$1 item including postage?

[brightcrafted]

Hi there, I am new to eBay selling. I was just doing some research lately and notice a few low-cost items that are selling for $1 including postage within Australia. How is that even possible without making a loss since the cheapest postage Australia Post do is $1? I thought this might a loss leader item for the seller but eBay is saying the seller has sold thousands of these items.

Any ideas?

[enigmabear]

Nah, I'm all carped out at the moment here

[purplemon18]

Heh. That's kind of funny. My head office at my regular job sent us a box of postage paid envelopes. So I guess when we mail something it first goes to head office to get lodged properly to be sent to the customer. delivery time must be nearly 2 weeks.

It also occurs to me that my company (with over 100 retail outlets, so pretty big) is ripping AP off since we should really pay postage to get it to HO.

[imastawka]

---

@purplemon18 wrote:

Heh. That's kind of funny. My head office at my regular job sent us a box of postage paid envelopes. So I guess when we mail something it first goes to head office to get lodged properly to be sent to the customer. delivery time must be nearly 2 weeks.

It also occurs to me that my company (with over 100 retail outlets, so pretty big) is ripping AP off since we should really pay postage to get it to HO.

---

Not if you have an internal delivery/courier service.

[liquidationhouseffi]

I just bought a button battery for $1, there was a $1 stamp on the envelope and I received it within 3 days. This really made me feel strange.

[golcarlily2]

This is absolutely ridiculous on the part of EBay. I am unable to list anything unless it’s under those terms. 

[underbat]

Hello everyone, since this thread is 5 years old, we have locked it from further comment.

Feel free to start a new thread