Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

The smallest flat rate box through USPS is now $9.45. Medium is $16.10 and they go up quickly from there.

It's near impossible to ship anything other than a letter within the US now for under $10 without some type of discounted rate. It hasn't happened yet, but the rate on the regular postage stamp is expected to go to 95 cents later this year (it's 78 cents now).

As an ebay seller, I offer an instant 25% discount on entire purchase to anyone who buys multiple items from my store in one transaction because I can almost always ship 2 items together for nearly the same price as 1. It's almost impossible to make any profit shipping one item at a time any more.
 
Is that a setting thing to do the discount? I know how to do that for a listing with multiples of that item, but hadn't looked into doing it across my entire inventory.
 
Reno said:
The smallest flat rate box through USPS is now $9.45. Medium is $16.10 and they go up quickly from there.

It's near impossible to ship anything other than a letter within the US now for under $10 without some type of discounted rate. It hasn't happened yet, but the rate on the regular postage stamp is expected to go to 95 cents later this year (it's 78 cents now).

As an ebay seller, I offer an instant 25% discount on entire purchase to anyone who buys multiple items from my store in one transaction because I can almost always ship 2 items together for nearly the same price as 1. It's almost impossible to make any profit shipping one item at a time any more.
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Fuckin' Biden, I guess.
 
Ru1977 said:
Is that a setting thing to do the discount? I know how to do that for a listing with multiples of that item, but hadn't looked into doing it across my entire inventory.
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Yes, it is if you have an ebay store. It's under Marketing/Promotions. You can actually choose specific items from your inventory so that you could exclude someone buying a $400 item and a $10 item together to get the discount, for example. I just apply it to everything.
 
Selling a recent MIB Marvel Legend for retail.

Guy asks if he can have a discount because it would be a 4-Hour round trip for him.

People like this have bugged me for a while so I finally asked why he's even looking at listings that far away, and he said no one near him has it listed.

The funny thing is you can get it on Amazon or the EB website at the same price right now. It's not a rare figure. It's just something I got an extra of because of the paint lottery and I forgot about it so I missed the return window.

But I don't want to tell him it's in stock cuz I'm not doing the work for him so I just told him the price was the price.

And then he complained that it was a 4-Hour round trip. And I finally, finally got to do the Peter Parker: I missed the part where that's my problem.
 
The shipping thing is what it is. It's completely unsustainable for the USPS to keep doing what it's supposed to do without an increase in postage, especially when no one sends paper mail anymore but all of their routes are setup to still deliver it because that's what it was created for. I know the amounts seem high, but check out some other countries' rates. UPS tried to go it alone last year by no longer handing off so-called "last mile" delivery to the USPS and just doing it themselves, but eventually found it was simply not cost-effective for them. It's not cost-effective for anyone, but only one of the delivery companies was mandated by the Constitution to do it anyways.
 
cmoney said:
The shipping thing is what it is. It's completely unsustainable for the USPS to keep doing what it's supposed to do without an increase in postage, especially when no one sends paper mail anymore but all of their routes are setup to still deliver it because that's what it was created for. I know the amounts seem high, but check out some other countries' rates. UPS tried to go it alone last year by no longer handing off so-called "last mile" delivery to the USPS and just doing it themselves, but eventually found it was simply not cost-effective for them. It's not cost-effective for anyone, but only one of the delivery companies was mandated by the Constitution to do it anyways.
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What baffles me in Canada is we have flat rate options, but also I just assume if you're a toy collector you should be pretty familiar with what shipping is going to cost from the various options available to you. Surely you must ship.

And yet anytime I quote shipping, which at this point I have down to the cent with all taxes and extras accounted for, people will balk and act like we are still on $0.10 stamps. Meanwhile I'm over here happily paying 20-30 bucks extra in shipping because I don't have to run around hunting for the thing. Cost benefit right.
 
A random person on Ebay messaged today asking if I make customs and if I could make a custom of a random AI-generated image he created.

None of my listings are customs (at the moment or recently) so like... WTF?
 
Ru1977 said:
The only customs I make are poops vaguely in the shape of letters, but I'm willing to part with some for the right price.
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I'm afraid that, since they're out of their original packaging, they won't go for quite as much. But that one where you made the umlaut out of corn could still go for a pretty penny- that was impressive, especially since you hadn't eaten corn all week!
 
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