Anything which is bulky or heavy needs to use Parcel Rates and should be kept on dotCA
Remember that your customer sees the price in the currency of the site he is Searching on, so if he is Searching on dotCOM he will see your offerings because you ship to the USA and he will see them in US dollars.
The reason you can't charge more than $6USD to ship is that dotCOM has the bloody stupid shipping cap on Media.
The USA has a low and slow Media Rate for books*, CDs , DVDs etc.
This applies only to Flat Rate.
American -based sellers can use Calculated Shipping, which is not available to Canadian sellers.
So?
Bite the bullet.
List on dotCA, in Canadian dollars.
Use Calculated Shipping to give your buyer the price of shipping to her doorstep OR use Flat Rate shipping OR use Free Shipping (which means including the cost of shipping in the asking price of the item).
Or mix it up.
Use a Flat Rate of $6 on dotCOM listings, then increase the asking price of your magazines by the difference.
Which is cheapest?
A $5 zine with $10 shipping?
A $10 zine with $5 shipping?
A $15 zine with Free Shipping?
And remember that if you use Free Shipping on domestic shipping that all your Shipping FVF will be based on that -- even if you charge $25 to ship to Australia there will be no shipping FVF.
*But not for magazines or anything that includes advertisements, including catalogues and programmes.
