I usually pay about $5.57 to ship a comic. The mailers cost me about .57 cents each plus bag and board at .20 cents. Bringing my cost to $6.24 to ship a book. eBay gives a discount to sellers on shipping most of the time. That discount is what covers those costs. I won’t eat into those costs.
I charge a flat $6.50 for a single comic. Sending from the east coast, 10oz costs me $6.43 in postage to CA, plus the gemini and bag/board. $5.89 to central US. East coast a little over $5. In the end it almost evens out for me.
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Same. I do $6.50 for a single book. Ground advantage + a mailer + bag and board rarely now costs less than $6.50.
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It’s all lumped together. Whether you discount the book or you discount the shipping…it doesn’t matter.
That’s why I just offer a flat $4.99 shipping for most of my listings. I may be undercutting myself $1, except I may price the book $1 higher and get it back anyway. Or I’m $1 under all my competitors and I sell it not having to deal with best offer BS.
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I saw Ebay was hit with a DDOS attack the other day, might be still happening…
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That makes sense. Looks like they are still having issues. Must have been what caused it.
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Perhaps that’s why the app was acting up when I tried to pay for an item…
Has anyone else been experiencing an issue with their notifications for watched items? When the 15 minute notification comes up, I’ll select the reminder for either 1 or 2 minutes prior to the item ending only for it not to notify me again…This has been going on for a few weeks and did a search and tried the suggestion but no change…eBay has been no help…
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Had one of those “can you take pictures of the comic in multiple positions from different angles people”. I did. They noticed something I hadn’t noticed. Thought that was gonna be the end of it. They offered to buy the books at a 5% off combo. I was like hell yeah. $50 sale for two books I paid $1.25 each for.
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Not an Ebay issue, but I did sell this shirt I had for $90. I might need to dip into the clothing business. lol
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My daughter loves hitting up the vintage recycled used clothing stores and the amount of 80s and 90s shirts I use to own going for some mad money now… ClothesHeatingUp.net @Anthony ? haha…
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Yeah I’m just now looking into all that stuff. More money to be had. lol
Don’t old concert tees go for wild money?
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Yeah, band shirts and such tend to go for pretty good money pending the band.
There is an X-Force t-shirt likely from launch of the title that sells for big money, too.
I may need to break out my Dave Matthew’s Band Tie Dye from the 1999 tour….been sitting in a plastic tote, never worn or washed.
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I don’t know the DMB market, but in general, I see vintage tie dyes do really well because they were often among the most expensive tour merch when new.
Here’s an interesting one, first time I’ve seen this. I preorder a ratio variant with a 7/15 release date. Seller marks the item as shipped with an ETA of June 10. You can read about the issue in the below screenshots. I feel like this is a scam, but at the least, a very reckless way of going about doing presales. The ebay messaging is AI, not live. What do you guys think?
That’s a new one for me. Why would you mark as shipped something that’s not even been released yet? And basically say oh yeah I don’t have it but eBay lets me do what I want so you want a refund or not? Considering the book doesn’t even release until 5 days after the 30 day claim period is up I’d imagine eBay would side with you since clearly the seller won’t even have the item in hand but the whole situation is just bad business if not a scam.
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I would definitely look at their history to see if this is a pattern or what kind of feedback they have. The fact he’s responding with broken English doesn’t give me confidence either.
But smells scammy to me.
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