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Do Not Use ebid's Calculated Shipping on Auctions
 

Since im banned from ebay and as of right now to lazy to go thru the stealth stuff (will soon). I have been selling some items on ebid (since i cant sell my e-books there either). I sold two xbox 360 games over the weekend to two seperate people in the UK. I used 3.00 for domestic shipping and since i didnt know the cost to ship overseas i just used the calculated by buyers location option for international sales.
That was a BIG mistake for me! The games sold for 2.99 a piece(yeah i didnt set a reserve but oh well my loss) when i got paid thru paypal they only had paid 6.50 for shpping. So, i was like well thats cheap. I packed up the games and went to the post office. To my suprise the cheapest shipping option from where i live is 26.50 . I dont know if ebid's shipping calculator is off by a digit (the 2 in front of the 6) or if since ebid is more popular for the UK if they just did a domestic UK to UK shipping charge. Well, anyways I emailed the buyers and requested an additional $20 from them and guess what? They left me some nasty feedback and filed paypal claims.
I want to know if anyone else who sells on ebid or has sold on ebid has had this same issue or not? I also want to just warn you to never use calculated shipping on ebid. I have noticed that ioffer does charge 26.50 to the UK from my location and if i can remember correctly so did ebay.

we allow sellers to sell ebooks DynaBid Online Auctions

I am sorry to hear that. I hope others would be able to give you good response.

I have just registered with ebid myself, i am so fed up with ebay,Can you please advise me, how the sales are there compared to ebay? also is it good to list as bid or fixed price?? i guess u have good experience with the site by now

Ebid might be the next biggest auction site to ebay but nothing sells. I had a list of items running for 6 months and nobody bought anything. I hate ebay but hate it or not, thats the only auction site that you can make money on.

yes,i cannot agree with you any more,ebay is the no.1 auction site to make money

No doubt about it, I put stuff on ebay it has bids within the first hour, I put the items on another site and it will sit there for weeks and when it does sell it sells for less than it would on ebay.

Makes me wish I still had my t-shirt press, I'm gonna buy another one, I was gonna make some ebay power seller t-shirts for myself and sell the rest on ebay see if they'll get me for copyright infringement and see if they can track me down to my stealth ebay account LOL