Buyers hate paying for shipping? Yeah, on this site but I go buy something online I don't expect "free shipping" unless I buy x amount. Yeah, I get incorporating shipping costs and eBlob/PayPlop fees into the list price. I'm just saying why do we have to basically LIE?
Think about it.
As far as calculating shipping within Bananada, I can't be bothered. You have regional vs. national yet eBlech's pulldown menu does not have that.
To me, Bananada is a dead loss with less than the population of California to appeal to across five time zones (or do we count Newfieland and Labradoodle as another 1/2). It's easier to list here on .ca and have shipping to the ten times greater population of the US know what the cost is. The Great White North is a total afterthought. Not "into" eBlob at all. Just some guy offloading clutter. only list when it's free. If it sells over the next 20 years, fine. If not, I toss into English Bay and let the enviroweenies whine at my funeral.
Anyway, my point is I do mess around with totals but, let's put it this way, amazon.ca have it down pat. Take your cut. Give a shipping credit back. Use that as a guide to send item insured or uninsured depending on total and your risk tolerance. They act as middleperson and take credit cards without taking an almost three- to four-percent cut like PayPuke.
That is the model, but what can ya do? eBlip has a monopoly reallon the online selling crap service here in North America unlike, say, Japan where Yahoo! Auctions won out and eBad's model flopped supremely because, let's face facts, there are HUGE flaws in the way the financial model operates here.
