Well, here I thought all along that Kentucky was served by the USPS. For a 2-ounce rigid envelope - such as a bubble mailer up to a 3/4" x 6-1/8" x 11-1/2" - it charges 75¢ according to its website postage calculator.
I just mailed 2 that weighed 1.00 ounce (2 ounce rate) and they cost $1.18 each. You forgot to add for a nonstandard envelope. BTW they were 8x5x0.25. And Speedy, you are not permitted to charge for gas and trips to the post office.
Says who ? You can charge for anything you want as long as you are up front about it. I'll never understand why people get upset about shipping charges. If a person doesn't like the listed shipping charges then don't bid - simple. But just for giggles - if a guy offers to sell a coin for $15 with free shipping - or if he offers to sell the very same coin for $3 with $12 shipping - what makes the difference ? The coin still cost $15.
eBay says. Somewhere in here there is a link to a tutorial that explains it in more detail, and, of coarse, I cannot find it now. However, here is an example they give that closely matches the above:
Found it! At the link http://pages.ebay.com/help/tutorial/feecirctutorial/intro.html The answer to question #4: Notice that gas, printing and time are specifically EXCLUDED.
Fair enough rlm, I used a poor example. Should have used higher numbers. But the point I am making is that the total cost is the total cost, that's all. It's the same thing as a buyer's fee at an auction house. What you pay for the coin is the total - your bid plus the fee and then add the shipping to that as well. The total number is what matters, not what the individual parts of the total are.
That I completely agree with. My point was that what most people consider to be part of shipping is against eBay's rules - even Speedy's numbers. However, having said that, getting eBay to enforce the rules to their specifications as above is another matter. From my experience, there is no way they would act on $10 to ship a Lincoln even first class. Your $12 is kind of marginal. They might or might not.
Young lady, I'm afraid you are being overly sensitive. I assure you that I hold no animus toward you, and I'm truly sorry that you mis-construed my comments as a personal attack. I've been selling on EBay for longer than this forum has existed. I calculate all my postage costs on the official government website of the USPS. If you click on the link I posted previously, you will find that an envelope such as I described can travel first class to anywhere under the US flag for three-quarters of one dollar, and absolutely no more. Explore the USPS site, and learn that the non-standard envelope fee never exceeds 17¢. I've mailed 1-5 single coins in 2x2s in an ordinary small-size bubble mailer with nothing extra in the envelope many, many times with no problems. I agree with Doug that if you object to the shipping charges, don't bid, and otherwise just reduce your maximum bid for the item by the amount of S/H; but when it is obviously jacked up to cover other expenses or avoid paying EBay's true final value fees, I resent it. At any rate, since you feel I'm picking on you, I'm putting you on my "ignore" list. That way I won't inadvertently reply to one of your posts, since I won't see it. BTW, my daughter is older than you, so please don't take the "young lady" reference as an insult.
my goodness.. I usally charge $2.50/ $2.75 and 50 to 75 cents combined shipping for extra auctions over a 3 day peroid. Is that too much? too little? just right? did you bother to look? I did it because I seen others doing it and ask why..on their advice which sounded right to me.. I did it.. see.... others End time Shipping costs: US $12.00 End time: Shipping costs: US $18.00 End time: Shipping costs: US $15.00 Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service End time: Shipping costs: US $15.00 Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service End time: Shipping costs: US $10.00 Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service Service to United States Ships to: Worldwide Quantity: 5 available INTERNATIONAL SHIPMENTS ADD ADDITIONAL $20 ABOVE REGULAR SHIPPING COSTS now, I am so very sorry.. if I could change it, I sure would.. (I can't get in to change it now)I took some advice.. seem's.. it might have been mistake. it isn't my first and won't be my last im sure.. but it is something I will learn from. Everyone.. I am so sorry.. please forgive me for this wrong I have done.
alrighty guys---I think we could go back to talking about the coin and not the shipping. She didn't come here and ask what we thought about her charging shipping cost and if I wouldn't have posted the link ya'll might have never seen it...I'm sorry I did that. This is a rare find and we should be glad that she came and showed us photos. Some of the big time ebayers will charge ALOT more than $10 for shipping when they are mailing a rare coin and I would have been one of the people who would have told Cho Cho to put a higher ammount. Lets get back to the topic at hand... Speedy