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<p>[QUOTE="Sholom, post: 3433151, member: 17753"]When selling on eBat you also need to figure how these things from the buyer's point of view. A buyer who first looks at your listing wasn't getting 9 raw Buffalo's at one cent, he was paying $4.36. (Further, I'm thinking that you could have shipped 9 nickels at $1.50 or so cost to you).</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, the Mercury dime you sold. It sold for $1.10 (slightly below melt value) but to a bidder (who wasn't combining purchases) it cost $5.45. A dime weighs almost nothing -- surely you could have sent that regular first class mail at under one ounce, no?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you are combing items with free shipping, that seems to be a strategy error that perhaps you can avoid in the future? Because, as you noted, after a purchaser won the first item, now he's bidding against folks who didn't win the first item, and those other folks have to bake your $4.35 postage into their bids. (I hope his makes sense).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sholom, post: 3433151, member: 17753"]When selling on eBat you also need to figure how these things from the buyer's point of view. A buyer who first looks at your listing wasn't getting 9 raw Buffalo's at one cent, he was paying $4.36. (Further, I'm thinking that you could have shipped 9 nickels at $1.50 or so cost to you). Similarly, the Mercury dime you sold. It sold for $1.10 (slightly below melt value) but to a bidder (who wasn't combining purchases) it cost $5.45. A dime weighs almost nothing -- surely you could have sent that regular first class mail at under one ounce, no? Now, if you are combing items with free shipping, that seems to be a strategy error that perhaps you can avoid in the future? Because, as you noted, after a purchaser won the first item, now he's bidding against folks who didn't win the first item, and those other folks have to bake your $4.35 postage into their bids. (I hope his makes sense).[/QUOTE]
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