Hi,
Another suggestion of mine, some may like it, others may hate it, yes there may be ways to sort search results, but I think it'd be a good tool to be available to buyers.
I would like to see on eBay.com and all associated sites, a mechanism to limit searches to items within a specific range of shipping charges. If someone indicates they're only willing to pay a specific range (via "Show items priced from"), they expect shipping charges to be that within roughly 10-25% of the pricing they mentioned via that search option ($250 shipping on $1000 item isn't totally unreasonable with the right item, nor is $25 on $100, or $10 on $50 etc). The budget people have in mind is for the total bottom line, not just the item cost.
There are many, MANY sellers who list auctions that fraudulently claim that shipping charges are exactly the full retail cost plus shipping of that item new, thus if the auction ends and they don't get the amount they "wanted" out of the auction, they secured the cost through the alleged shipping charges and proceed to pocket those charges with what they got through the auction as being profit, making it appear to those who partook in the auction that they were getting a deal.
Another situation with many sellers is those who misenter information about shipping like entering into the shipping details clothing measured fully spread out, rather than wrapped up and packaged, causing shipping charges to become amplified due to odd/awkwardly shaped items provisions, this would permit buyers to eliminate those cases and thus having an effect to encourage sellers to measure and package correctly.
This option would also enable people to yes, filter out GSP charges, but not as a sole focus of this feature, it wouldn't be a checkbox to eliminate the GSP from search result, but any and all Import charges must be included in the bottom line calculation to determine whether to include or eliminate it as per this feature suggestion.
There are instances where people have a set budget and at the end of the day the item cost isn't what they're looking for but the total cost of purchase — what will show up on their paypal or credit card invoice. If you go to a physical store and see the price tag, you can take an average guess what that item will cost you with tax, but with eBay this has become difficult as shipping charges wildly differ and are very inconsistent even with items from the same rough location. There needs to be a technological means for setting a range for that budget for again, the bottom line.
The difficulty overall is that people have to be practically at checkout to determine what their full charges will be and be at the stage immediately before committing to buy to see what they will owe — the bottom line — there is no clean way to otherwise see this bottom line or to search the site for this bottom line, not just a cost of the item itself.
Inversely, perhaps someone is looking for a higher shipping to ensure that the item arrives safely and correctly, and should as well be able to dictate they want that available rather than an economy shipping package without having to comb through many cumbersomely expensive items through current sorting mechanisms.
The eBay site software is run on computers, computers should be capable of calculating to some precision what shipping charges will be for items and permitting eliminating based on that — eBay needs to bring back the enjoyment of going from item to item in search results and checking out the item, and make the shipping charges less of a concern by again, permitting people to eliminate items with certain shipping charges just like the "Show items priced from" advanced search option.
I just thought I'd post this suggestion.
To Moderators: Please do not merge this thread into the GSP thread, this is not soley a GSP issue despite this suggestion having GSP impact — this is an issue with regular shipping charges as well.
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