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Looks like those sellers who continue to offer free shipping are going to be paying more. We just added another 2.00 to all our shipping as we no longer cater to the buyer. If they don’t want to pay for shipping they are free to buy somewhere else as we no longer care.
I can completely understand and I’m with you. Sites like Etsy, who push push push for you to offer free shipping–or NOW if you don’t penalize you by charging fees that include what you’ve paid for shipping need to have their a**es kicked.
Anybody want to bet that now Ebay will begin showing Sellers items only on the opposite coast so that they can increase their fees as much as possible. On a 4 ounce package that is a 16.17% increase in the cost of shipping which means that Ebay just recognized a nice revenue increase on the smaller packages of up to 16.17%. So what used to cost me $0.27 Ebay fee for shipping a 4 ounce item will now cost me $0.31 if it is going to zone 8 or 9 which is the opposite side of the country. Those in middle America will not feel this increase like the rest of us will, but may also suffer lower sales as Ebay changes the algorithm to show those items with the longest shipping distance first as they have been doing everything in their power to show additional revenue in any way possible.
Oh boy, another 10% hike on domestic mail so we can coddle red China even more!