For those that didn't notice (Like me), sometime last spring ebay started charging an 11% Final Value Fee (FVF) on the Shipping Invoice.
If they sent me a message about this important change, I sure missed it.
Then, again this morning, I had a Foreign Order where the shipping was discounted at the DOMESTIC rate. Big difference between $2-3 and $.75, my domestic multi piece shipping add on.
I don't mind eating a dollar or so out of my margin on multi piece orders, but between the 11% and the ever rising cost of foreign shipping, this guarantees I LOST money on several otherwise nice recent foreign orders.
Oh, and all the Cheap Charlies out there that want to pay the "Actual Cost" of shipping, how about the BOX and TAPE and $.15 to print out the mailing label?
Update (March 22, 2013); Well, as expected, foreign sales, other than a few to Canada, have almost entirely ended, now that I have realistic foreign postage costs posted.
Update (September 2013), shipping FVF is now the "Standard" 10%, with foreign orders being invoiced to the seller at their posted domestic rate. But I am still getting resistance from customers at my realistic shipping charges. I will write further about this above.
