My 3 current pet peeves on buying & selling on ebay which should be unnecessary in a perfect ebay world.
(1) Having to send emails to ask if a seller does "combined shipping".
-especially if they sell small items in groups (like stamps, sportscards, coins)
-I can't understand why veteran sellers don't write this into their ebay descriptions to save from having to answer the combined shipping query. I know I've had to ask the same seller more than once during the course of a few months just to make sure combined shipping is offered.
(2) Having to ask sellers if they would sell their (less than $5 item) without having to go through the Global Shipping Program.
(3) Having to tell buyers NOT TO PAY for their purchases until they are finished bidding, especially when they expect to save through combined shipping. I guess many buyers don't know that every time a payment is received, the recipient must pay a fee of 30 cents where the payer doesn't need to pay any extras.
This last point is the main reason I don't like to offer Free Shipping in my sales.
I experimented a few times with offering free shippng for lower priced items (ie stamps).
Every so often a buyer would buy 5 items with free shipping @ $1 each & pay for each transaction separately.
The extra 30 cents that Paypal assessed me for each transaction means that my fee to Paypal was about 35% & my fee to ebay was less than 10%.
