Advice from canadian sellers about free shipping
Summary: kittenvintage inquires about strategies for offering free shipping while also providing worldwide shipping, noting differences in shipping costs between regions. ricarmic shares their approach of targeting US buyers and offering free shipping to the US and Canada while charging extra for other destinations. recped contends that ricarmic’s strategy may not be applicable if the products differ in size and weight. femmefan1946 clarifies that even as a stamp dealer, larger items are shipped using calculated shipping. The discussion was eventually closed by kh-phdan due to its age, and dee_doo expresses curiosity about free shipping practices by other sellers.
Hi, I was wondering how can i offer free shipping if i also offer worldwide shipping?
For some items i can just add it on to the price. For items that are more expensive i'd like for the packages to be tracked and the prices for a tracked package to the US is much cheaper than the same package to Australia.
What do most canadian sellers do here? Also because Canadian shipping is quite expensive.
Is better to offer free shipping on items i am only shipping to canada and the US?
Also i was wondering if offering free shipping possibly gets your listings more seen really?
Thanks for any info! 
dee_doo
·11 months agoI'm still wondering how can Rarewares offers free shipping from UK and sells an item $5....
kh-phdan
·1 year agoHello Everyone,
Due to the age of the thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue discussing this topic.
Thanks for your understanding!
ricarmic
·9 years agoI've been "free shipping" since it was originally available.
I am very firm in my belief that it increases visibility.
Note that I sell on .COM, I target US buyers and I use flat rate shipping for everything, right up to the size of Bankers boxes.
Because I'm selling on .COM, and I'm offering free shipping to the USA, it also means it is no problem to offer free shipping to Canada. I charge extra for everywhere else, the "international" amount covers the extra postage and allotments for the "cookie jar insurance" etc.
(Just to be clear you can separate your shipping categories 3 ways or more if you like: to "domestic" whether that be Canada or USA, then separate out Canada or USA and you can separate other countries or leave the rest as worldwide*)
*In my world:
Domestic = USA
Canada is separated out
China and Brazil are separated out (tracked shipping is forced on them)
"Worldwide" covers the rest (you put the specialized ones before the worldwide)
recped
·9 years agoI've been "free shipping" since it was originally available.
You are selling stamps which can be sent in a standard envelope (lettermail), unless the OP is selling similar items what you are doing is not only irrelevant it's also misleading for the OP.
femmefan1946
·1 year ago@recped
We stamp dealers also sell bulk lots.
And I recently sent a 1.789 kilo book to the Netherlands. (Official Stamps of the Princely Indian Courts. Stupefyingly detailed.)
More important, while Free Shipping is workable, with very valuable stamps it is well worthwhile to use Expedited or even Priority mailing and Calculated Shipping.
All my dotCA listings here are bulky lots which use Calculated Shipping.
I didn't fall out of the postal van yesterday.
pjcdn2005
·1 year agoThread from 2017.