DeanW
has rocks in the head
Member since December 2007
Posts: 721
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Post by DeanW on Feb 11, 2008 13:18:08 GMT -5
I've been selling on ebay, rocks and other collectible items. I used to ship small items postal, and anything over about 2 pounds went UPS. Then the postal service changed their rates, and added FRB (and I moved). All of a sudden it became much simpler and cheaper to only offer postal priority, with automatic "upgrade" to flat-rate; which is what I do know. My only "problem" is that I live on a high-traffic street and work an odd schedule so just leaving the boxes out to be picked up does not work. I only trust personally dropping them off at a post office - which means I gotta burn some extra gas to do so, and can only do so on my own schedule. I mention this is my ads now, and I charge $1 extra for domestic deliveries to help cover my gas expense.
Even parcel post does not really help much, with priority and online-postage purchase I get free delivery confirmation which costs extra on parcel post. Occasionally I sell a book or other "media" and will use media rate, which is still pretty inexpensive but has the caveat that the post office can open and inspect any media-rate package to verify it qualifies.
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Simon
spending too much on rocks
Member since March 2009
Posts: 352
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Post by Simon on Mar 19, 2008 19:29:56 GMT -5
I order a lot from people on ebay, it comes to something when the rocks I buy are cheaper including shipping than buying in the UK.
I've only had one bad experience.
FRB are brilliant as far as I'm concerned.
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RedwoodRocks
freely admits to licking rocks
Member since March 2003
Posts: 762
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Post by RedwoodRocks on Mar 28, 2008 15:16:53 GMT -5
Opinions are cheap, so here are mine:
FRB - Rocks! Free boxes, known price, no looking up UPS, USPS, FedEx rates. I was mostly selling and buying in lots that using the FRB made good economic sense. Not having to look up shipping rates when selling saves time.
Photos - Prefer multiple good quality photos. I won't bid on what I can't see (crappy photo's). I haven't sold on Ebay for awhile, but Ebay used to charge extra for extra photo's. I wonder how an outfit like Auctiva, which lets you post bigger and multiple photos for free (I think), how do these folks make money?
Shipping and Handling charges. If I can't figure out the S&H, I don't bid. Otherwise, I work the S&H into the final total price that I am willing to pay.
Less desirable items posted on Ebay. Yes, I skip over many items when browsing for rocks, but I also keep a list of favorite sellers and favorite searches. I mostly browse at work, like now, I should be documenting the process for a new program I wrote LOL.
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49er
freely admits to licking rocks
Member since February 2008
Posts: 753
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Post by 49er on Apr 16, 2008 0:21:26 GMT -5
Yea, I will join you on your soap box. I haven't purchased any rocks on ebay for those same reasons. Another grip is using metric measurements on slabs. What gives, we use the decimal system the last time I checked. Can not stand someone selling a slab where one side is thicker than the other (taper slab). That is just plain junk to me.
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