EBay Simple Postage Costs

[pamel_3339]

As A Private Seller, I have just listed an item and I am now being charged £3.94 using Royal Mail by eBay to post an item that costs £3.45 with Royal Mail. No way out of this. Feel like removing free postage and charging the buyer knowing it won't sell just for the fun of it.

[thepillenwerfer]

If you let the Buyer pay they'll be charged £3.38.  Whether it being more if the Seller pays is a deliberate policy or yet another bug is unknown.

[edwardian-dreams]

EBay charges more for postage for items sold over £100 

£3.94 is the charge for 0-1kg small parcel there

not sure why

[the_laser_architect]

Came here to find out if others are having this same issue. It costs just £3.45 to send a 2kg parcel with RM yet Ebay are trying to charge me £3.95 if i mark the parcel as 1kg and £4.45 if i mark it as 2kg! I just changed my listing from free postage and now the seller can fork out the money. once my listings are sold i'm done selling. no more!

[goodibags]

I had a similar thing with selling stamps. Above £100 value the SD rate shoots up to £3.45. It's only a large letter and RM tracked postage bought direct is just £2.70. £3.45 is the RM rate for a tracked small parcel!

I guess Ebay is using the inflated SD rates to part subsidise slightly lower ones?

Good luck selling with the higher postage costs. We urgently need that SD opt-out!