(08-02-2012, 08:35 AM)kinarism Wrote: Adding ebay fees to shipping is against ebay policy...and that is one policy I agree with.
Assuming you are in the US, 40c for bubble mailer is outrageous for someone who is a TRS. You should be able to get that down to about 10c by buying ~200 at a time online. Also, ebay/paypal shipping is 1.64 for a 3oz bubblemailer + dc (not 2.80).
That drops your actual cost to 3.33 - .30 - 1.16 = 1.87
I buy the mailers 10 at a time, for $4 at WalMart ... my 450 rating is over a handful of years, so I don't do it often enough to justify buying supplies in that much quantity.
Plus, I don't have a home computer to do the eBay/PayPal shipping, so I manually take it to the post office — hence the difference in price.
The purpose of the breakdown was to illustrate that I don't make any money on shipping, and neither should any other honest seller.
Charging $5 to ship a card is ridiculous, especially in a PWE.