@hants_records wrote:
Question, and apologies if this is in the wrong section. At present, I sell mainly DVDs at either £1.95 or £2.30, which is Royal Mail large letter postage rate, + 40p for me. With simple delivery, I am going to have to pay £2.70 large letter rate, which means if I offer free postage, my listings will be increased to £3.10. This also means the Buyer Protection Fee will be based on £3.10. However, the listings won’t let me change my listing price to 40p + £2.70, it says the minimum listing amount has to be 99p. Does this mean I’ll have to change all my listings from but it now to auction starting at 40p?
This is a good example of how OhBoy have thoughtlessly upset sellers' well-established methods with their 'Buyer Protection' Fee and 'Simple' Delivery. (I initially mistook your entire selling price for just the postage + 40p handling! I hope you do good business — 40p doesn't seem much reward for listing, managing, wrapping and dispatching an item.)
I've just experimentally listed an auction starting at 40p, and it allowed me to specify my own postage (which starts from £5 for 2nd Class, just in case someone did buy it!). After I closed it, and then started relisting it, the default postage was Simple Delivery, but when I clicked "Switch to advanced options" it showed my own postage again.
While I could have started it at 28p, so as to be able to set a Buy It Now price at your 40p (it tells you that it has to be at least 40% higher), if you do that, you're only told when you try to click 'List' that the BIN price must be min. 99p, just as with a BIN listing.
