The cost of shipping | Business Seller Board

truck-88 · 2026-04-04T13:17:13.836000Z

With the cost of Diesel fuel now increased by over 30% the cost of shipping goods on a pallet is now very high. a fuel surcharge is added the the headline cost of Pallet delivery by the transport company. We are now paying a lot over £80 for some pallets. On goods of this type free shipping is not an option as the margin is too low. The 10% charge made by E bay does not help and is now preventing customers from buying. Is it not time for E bay to scrap this charge for some large and heavy items. Selling items overseas which need a pallet is not now not an option with an E bay sale and we have lost a lot of sales. Since the war started. Fuel prices have gone up a lot and will remain high and we are now having to list items on other sites in order to maintain sales. When we started selling goods of this size we only listed on the E bay site but the changes they have made over the last few years have caused us to make changes which have caused us to take some type of goods off the e bay site. I would like to see an answer to this post by E bay. What do other sellers think? As well as selling we also buy a lot from E bay , these tend to be small items which some sellers send by Post. In some parts of the country Royal Mail are holding back letters and small postable parcels. In our area they are being held on times for more than two weeks. I understand this is to allow them to handle larger parcels and they seem not to have the staff to sort and deliver all items on time. If we send out small items we always use a delivery company and we will not use Royal Mail sellers should take note and I think E bay should try to put pressure on Royal Mail to get them to sort the matter out.

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