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bucolic_frolic

(47,584 posts) Mon Nov 29, 2021, 11:16 PM Nov 2021

eBay allows listings with the 53 cent postcard rate

I think it's allowed in all categories, but when you go to ship items it will only print 53 cent labels in the postcard, coins categories. So if you list a paper item in collectibles or memorabilia, you get stuck with full first class rate.

eBay is absolutely broken. They don't have things well thought out. It's just one glitch after another.

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eBay allows listings with the 53 cent postcard rate (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 OP

I haven't been an active seller for a long time. Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #1

I'm confused also KS Toronado Nov 2021 #2

include the price of postage in the selling price bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #3

So, to be clear.... Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #4

Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)

1. I haven't been an active seller for a long time.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 11:28 PM

Nov 2021

Why do you have to go through that? Can't you include the price of postage in the selling price and just say "free postage"?

Also....are you saying that nothing can be mailed "media mail"?

Help me understand this.

KS Toronado

(19,703 posts)

2. I'm confused also

Reply to Grasswire2 (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 02:02 AM

Nov 2021

bucolic_frolic

(47,584 posts)

3. include the price of postage in the selling price

Reply to Grasswire2 (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 08:01 AM

Nov 2021

Will anyone bid?

Media mail is almost as much as first class, at least in the lower weight classes.

If an item is ineligible for a shipping category it should be excluded. It' s like a teaser rate.

Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)

4. So, to be clear....

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 12:45 PM

Nov 2021

...if you sell a postcard, you eat the postage?

Is that what you mean?

I was a dealer in vintage sheet music. That may be sent via media mail, but the cardboard stiffener and envelope weigh far more than the music itself. First class postage would be prohibitive.

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