Most of the listings on eBay nowadays are Fixed Price, but most sellers start out with Auctions. Benefits are :
* Most auctions have a 7 day listing, which is plenty.
*You can learn what the real market price for the item is fairly quickly.
- And by the by, don't take eBay's truly stupid advice to start your auctions at 99 cents. This might have been reasonable a decade ago, but today, start your item at a price you would be content to accept (cost including eBay fees plus a markup).
*You have 50 Free Auction listings every month, and another 50 on eBaydotCOM, so if something doesn't sell you are only out your procurement costs + your time.
Personally, I prefer Fixed Price, but my items are slow movers, which is also reflected in my prices, and FP /Good Til Cancelled is a good choice for me. Less labour for one thing.
I would suggest using FreeShipping domestically. Here's how. Include the cost of domestic shipping in your asking price. Then using Flat Rate S&H, reduce the actual shipping cost by the amount you added into the asking price.
For example.
Your item cost you $5 and will cost $5 to ship within Canada. You want to take home $5 in profit.
So you list at $15, either as starting price in an auction or as Fixed Price.
Now when you set up US shipping, say it will cost you $10, you give it as $5.
Your Canadian buyer would pay $15including" Free" shipping. Your US buyer would pay $20 including shipping.
In fact, shipping to the US is not always more expensive than domestically, which really ticks off Canadians. In that case you can give your shipping fee to the USA as $0.00, and charge the American customer the same $15 as your Canadian customer.
Free Shipping is an advertising gimmick. Buyers love it.
Ten percent of nothing is—let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin'. Carry the nothin'...-- Jayne Cobb
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