@digi
No offence taken, and you've raised very relevant issues. I figured out long ago that if your selling products that don't fit through the Auspost 20mm gauge, you're going to be pushing it up hill to make a profit, especially when competing with the Chinese sellers, who pay pitence in postage, and are not subject to the 20mm rule once their products hit our shore.
I'm slowly phasing out some of my bulky items and sticking to smaller products that slip through the 20mm gauge, with only $1.40 or $2.10 postage.
I also find that you are competing with sellers who do not put a return address on the items they sell, and are knowingly under paying postage. How can you compete with that? You can't. Unless you have an ABN and are registered wit auspost, and print false price postage labels on your items, and hope like hell auspost doesn't pick up on it.
I've often bought bulky items from Aussie sellers, who put a $1.40 computer generated label on it. But is an item thicker than 20mm and is really a $7.15 satchel type item. (Does that make sense?).
But again, this all boils back down to competition. It is the common denominator in everything that has been brought up in this thread, IMHO
No offence taken, and you've raised very relevant issues. I figured out long ago that if your selling products that don't fit through the Auspost 20mm gauge, you're going to be pushing it up hill to make a profit, especially when competing with the Chinese sellers, who pay pitence in postage, and are not subject to the 20mm rule once their products hit our shore.
I'm slowly phasing out some of my bulky items and sticking to smaller products that slip through the 20mm gauge, with only $1.40 or $2.10 postage.
I also find that you are competing with sellers who do not put a return address on the items they sell, and are knowingly under paying postage. How can you compete with that? You can't. Unless you have an ABN and are registered wit auspost, and print false price postage labels on your items, and hope like hell auspost doesn't pick up on it.
I've often bought bulky items from Aussie sellers, who put a $1.40 computer generated label on it. But is an item thicker than 20mm and is really a $7.15 satchel type item. (Does that make sense?).
But again, this all boils back down to competition. It is the common denominator in everything that has been brought up in this thread, IMHO
