If you list your albums on
ebay with high shipping costs, good luck. Most buyers, even the ones who will pay a good price for an item, do not want to also have to pay for expensive shipping. This is one reason
ebay has pushed sellers to try to sell with no shipping costs or very low shipping costs.
Often, it's more attractive for buyers to see a simple $9.99 shipping cost or something similarly low. This may prove to be a factor that encourages them to bid on an item when they wouldn't bid on another similar item with higher shipping. I've passed over hundreds of albums and other items I normally would have bid on simply because the seller was showing a very high shipping cost. It's the most obvious negative factor on many listings on
ebay.
You can list the albums at a 'Buy it Now' price that covers most of your shipping cost. But you may also have to eat some of that cost. Trying to make the very last penny possible on
ebay items often kills sales badly. Remember that it's an auction and you do not have any guarantee it will sell at a high price -- or even that you'll make any money at all on an item.
Nearly all the stamp-related items I receive from
ebay sellers, including albums, binders, pages of stamps, and so on, come via the postal service. Their Express Mail boxes have standard prices for whatever you can fit inside them. That allows you to test-fit the items before you list the shipping on your listing. But, as I said, it may very well be better in attracting bidders NOT to ask the buyer to pay that price -- or all of it, anyway.
Posted 02/17/2019 7:14 pm
