on 22-04-2014 07:59 AM
If you are selling an item from Melbourne, how can a postage of say 15 dollars be stated when the buyer could be in Queensland or say NT. How does the seller work this out. New to ebay and postage is confusing me. Thanks.
on 23-04-2014 02:11 PM
When I sell anything on Ebay I Box it, Newspaper bubblewrap and packing. I then use Click and Send Scathels and put the box in a 500 gram Or 3Kg scatchel and use Click And Send. My boxes are made up self packaging, I get my boxes from Dan Murphys Free Of charge. Very rarely do I have to ship something over 3kg. If I do I then use Own packaging. This way I can keep my postage for items under 3kg to either $7.15 500 gram satchel or $11.70 3kg Satchel. So if you base your Items items at under 3kg use this method, also remember Ebay will be charging FVF on postagevery soon, What I will be doing and have already started is Charging P&H Fees $1.30 to cover the costs of P&H and ebay and Paypal Fees. Hope this helps some...
Paddy
on 23-04-2014 06:04 PM
I use standard size boxes as purchased at several places and satchels as required. After 20 years posting parcels all over the world I gave up on cutting down wine boxes etc as standard size boxes are usually lighter. ( I hate it when an item weighs in at 520 grams)
The other aspect is how long does it take you to custom cut and size a box. I find it adds five minutes or so to packing so my packing that way only gets half as many parcels packed per hour. By using consistent packaging I never suffered complaints about damage until anonymous DSR arrived. Now negative postage and packing complaints occur regularly in the DSR ratings.
It is also faster and more secure to fill in the address label and return address label rather than making and taping a label to the box.
I would challenge anyone who uses custom packed items to sit alongside me one day and see how many items you can pack per hour in comparison to how many I can do. .
Only trouble is my sales do not make it worthwhile at the moment. Hard to spend an hour packing one parcel per month.
on 24-04-2014 10:06 AM
My post was specifically in response to the OP about how sellers can charge $15.
Also, the advice about using your own boxes to obtain the Aust Post flat rate of $15.05 is incorrect - you must buy the correct Australia Post box - see their conditions:
“This offer is limited to Australia Post mailing boxes in the sizes Bx1, Bx2, and Bx4”.
http://stores.ebay.com.au/australiapoststore/pages/australia-post-store-boxes
In Terms and conditions:
“ Incorrectly labelled boxes, items packed in the wrong sized box, or items packed in a non-Australia Post mailing box and lodged in a street posting box may not be processed by Australia Post and may be returned to sender.
Incorrectly labelled boxes, items packed in the wrong sized box, or items packed in a non-Australia Post mailing box may not be processed in an Australia Post retail outlet”
on 24-04-2014 12:17 PM
on 24-04-2014 12:26 PM
on 24-04-2014 04:31 PM
The eBay and C&S rates are the same, because eBay has done a deal with AP to offer C&S through this site. Although allegedly you get a discount from eBay for using their labels.
If you want to use B4 boxes at $15.05 flat for 15kg (soon to be 5kg) then you need to also use a B4 box. If you want to use your own packaging then weights and dimensions must be provided and the result is calculated, not flat rate. If you choose to not use the required box and get caught, AP will bill you for the, probably considerable, difference between what you paid and what you should have paid. Or if you don't put a return address on it, the buyer will get charged. Almost a guarantee of a neg there.
on 24-04-2014 05:03 PM
on 24-04-2014 06:49 PM
on 24-04-2014 08:19 PM
Perhaps you are confused about how to do your listing? Select calculated postage, then select your postage type (eg standard parcel etc). Once you enter the weight of the item, the listing will automatically show each veiwer the cost of postage to their postcode.
24-04-2014 10:49 PM - edited 24-04-2014 10:51 PM