US to US shipping costs for Sports Trading Cards

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I am a Buyer and Seller of Sports Cards on ebay.com and eBay.ca, located in Canada. What I'd like to know is, is there any way for me to see what Sports Card Sellers in the US are charging their US Buyers for shipping single RAW or GRADED cards, plus combined shjipping costs? I can only see the cost to ship from the US to Canada, regardless of which eBay site I'm on. eBay, and the Chrome Browser that I use on my PC, know that I am located in Canada so the sites automatically assume that I am only intereested in shipping costs to Canada. Why I'd like to know what my US counterparts are charging is for comparison purposes to aid me in determining my list price and shipping costs to the US from Canada, and therefore how competitive are my shipping costs to the US compared to what US Sellers are charging their US Buyers. BTW, I list most of my cards on the US eBay.com site because I have always had more success selling on there than on the Canada eBay.ca site. Hoping someone can enlighten me!

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@expresscardsandcomics wrote:

I am a Buyer and Seller of Sports Cards on ebay.com and eBay.ca, located in Canada. What I'd like to know is, is there any way for me to see what Sports Card Sellers in the US are charging their US Buyers for shipping single RAW or GRADED cards, plus combined shjipping costs? I can only see the cost to ship from the US to Canada, regardless of which eBay site I'm on. eBay, and the Chrome Browser that I use on my PC, know that I am located in Canada so the sites automatically assume that I am only intereested in shipping costs to Canada. Why I'd like to know what my US counterparts are charging is for comparison purposes to aid me in determining my list price and shipping costs to the US from Canada, and therefore how competitive are my shipping costs to the US compared to what US Sellers are charging their US Buyers. BTW, I list most of my cards on the US eBay.com site because I have always had more success selling on there than on the Canada eBay.ca site. Hoping someone can enlighten me!

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If you go into a listing, click on "see details" beside the shipping price. Change the country to USA and put in any zip code (you could use something like 90210). It'll now show you shipping prices to that zip code until you change it again.  I'm not sure if it's the same on mobile or not.

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@expresscardsandcomics wrote:

I am a Buyer and Seller of Sports Cards on ebay.com and eBay.ca, located in Canada. What I'd like to know is, is there any way for me to see what Sports Card Sellers in the US are charging their US Buyers for shipping single RAW or GRADED cards, plus combined shjipping costs? I can only see the cost to ship from the US to Canada, regardless of which eBay site I'm on. eBay, and the Chrome Browser that I use on my PC, know that I am located in Canada so the sites automatically assume that I am only intereested in shipping costs to Canada. Why I'd like to know what my US counterparts are charging is for comparison purposes to aid me in determining my list price and shipping costs to the US from Canada, and therefore how competitive are my shipping costs to the US compared to what US Sellers are charging their US Buyers. BTW, I list most of my cards on the US eBay.com site because I have always had more success selling on there than on the Canada eBay.ca site. Hoping someone can enlighten me!

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It's pretty simple, go to the US ebay site (the dot com one), pick the listing you want to see, and then for shipping, change your location to a US zip (I use 93930 since I used to live there), and then shipping to the US will show up. You can try this with any country that listing ships to, to see what others are charging for shipping.

Based on the cost of mailing a letter with just a card in it, I'd presume most sellers are charging around a dollar for a raw ungraded card.

C.

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@expresscardsandcomics 

If the card value is under US$20 most sellers are using ESE (eBay Special Envelope) via USPS, the cost is about 70 cents, so I usually see prices in the 75 - 1.99 range for shipping. There is tracking but it's sketchy at best.

For cards over US$20 they use Ground Advantage (quality tracking) which costs 4 dollars and change with buyers being charged exact amount or maybe adding 50 cents (using the retail price chart).

[expresscardsandcomics]

Thank you for the suggestion. Much apprecaited!