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Free shipping or charge
 

Do you see more sales with free shipping or charging shipping

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Surprisingly, separating shipping costs from total price entices more buyers - the price appears "cheaper" in search.

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Confused can u explain

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I like both. On auctions, always shipping fee and a high one at that.

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Further down in thread

https://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-t...s-jan-1-a.html

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But if you offer free shipping, I believe the search algo would bump you up,

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True, but more sales volume is seen by Cassini as eh.. "better"

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ebay encourages seller to offer free shipping,buyers can search and specify free shipping.
To me,sellers would just add shipping to the asking price,most buyers are wise to shop TOTAL PRICE.

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That's just it though... assuming your buyers are as tech-savy as you is your biggest mistake.

$10 item with $3 shipping looks 'less' to a buyer in search than the same item listed at $13

You don't really see the shipping price until you click the listing and/or get to check out..

Free shipping is just an old marketing gimmick when ecommerce took off. It was all the rage. Now who really cares lol

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I always put Free shipping in all of my listings. Just add up the cost of the shipping to your pricing. :D but of course, see your profit margin on this, and the other ads.

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Everyone cares, that's who.

It's not gonna appear cheaper when the customer never sees it because it's buried in search.

But if you're in a targeted niche, and there's only a few competitors, then I could see charging for it.

Personally, I do it both ways.

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AMZ =/= Ebay

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Disagree. Sales velocity is more heavily weighted in the search algo than free shipping.

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Go ahead and post up some screenshots of heavy-competition products with non-free-shipping listings being at the top.

Not saying they DON'T exist. I just want to see some.

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I have some, but I am not posting a link or screenshot of my items on this forum LOL

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Don't blame ya there! But is it really HEAVY competition? Probably not...

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Maybe 1000 listings. few hundred sellers. Not like phone accessories or laptops etc..

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Ditto. I cant speak for 10k+ categories (do sell in some), but honestly I think the results would turn out the same.

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Even in auctions people are less concerned about shipping costs. Same item can go for more than BIN with free shipping.

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I ALWAYS charge ample shipping on my auctions. More than enough to cover the actual shipping charge.