HI all

Moving to Fixed price listings should help your DSR ratings too. As long as you offer Free Shipping.

I don't get my feathers ruffled too often about changes eBay makes or anything they do. We just kind of roll with the flow.

BUT (don't you love that word

We stopped running auctions probably 2 years ago. Fixed price only offering Free shipping. In February 2012 Seller development started calling me, telling me how big of a marketshare I was losing by not participating in the auctions. AND since eBay was running the free auctions why not give it a try. Do low start price. blah blah blah. You know the spill

So we did. Ran hundreds of $0.99 auctions with calculated shipping during the one week in February and the two week in March. I did it against my better judgement. But why not give it a whirl. Seller development was really pushing it. Rarely did anything bid over $0.99. So if it weighed 6 pounds going to California naturally the shipping was much greater than the item price. we do not inflate on Calculated shipping. And we refund if there is an overcharge on calculated shipping.

And you guessed it, the buyers dinged me repeatedly on the Shipping and handling charges for all those $0.99 auctions. My DSR's tanked. And we lose our TRS status May 20, 2012 for 30 days.

eBay's solution when I called and inquiried. "You should be very careful to protect your DSR ratings. And to fix this well, Sell more stuff".

My response, "Seller development called repeatedly encouraging me to participate. Use $0.99 start price with calculated shipping and you tell me to protect my DSR"

Moral of story,, Fixed price provides much better protection for your DSR's. Especially coupled with Free Shipping (or shipping included whichever way you look at it)

A buyer should not be able to ding shipping and handling charges when the buyer knows up front what the costs are before ever placing a bid. We found that there wasn't a single buyer that actually knew what it cost to ship a 6 pound package to them. They still thought it would ship for maybe $3.00 or $4.00. Cause that is what Amazon ships for.


Our policy, we no longer will be involved in the Auction format. Not until eBay makes changes.

My hat is off to those of you who use eBay's calculated shipping format and maintained your ratings and sanity. Kudos to you!

Okay off my soap box now

Judy Oglesby
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