small items with me to list. As the Who song says “I’m going mobile”
Mike thank you for your well written and detailed post. I plan to experiment with you formula. I tend to price high myself, and think my higher price “pulls up” the price on lower priced listings. I have not measured this or documented it, It is just my gut feeling.
It’s amazing that it has taken ebay so many years to make this change that sellers have wanted for so long.
