When selling on eBay you’ve got remember youve got to get your sold item to its buyer safely and securely and this costs money. Never fear your buyer pays for it! but if your not pennywise and work out your P&P accurately you could end up out pocket
How postage for an item is calculated
There are three classes of post: Letter is just a normal size letter you get like a bill or a bank statement. Large letter, this could be upto A4 size and about as thick as a text book say. Then there is package. This is everything upto and including big boxes like TV’s or large deliveries.
Each one is increasingly expensive because of the size obviously. But also postage is calculated down to the weight of the item. This is where you’ll need a set of scales to weigh your item at home so you can calculate the postage yourself before you take it to the post office.
Steps to setting your P&P accurately
Step 1: weigh your item, packaged if you can but if your yet to sellt it weigh it with packaging! if you havent got your packaging yet add about 15g for the envelope as a rule of thumb.
Step 2: enter the weight to the postage calculator: This tool will be your holy grail! its been made by the royal mail its simple and accurate to the T! click here for the postage calculator and bookmark!
Step 3: Add the amount it cost for the envelope/box: if your a business eBayer buying your postage supplies in bulk is cheaper! (work out the price of each envelope by dividing the total price you paid by how many envelopes there are)
Step 4 (optional) if your items P&P is quite cheap you could be cheeky and add your listing fee also. This is common practice for people who use regular listing but if your going for a more feature rich listing (featured/added pics/scheduled etc) i suggest you bypass this because a stupidly high P&P price will deter the potential buyer.
Step 5 post you listing and good luck!
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