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cottagewoman · ‎02-25-2025

Will be building up a new .ca store soon given the goings on in the DT White House, and it's been quite a while since I've dealt with domestic shipping (sold on .com for 4 years). I've seen these great rates with courriers like Stallion, but I don't see any way of having these rates show up on ebay listings as calculated shipping. I'm an everything seller, from jewelry to small furniture. Anybody have tips or tricks? Greatly appreciated!

sin-n-dex · ‎02-25-2025

@cottagewoman wrote:
Will be building up a new .ca store soon given the goings on in the DT White House, and it's been quite a while since I've dealt with domestic shipping (sold on .com for 4 years). I've seen these great rates with courriers like Stallion, but I don't see any way of having these rates show up on ebay listings as calculated shipping. I'm an everything seller, from jewelry to small furniture. Anybody have tips or tricks? Greatly appreciated!

I don't think you can use calculated when using a third party service like Stallion. I do flat rate shipping but try to guess about how much it would be. (It's a win some lose some situation, I want to compete with other USA sellers so I can't ask too much for shipping, my coins ship for 4.60 USD which works out to around $6.50-7 CAD, which is in the ballpark of what I pay at Stallion).

What you could do with your third party shipper is get a bunch of quotes for different places in the US, and make sure your flat rate shipping covers most worst case scenarios (might not work well for Alaska and Hawaii, but you could use California or Washington as your high range for shipping costs).

C.

cottagewoman · ‎02-25-2025

Thanks for the info - I'm more interested in domestic Canadian rates that are more affordable than CPost. For the US it'll be 2kg and under items, CPost. Will be moving away from the 'sell like a n'merkin' model unfortunately.

sin-n-dex · ‎02-25-2025

@cottagewoman wrote:
Thanks for the info - I'm more interested in domestic Canadian rates that are more affordable than CPost. For the US it'll be 2kg and under items, CPost. Will be moving away from the 'sell like a n'merkin' model unfortunately.

Are you doing calculated shipping on dot CA or dot COM? I think on dot COM the calculated shipping (if you can do that) will be for Canada as a whole, but being in Canada there's a wide range of rates (like $6 CAD for me to ship elsewhere in Toronto, but $12 to ship to Vancouver).

I guess eBay hasn't integrated their shipping rates with services like Stallion yet to give that type of calculated shipping. What I've done is tried to put the average shipping rate across Canada (with CP), and if it's Southern Ontario I pocket a bit, and if it's Newfoundland it will cost a bit more. Since I sell lightweight items that can go as letter mail within Canada it's only bigger thicker things that I have to worry about this with. I use CP with Stallion for shipping, I haven't tried any of the other couriers yet, most of the stuff I ship and to where does not have the cheaper couriers offered.

C.

flipistics · ‎02-25-2025

@cottagewoman wrote:
Will be building up a new .ca store soon given the goings on in the DT White House, and it's been quite a while since I've dealt with domestic shipping (sold on .com for 4 years). I've seen these great rates with courriers like Stallion, but I don't see any way of having these rates show up on ebay listings as calculated shipping. I'm an everything seller, from jewelry to small furniture. Anybody have tips or tricks? Greatly appreciated!

I'd suggest using shipping rate tables. Explore some 3rd party shipping companies like Stallion, Sendle, etc and create rate tables based on them. You may make a little or lose a little on shipping depending on where it's going, but as long as you break even overall then it should all be good.