well i guess you have your answer, thats the same reason nobody else is doing it

Some listings do stop you from adding a postage price altogether remember.

Regards,
Sean

You are at a disadvantage for a few reasons, if you inclued P&P in your listing cost and advertise your listing with free P&P when there is a delively cost for you.
First your Ebay fees will be higher.
Second you will be penalized in ebay search results on the search term cheapest first.
I list my items as follows
£34.99 for item and £14.99 P&P
you have no advantage by saying free P&P. it best too increase P&P to the maximum and lower the cost of item. am i missing something?

Originally Posted by paul161

You are at a disadvantage for a few reasons, if you inclued P&P in your listing cost and advertise your listing with free P&P when there is a delively cost for you.
First your Ebay fees will be higher.
Second you will be penalized in ebay search results on the search term cheapest first.
I list my items as follows
£34.99 for item and £14.99 P&P
you have no advantage by saying free P&P. it best too increase P&P to the maximum and lower the cost of item. am i missing something?

Just cant be arsed to reply constructively I'm sure someone else will.

Originally Posted by crispydog

Just cant be arsed to reply constructively I'm sure someone else will.

I'll give it a go

Originally Posted by paul161

You are at a disadvantage for a few reasons, if you inclued P&P in your listing cost and advertise your listing with free P&P when there is a delively cost for you.
First your Ebay fees will be higher.
Second you will be penalized in ebay search results on the search term cheapest first.
I list my items as follows
£34.99 for item and £14.99 P&P
you have no advantage by saying free P&P. it best too increase P&P to the maximum and lower the cost of item. am i missing something?

Yes, you are missing lots and lots of sales.

What you have said may have been true on ebay 2 or 3 years ago but not anymore.

Since last year the default search is "best match" this attempts to use quite complicated algorithms to show the most relevant items at the top, with recent updates this takes more factors into account.

The factors include price, p+p, keywords, detailed seller ratings (dispatch time, communication, description, P+P charges!) and very importantly they now use a view-sale ration on all listings, high views and low sales will mean you will drop in the rankings.

So the ultimate listing for best match will be one which is cheap, includes free postage, uses the right keywords (using wrong ones wil mean you sales ratio is bad) and comes from a seller who has a record of sending items quickly and communicating well.

Basically your method shouldn't work anymore and you will lose sales because of it.

Also with the cheapest first inc. p&p search, tbh, I wouldn't care if a seller came top of the list, if their P&P charges were extortionate I would not buy from that seller, I know roughly how much things should cost to post, so will continue down the listing until I find a more reasonable, moralistic seller (I am not the only person who would do this).

Granted, I don't list all of my items with free P&P though I do on some, but the ones that I do charge P&P for it is only to cover part / all of my cost on heavier / valuable items, never over the top.

Yup im afriad the old days of making money off high postage fees are gone....

I do Free P&P on pretty much everything now, except car parts.

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