There is going to be three different price tiers for items that weigh below 3 ounces, that being 3 ounces at 91 cents, 2 ounces at 71 cents, and 1 ounce at 51 cents. Firstly, it cannot weigh more than 3 ounces. When you ship out an item using an ebay standard envelope with tracking, you need to make sure the envelope fits the size and weight requirements. I’ve seen the way some of you package items. Standard envelope shipping does not come without limitations, though, and you can’t just try to say “oh, but its in an envelope” when you ship out a funko pop that you managed to finagle into an envelope. Without getting into the details of inflation and price creep, I just want to make it very clear that shipping items in a standard envelope with tracking is going to cost you a fraction that it would if you were to use the same exact packaging and slap a first-class label on it. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see $5 min shipping rates by the end of the decade, it would put the US on par with a lot of the world when it comes to small domestic shipments, although I would bet that they’re going to continue to increase too. You can get it for less than $3 in limited circumstances, but for the most part and certainly going forward, the cost of shipping small parcels is only going to get more and more expensive. This was fine 15 years ago when the first class mail prices were, in some cases, less than half what they are today, but as of 2021, the lowest you’re going to expect to pay on any first-class tracked shipment is going to be around $3. The world of online sales really all revolves around seller’s uploading tracking numbers, sending buyer’s tracking numbers, and the platform using whatever tracking number you provided to verify that the item actually was sent/received. It’s that way on any online platform I can think of, amazon, mercari, etsy, etc… and if you ship things without tracking, you are probably going to both lose a lot of money from customers magically not getting the packages and get kicked off the platform for not having high enough delivered package metrics. What is ebay standard envelope shipping?įor as long as I’ve been a seller on eBay, you had to have tracking on your shipment. This is going to be kind of an in-depth video on a very narrow topic, so I will include timestamps for each part in the description below. EBay recently announced that they were going to let sellers ship sports or trading cards in a standard sized envelope and that they would facilitate tracking if you purchased the shipping through, this announcement didn’t come without suspicious sellers doubting that it could be done, so for this video, I will be talking about the program, explaining how it can be used and my predictions for how it will impact the future of ebay, and finally share my experience auctioning off about 2 dozen low value cards (and you’ll see why they have to be low-value in a minute) and they show you the process I use to make sure the cards arrive safely.
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