PrincessMommy Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) I'm selling stuff via Ebay. It's been a while since I've sold and it has changed a bit. I chose for it to calculate actual shipping prices. This is very a heavy item and it estimated it might be between $25-50 for shipping. Well, the auction just finished and it sold (yay!). I go to try and calculate shipping and I see my auction says: "$9.85 Expedited Shipping" What the what??!! I just checked my other item that is still up for sale and it says the same thing! Then, I tried check what it would say if I sent an invoice to the seller and it calculated shipping at $10.95??? What is going on? I plan to honor what the auction said since I obviously screwed it up somehow. But I also don't want it to look like a bait-and-switch since it states on the auction $9.95 but the invoice will say $10.95 I hate to over-charge for shipping but this is worse! Ugh, I really wanted to avoid Ebay, but wasn't having any luck locally. Rant off. Edited April 7, 2017 by PrincessMommy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I don't let eBay estimate the shipping. I do it manually, myself. It's a bit of a pain but then it is accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 I don't let eBay estimate the shipping. I do it manually, myself. It's a bit of a pain but then it is accurate. What you're saying is that when I chose "Calculate actual shipping price" it eBay automatically calculated for Priority expedited shipping for me? I thought that choice meant that I could do it manually. Clearly, I was wrong. Ugh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I am also selling on Ebay and a whole bunch of my items are listed as fast and free shipping and I have no idea how that is enabled. I do offer free shipping but I did not enable fast and free. I haven't figured this out yet. I feel ya! I am really sorry about the loss that your shipping issue has caused. :( -Rebecca 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Is the object on the small side? If so, it might fit into a priority mail fixed rate box. I love those. Basically you fill them as full as you want, and they cost a specific amount to ship regardless of the weight. They are fantastic for college care packages. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 Is the object on the small side? If so, it might fit into a priority mail fixed rate box. I love those. Basically you fill them as full as you want, and they cost a specific amount to ship regardless of the weight. They are fantastic for college care packages. one is and I think it will be okay in one of those boxes. That means I'll only chew about $8-10. The other is big. I'm mailing it off today, so I'll see if it will fit in one of the larger boxes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 I am also selling on Ebay and a whole bunch of my items are listed as fast and free shipping and I have no idea how that is enabled. I do offer free shipping but I did not enable fast and free. I haven't figured this out yet. I feel ya! I am really sorry about the loss that your shipping issue has caused. :( -Rebecca Oh dear. What a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Is the object on the small side? If so, it might fit into a priority mail fixed rate box. I love those. Basically you fill them as full as you want, and they cost a specific amount to ship regardless of the weight. They are fantastic for college care packages. they're even better when shipping internationally. dd was in south america -I couldn't have affording sending her stuff without it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 As it turns out both were too big for the fixed rate boxes. Fortunately, it wasn't as expensive as I thought it might be to send it priority. I still had to chew some money but they were both less than $10 over what the buyer had paid for shipping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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