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I do not drink from TRS cup. I feel the whole thing is a carrot and donkey set-up, and, we are not the carrot.
Correct me if I am wrong, but, to get the TRS discount to the USA you would need to upload tracking, within one day, for 90% of shipments? For me, the move from small packet to tracking would cost my customers an extra $6-$9 per parcel. Without the benefit of tracking, my stars are 4.8 and 4.9.
Does not matter what you charge the Americans for shipping, many do not like the "additional" charge. They are heavily conditioned to "free" shipping. Please, do not start that argument.
The only time I use tracking is when I have to buy Expedited, or, when I once in a blue moon purchase tracked packet.
@mr.elmwood wrote:I do not drink from TRS cup. I feel the whole thing is a carrot and donkey set-up, and, we are not the carrot.
Correct me if I am wrong, but, to get the TRS discount to the USA you would need to upload tracking, within one day, for 90% of shipments? For me, the move from small packet to tracking would cost my customers an extra $6-$9 per parcel. Without the benefit of tracking, my stars are 4.8 and 4.9.
You're right - for US TRS you need that 90% tracking requirement. I may be a donkey, but I do like getting to the barn at night, even if I have to follow a carrot. 
In my view, my Cdn (Global) TRS discount helps to pay for a lot of the shipping "subsidies" I give my US buyers. US TRS is probably a lot less meaningful for Canadian sellers, as the only real additional benefit (so we're told) is better placement in searches. I've had Cdn (Global) TRS for some time, but finally just hit the threshold for US TRS. I'll be interested to see whether it makes any difference in sales.
Granted, US TRS status is easier to achieve if you're selling higher-priced items that you can ship with tracking most of the time.
Is our OP using expensive tracking on their $20 parcels? That is as bad as the GSP coming to us.
No, buyers are not agreeing to the shipping cost just because they buy. They want the widget and are ticked at the cost of shipping, which they do not understand, and then give low DSR.
Ya can't use tracking on low value widgets, yer gonna get dinged, plain and simple.
No, buyers are not agreeing to the shipping cost just because they buy. They want the widget and are ticked at the cost of shipping, which they do not understand, and then give low DSR.
Ya can't use tracking on low value widgets, yer gonna get dinged, plain and simple.
Now that you have lost the TRS discount (the only thing TRS is really good for) you can just tack on a couple of bucks in "handling", ignore the dings and make more money than your discount was ever worth.
The only way to avoid dings for shipping is to give it away ("free" shipping) and even then only because eBay prevents buyers from rating you on shipping cost if it's free (but NOT always). They started that policy because buyers were dinging shipping cost even when it was free!
If you happen to be a seller of very high value items then chasing the TRS carrot might be worth it. Of course if you sell really high value items it's easy to roll the shipping cost into the item price. High price items also tend to attract fewer wingnut star dingers.
TRS is not doing the boost in search it used to. That changed, with all the other changes, back in the spring.
