AND
WHILE YOU’RE IN MY eBAY STORE—why not consider picking up something special for
wife, mother, sister or daughter in your life? Have hundreds of jewelry, home
décor and collectible items such as Precious Moments, carousels, lighthouses
& Coca-Cola items. Combine shipping and save!
US
shipping only. Have many other items (1,300+ listings typically)—home décor,
jewelry, repurposed tin birdhouses, music,
books—nonfiction, self-help, Christian, mystery, suspense, biography,
historical, sports, a handful that are autographed, several by bestselling
authors; audio books; garden flags;
dozens of carousel-related items; lighthouse-related; variety of Coca Cola
items; train / railroad items; Harley-Davidson items; sports related; Disney
pins; Elvis-related, and misc. listed and to list –so please check back or
favorite me as a seller to easily locate in the future.
Because
of the volume of items I’m listing (most from trying to downsize), returns are
not accepted.
Happy
to combine shipping (except books, which go by media mail---books can be
combined together OR all other items can be combined together via first class
or priority mail, depending on total weight). Please let me know BEFORE checking out so I can apply
shipping discount to the invoice.
SHIPPING
NOTE: most
of my items (unless books or weighing less than 6 ounces) are set up to do
calculated shipping. This means, based on the weight AND size of the item, plus
your unique zip code, eBay will come up with and show your shipping fee. Be
aware that anything over 12 inches gets dinged a bit on price (goes up a good
bit) and every few inches, the tier increases significantly. This means you
will pay a lot more for a package of the same weight if it is 21” long vs 14”
long. I try to be extremely fair on shipping, unlike some eBay sellers who
charge outrageous fees and pocket the difference. I had to start setting up
calculated shipping because the same package traveling 300 miles away costs far
less than if it goes 1,200 miles away. Buyers come from all over so I don’t
know in advance where it will need to be shipped. As a result, I ate dozens of
partial shipping costs (i.e. it cost me more to ship than whatever flat rate I
had on my listing), ranging anywhere from $1 to about $7. Enter calculated
shipping to eliminate that issue!
Part
of why I am telling you all this, is I have gotten several emails lately from
potential buyers asking about a high shipping fee. In a couple instances, the
ship fee was MORE than the item they were buying! It’s the calculated shipping,
NOT what I would prefer to charge for shipping. Shipping fees have gotten
pretty crazy, but there is really no way to work around that. FYI, anything 1
pound or heavier cannot go by first class, which has a 16 oz limit. That almost
always means it will need to go by Priority Mail then, unless it’s books which
ship via the cheaper media mail rate.
2021: Additional
note on shipping times—shipping length has increased significantly for ALL
classes of mail. This is what happens when politicians tamper with the way the
post office is run. Please do NOT leave negative feedback based on how long it
took the item to arrive as I have absolutely ZERO control over that. Ditto if
an item that I have carefully wrapped gets broken in shipment. Contact me about
a broken issue, send me photos and we can proceed from there. If you are on a
deadline for getting an item (e.g. if it’s a birthday gift), do NOT expect
Priority Mail will get it there in 2 days as it has in the past. Priorities are
sometimes taking 4 days to a week or more now. Media mail, which was never
designed to ship fast, has gone from taking like 4 days to 2 weeks, to easily
taking a week to 3-4 weeks. Mind you, I am giving you best and worst case
scenarios based on how long I’m seeing packages I ship take to arrive these
last 4 months or so. Most likely, your shipment will fall somewhere in between
on those timelines.