How is everyone dealing with the new Aust Post Pricing?

[jeezyrizzle]

How is everyone approaching these new changes? These price rises are going to hurt alot of people especially if you have been offering free postage.

I know there are some items (less than $15 with free postage) where the margins are pretty tight and I have noticed that they haven't gone up in price as yet.

Also what is the cheapest way to send small items?

[digital*ghost]

I'll be getting rid of all my lower-priced parcel items, possibly fazing out the category that requires parcels altogether, depending on how things go the next month or two, and concentrating on my other categories where the majority of items go at large letter rates.

[thecatspjs]

Drinking more red wine and muttering to myself more than usual 😐

[thesoulyearns]

The <500g parcel rate has only gone up an extra .35c, so that rate shouldn't hurt sellers who offer free postage. The new rate includes tracking, which has the benefit (according to the current eBay guide) of giving an automatic 5 star Communication if tracking is uploaded within a business day of cleared payment (and other criteria are met.) So, it's good for a seller that tracking is automatically included now.

About sending small items; if your items width/thickness is less than 20mm and weighs under 500g, you can most likely send it as a large letter. Great for CDs, DVDs and the like. The rates for those haven't changed and should be around $1.20 or $1.80 for stamps.

[the-kazbar]

The <500g parcel rate has only gone up an extra .35c, so that rate shouldn't hurt sellers who offer free postage.

Don't forget about ebays increased FVF which affects sellers with 'free' postage as they are ultimately paying FVF for the item amount + the postage component incorporated in the price

Believe it or not, many low value items only have VERY low margins so $0.35 + the additional FVF can wipe out any profit altogether.

[curraone]

The <500g parcel rate has only gone up an extra .35c, so that rate shouldn't hurt sellers who offer free postage. The new rate includes tracking,

the ebay satchel rate for 500g now costs me $7.30 with click and send;  so it is cheaper to send an ordinary parcel, it still gets tracking, and it costs $6.95.

pretty dismal then, when we were told the click and send was the bees knees.

[historicaonline]

At the moment, I've stopped listing items which can be posted and sticking with pick up only. Until I can sort out if AusPost is still the best option or whether or not to go to a courier service. Also, until I see an update in the Seller Protection policy, I'm not posting anything. Fortunately for me, I'm only a casual seller but if it's causing me so many worries, I feel for some of the more regular sellers 😞

[phorum_junkie*]

Well I have closed my store as usual but in preparation for reopening in November I have edited my items in Turbo Lister to increase my free post items by between $1.50 & $2, I already factored in $7.20 so that will more than cover the click & send rise plus the rise in fees minus the old 40c listing fee.

Of course there is no guarantee it won't change again in October but I doubt if it will increase by more than I can absorb in the new pricing.

[shepherdsrule]

Most are going to be angry (understandably) but if you have a business to run I guess you suck it up and do the best you can until it just becomes completely unviable.

I don't like it, but luckily I use AP very rarely, in fact the size and weight of most items make it impossible and I have always had to deal with the couriers cost. Now however, they are almost more in line - sell price/freight cost wise so I will keep going for a while longer.

We will all have just got used to it, and they will go up again, seems the only thing not going up around here is profit margin 😞

[beautysecretfashion]

I would like to know WHY is there Click & Send now?? What is the benefit to sellers, I'm going bald with the constant scratching of my headII