Flat rate shipping is not an exact science, however, the best way to estimate your shipping costs is to go to USPS and put in approx. weight and then type in a zip code farthest away from you. You can then estimate regular mail, priority, etc.
Since eBay is actively blocking everybody's auctions (See full story http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2007/4/1176346322.html )from being viewed at their own descretion under their supposed proactive fraud reduction, most tools that are currently available for assisting with sales become useless. Keyword searches that pull-up your auctions one minute, don't show any results for the same products seconds later.
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Flat rate shipping is not an exact science, however, the best way to estimate your shipping costs is to go to USPS and put in approx. weight and then type in a zip code farthest away from you. You can then estimate regular mail, priority, etc.
Thank you so much for your help - every place is far away from here - I've been using our mail machine but the difference in what it wants to charge and what ebay wants to charge is considerabley different. The ebay shipping is more - I guess I'll eventually figure this out - thank you again for your time - Dawn
Make sure the shipping service matches. For example, if you check usps for first class mail, and you have your default on eBay as UPS or Priority, it's going to be more.
Perhaps it is the items you are selling.
Many people like to try footwear on before they purchase, maybe that will go against you.
Many people like to try footwear on before they purchase, maybe that will go against you.
How do you get Sellathon free with Auctiva? I think when I first joined Auctiva I had it for a trial period.
I may have missed something here
I may have missed something here
Dear Shoes;
I would recommend getting off any negativity thinking or attitude about ebay and looking at them like the kind of venue they have become. They are self serving because it is their business to do this for themselves. They are not going to stop doing that. Learn to do what is necessary to work around any obstacles that are in the way of making money on there. Welcome to the club of saavy Ebay users that have had to do the same thing to make a few extra bucks now. There are always alternatives. In a sense aren't we self serving wanting to make as much as we can. In a way it is war and your learn to fight to win for yourself. Just don't go negative in the process, since it requires your proactivity to win.
I would recommend getting off any negativity thinking or attitude about ebay and looking at them like the kind of venue they have become. They are self serving because it is their business to do this for themselves. They are not going to stop doing that. Learn to do what is necessary to work around any obstacles that are in the way of making money on there. Welcome to the club of saavy Ebay users that have had to do the same thing to make a few extra bucks now. There are always alternatives. In a sense aren't we self serving wanting to make as much as we can. In a way it is war and your learn to fight to win for yourself. Just don't go negative in the process, since it requires your proactivity to win.
Wow I cannot believe I am still getting messages way after a month after I posted this. That is my problem I am not seeing how to get around the ebay thing but maybe eventually I will. Either way I will keep panning for gold (hopefully one of these day I will get the real thing).
shoes
shoes
Welcome to the Ebay Gold Panners Society of America. EGPSofA for short. An exclusive club of 49er type diehards that never give up as long as they made a dime profit last month. Amazing that Ebay has actually taken a notion to join our society etal so that they can make a dime too, since they were the cause of our founding in the first place. 
You don't get Sellathon free other than a free 30 day free trial. You will continue to get a counter for free but not the full stats unless you pay.