Simple delivery packaging costs

[daveinbirkenhead]

I can't figure out how to factor in the packaging costs on simple delivery.  I'm selling vinyl records and the packaging costs £1 per item I sell. That's a fixed cost can't reduce. I can't 'add it to the sale price' because I don't list under buy it now (mostly because I have no idea what price to put and prefer an auction to let the market decide the price) . I can't buy packaging in large bulk as I'm NOT a business seller and simply don't have the funds plus they cost more cos i pay vat like a regular customer .  I can't ship my items in fresh air but I can't factor in the of packaging into my postage costs. This is ridiculous! Some of my items sell for 99p but as I'm taking a loss of £1 on the packaging I'm literally PAYING my buyer 1p to take it off my hands! Plus all the other costs like a printer, ink, labels and my time. I'm a private seller and can't write off these as business expenses. Do you expect us to post the items without labels or packaging? Plus I do not want to use evri I haven't got time to get to a parcel shop  (also i want my items to be actually delivered) I want my items to be collected  from my home by royal mail, but there's no way to do this using 'simple' delivery. And I need to specify tracked 48 otherwise you're sitting on my money for 2 weeks until I can prove an item wad delivered. How on earth am I supposed to deal with making a loss on every item I sell?!

[trackspin]

I totally agree with you and could have ‘mirrored’ your post nearly exactly. 
I use the Post Office because I can walk there. Don’t ask me to use Evri lockers because I’m fed up of walking there to find out they are full. Additionally, the only time an item got damaged was when I used Evri.

I also post vinyl records and the cartons and stiffeners cost me over a £1 per vinyl.

I appreciate I can add that to my ‘buy it now’ price but that will make me look expensive compared to people who post in sub standard packaging. 
Regarding auctions, I will have to increase the ‘starting bid’ point and ignore the eBay recommended 0.99p starting point.

I do not believe that EBay are introducing ‘simple’ postage for the benefit of the seller, if the system doesn’t become more suited to my needs, I’ll start selling on Discogs instead. 

[snowylilliput-2]

One other thing , royal mail no longer collect for free . There is a charge off 30p per parcel now so the £1 you are adding for packaging will not cover that