Partial refund for shipping?

[3islanders]

Related to my other question about selling expensive items to the USA. If I have to use UPS to get insurance coverage, the cost of that will vary on the final selling price. I wonder about making a flat rate based on average sold prices and the farthest state from me, and offering to refund excess.
How would I do that? If eBay holds funds until the buyer gets the item, then I assume the refund would have to be after that...?

[pjcdn2005]

You can refund through eBay before you receive the money.  Refunds can be done from pending payments.  That's how it works if you are buying shipping through eBay as well...shipping is paid from pending funds.  If the funds are deposited before the amount is deducted from pending payments, then they will bill your secondary selling fee source.

[reallynicestamps]

Don't.

You should be able to use Calculated Shipping with UPS and more recently FedEx.

A quick look at a template using the older Advance/Business selling form doesn't show that-- but that may be because I rarely use anything but the postal system.

But the answer is Calculated Shipping-- someone else will have to show you how to use it.

I'm also cranky enough to discourage promising refunds. Getting one unexpectedly is better than saying you might give one. It comes under "underpromis and overdeliver".

[3islanders]

Good point about not promising beforehand. I didn't see any option to use anything other than Canada Post for calculated shipping. Elsewhere, someone commented that you can only use UPS with a flat rate option 😕