Ebay question- How do the shipping charges get estimatied before items are mailed?
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There are several ways to do it:\n\n1. Box the item with all the packaging materials and go to the post office and have them estimate the price for you. Use several zip codes - the farthest the better - so you can be safe in estimating your shipping fee\n\n2. Buy a weighing scale. Once you know how much your item weighs, you can calculate your shipping cost. Go to USPS website to calculate your shipping fees http://www.usps.com/tools/calculatepostage/welcome.htm?from=home&page=0061calculatepostage\n\nIf you sell the item frequently, you can get a feel for how much shipping costs. With the items I sell, for example (vintage postcards), I know how much it costs so I just give a flat rate to my buyers.
809972
3 days via First-Class Mail ($0.39)\n2 Days via Priority Mail ($4.05)\nOvernight via Express Mail ($14.40)\n\nIf you mail it early Monday, you should be alright with regular First-Class mail. (I'm not guessing, I actually used the calculator on the USPS website.)
315037
Take it to the post office and have them weigh it or go to www.usps.com to check on international rates.
231757
I have my own eBay business.    The first thing I would do is buy some inexpensive things on eBay, just to get some positive feedback.  The first thing I bought was a VHS tape for $.99.  The trick to being successful is to pick a category that doesn't have that many sellers, and is something that people want.  If you pick a category that comes up with 500,000 items up for auction, people just aren't going to browse through that category to see what everyone has.  Even when you refine your search on a category that big it usually comes up with 30,000...still too many for browsing.  I always ship USPS Priority Mail because there is a flat rate box (12x14x3) that is one price, no matter how much it weighs....so if you can fit it in that box it's only one price. The Post Office will also come and pick your shipment up for free with Priority Mail, so there's no going to the Post Office and customers get their product in 2-3 days.  (I've found that people don't want to wait for their stuff longer than 3 days.)  I don't want to tell you what I'm selling because I don't want the category to get overloaded with sellers.  But I do well, I am able to support myself, no problem.  I actually started out with only $500.  When you put your product up for auction you have a choice of a 7 day or a 10 day auction.  I always do the 10 day auction starting it on a Friday.  That way you have 2 weekends for people to look at your stuff.  Some sellers don't accept PayPal as a method of payment because you have to give a percentage of your profit of a sale to them if it is used by your buyer.  I personally won't buy from people that don't take PayPal because you have protection against a seller that is trying to rip you off.  I have only had good experiences with my customers and  with PayPal, and I have a 100% positive feedback rate.  If you have any more questions you can email me at:\n\nebayenigma@luv2kre8it.com
919867
I have not shipped furniture, but just make sure you dont short change yourself on shipping charges.  Take only PayPal, money orders or cashiers checks, something you can not get burned with.  Make sure if item is expensive, make insurance necessary so that you wont be held in a liable state for lost/damaged item.  I do not ship overseas, too much red tape and shipping problems. I hope this helps a bit.
982794
Depends on how you paid. Some sellers ask for cashier's checks, money orders, or accept personal checks. In each case, the item appears only in your Ebay account and on any invoice they send you, if they send one at all.\n\nSome sellers accept credit cards directly. In these cases, the line charge will show the total and the seller's business name, not the item.\n\nMost sellers go through PayPal and I feel far more comfortable doing business with them. (There are still caveats, for if you have a deadbeat seller Ebay and PayPal will only guarantee a small portion of your purchase price returned.) If paying through PayPal, the item appears on the PayPal invoice. Your Account overview will show the total for the transaction and to whom it was sent; clicking on the seller's name should bring up the invoice with the item description.
1054569
It should give you the whole total before you finalize the transaction.  Amazon is very reliable, we purchase from them all of the time.
673600
the post office has a special "printed matter" rate for books- i don't know if that applies to books sent overseas..its cheaper than the regular parcel post rate-- its slower but cheaper...
772078
Depending on the services you use. Normally give it two business days, but no longer than three. It cost more for next day service. Say you shipped it Thursday, it will get there early Monday.\n\nThere is usually a fee for them to deliver on the weekends.
764284
Costs involved in shipping exported products.
872337
Sometimes there will be items listed for a really low price, but the shipping will be 10x what it really costs to ship the item... People do this to avoid paying large listing and final value fees (as shipping costs are not factored into the equation for figuring out fees).\n\nIf it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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eBay doesn't get ANY of the shipping costs, so some people have found a way to make sure eBay gets as little as possible, by charging 2-3xs the cost of actual shipping for the item. They only have to pay eBay from the sale price (generally .99 or less) and a small cost for the category they placed the item in to sell. The rest is their money. I don't sell that way because eventually eBay may go under if enough people decide to work that scam. It is also rough on some customers who do not check the shipping costs before they bid. They end up with a HUGE surprise when they see the shipping and handling fees.\n\nk.m.
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I have lost several packages sent to my ebay buyers through USPS -- and all of them have delivery confirmation. One thing I found out is that delivery confirmation is useless for tracking lost packages. \n\nOne showed that I actually gave it to the post office on that date and time -- but did not show anything else after that. When I entered the tracking number it showed that I did sent it out but it never arrived to the customer. All you can do is to fill out a missing parcel form, but in my experience, I've never been able to find them again.\n\nMy ebay buyers are very good in that they don't blame it on me. But if you have insurance, then that can shield you.
325103
Your item is coming from Venezia, Italy probably by their version of Air Mail. Since the seller is only charging $6 to ship the item, I doubt he or she is using anything quick. International shipments can take up to 45 days to arrive. \n\nAlso, $7 bucks for Cavalli? If it’s real, you got a sweet deal, but I’m betting it isn’t.
884648
If the letter is going to a mil. base standard postage will do, as far as the package your local post offfice will help you.
797709
The USPS will just charge the person you sent it to .02, unless it is a company in which they might send it back.
1058418
Here is a complete listing of fees on ebay\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html\n\nBasically you pay\n\n1 - listing fees, whether your item sells or not\n\n$0.01 – $0.99 $0.20 \n$1.00 – $9.99 $0.35 \n$10.00 – $24.99 $0.60 \n$25.00 – $49.99 $1.20 \n$50.00 – $199.99 $2.40 \n$200.00 – $499.99 $3.60 \n$500.00 or more $4.80 \n\n2 - listing features, if added. Includes gallery, more than 1 picture, bold, subtitle, featured listing, auction for 10 days duration etc.\n\n3 - auction features, if added, such as Buy It Now, reserve auction\n\n4 - final value fees - only if your item sells.\n\nItem not sold No Fee \n$0.01 – $25.00 = 5.25% of the closing value \n$25.01 – $1,000.00 = 5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00) \nEqual to or Over $1,000.01 = 5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 ($29.25), plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)