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Basic posting help needed

Hi all, I’ve just listed one item for sale (am based in the UK) and in the inventory it gives the price, say £70 and then it says + postage. When I follow what is called template it puts UK to UK as £0. Do I have to assume that all UK postage is to be included in the price I am selling the item at?

Then below it says +5.50euro for say Germany. When I go to sell globally it has listed my product in several European countries and put a Euro price. However I cant see that it is adding postage. When I look at that template (all in German) it seems to say that Germany to Germany is euro0 but then also gives international prices.
Do I need to do something to add postage cost to Europe or will it automatically be added should someone from Europe by it?

Thanks in advance

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Seller_WlCqvgDUeQOAI

Basic posting help needed

Hi all, I’ve just listed one item for sale (am based in the UK) and in the inventory it gives the price, say £70 and then it says + postage. When I follow what is called template it puts UK to UK as £0. Do I have to assume that all UK postage is to be included in the price I am selling the item at?

Then below it says +5.50euro for say Germany. When I go to sell globally it has listed my product in several European countries and put a Euro price. However I cant see that it is adding postage. When I look at that template (all in German) it seems to say that Germany to Germany is euro0 but then also gives international prices.
Do I need to do something to add postage cost to Europe or will it automatically be added should someone from Europe by it?

Thanks in advance

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Amazon’s standard rates don’t, or not always. They are just supposed to be a contribution to the cost (and are actually what the customer pays). Obviously, it depends on the size and weight of the book. £2.80 will certainly cover the cost of a normal, not too thick paperback but any hardback is likely to cost £3.10 as a small parcel by Royal Mail. For Europe, it’s worse as even a paperback will cost £4.00. The only solution is to increase your price to cover the difference.
You mentioned a price of £70. If the book is worth that much, you’ll need to send it by Special Delivery which will add to your costs

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You might want to turn off interntaional postage on your books, the rates set by amazon on the non professional plan are totally inadequate for shipping overseas and you are likely to be in a loss making situaton for anything but expensive books.

You also should avoid the professional plan, as the monthly fees are designed for large volume selling. I’ve been selling books on here for 10 years and I am still on the basic plan because my level of sales do not justify converting to professional.

You may find ebay a better platform, but if you have some good quality books your could try abebooks (owned by Amazon) but here again there is a monthly fee, so you really need to list a lot of books to recover the cost out of sales.

Hope this helps

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No point in selling a book on Amazon, if it weighs over 2kg shipped in professional book mailer. Whoever sets the delivery rates in Amazon, are in cloud cuckoo land. True cost of shipping to a UK buyer by Royal Mail is £8.99 but Amazon Charge the buyer and credit the seller with £2.80!! (up to 2kg it’s £3.10 so only loss to the seller is 30p. No big deal! Over 2kg price leaps up by £5.89!. In fact it’s cheaper to use courier service like Collect Plus, who would charge £5.85 inc. VAT. Still a 33.00 loss, but you could add that on to the price of the book if you wished to.

Shipping to Europe, even worse. Just under 2kg Royal Mail charge £12.52. Amazon allow the seller and charge the buyer, just over £4.00. a thumping loss to the seller of over £8 !!. They don’t ship to Europe over 2kg, as they know Couriers are cheaper than Royal Mail can manage.

I don’t know if books have any special concessions on shipping. I can’t find any evidence of it.

Would be interested to hear other peoples views, but of course, if you just google Amazon bad reviews you’ll find a stream of them on all different aspects of selling on Amazon. “Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be”, I think the Musical was!!

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Basic posting help needed

Hi all, I’ve just listed one item for sale (am based in the UK) and in the inventory it gives the price, say £70 and then it says + postage. When I follow what is called template it puts UK to UK as £0. Do I have to assume that all UK postage is to be included in the price I am selling the item at?

Then below it says +5.50euro for say Germany. When I go to sell globally it has listed my product in several European countries and put a Euro price. However I cant see that it is adding postage. When I look at that template (all in German) it seems to say that Germany to Germany is euro0 but then also gives international prices.
Do I need to do something to add postage cost to Europe or will it automatically be added should someone from Europe by it?

Thanks in advance

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Seller_WlCqvgDUeQOAI

Basic posting help needed

Hi all, I’ve just listed one item for sale (am based in the UK) and in the inventory it gives the price, say £70 and then it says + postage. When I follow what is called template it puts UK to UK as £0. Do I have to assume that all UK postage is to be included in the price I am selling the item at?

Then below it says +5.50euro for say Germany. When I go to sell globally it has listed my product in several European countries and put a Euro price. However I cant see that it is adding postage. When I look at that template (all in German) it seems to say that Germany to Germany is euro0 but then also gives international prices.
Do I need to do something to add postage cost to Europe or will it automatically be added should someone from Europe by it?

Thanks in advance

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Hi all, I’ve just listed one item for sale (am based in the UK) and in the inventory it gives the price, say £70 and then it says + postage. When I follow what is called template it puts UK to UK as £0. Do I have to assume that all UK postage is to be included in the price I am selling the item at?

Then below it says +5.50euro for say Germany. When I go to sell globally it has listed my product in several European countries and put a Euro price. However I cant see that it is adding postage. When I look at that template (all in German) it seems to say that Germany to Germany is euro0 but then also gives international prices.
Do I need to do something to add postage cost to Europe or will it automatically be added should someone from Europe by it?

Thanks in advance

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Amazon’s standard rates don’t, or not always. They are just supposed to be a contribution to the cost (and are actually what the customer pays). Obviously, it depends on the size and weight of the book. £2.80 will certainly cover the cost of a normal, not too thick paperback but any hardback is likely to cost £3.10 as a small parcel by Royal Mail. For Europe, it’s worse as even a paperback will cost £4.00. The only solution is to increase your price to cover the difference.
You mentioned a price of £70. If the book is worth that much, you’ll need to send it by Special Delivery which will add to your costs

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Seller_64jziShTiTjOq
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Amazon’s standard rates don’t, or not always. They are just supposed to be a contribution to the cost (and are actually what the customer pays). Obviously, it depends on the size and weight of the book. £2.80 will certainly cover the cost of a normal, not too thick paperback but any hardback is likely to cost £3.10 as a small parcel by Royal Mail. For Europe, it’s worse as even a paperback will cost £4.00. The only solution is to increase your price to cover the difference.
You mentioned a price of £70. If the book is worth that much, you’ll need to send it by Special Delivery which will add to your costs

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Seller_64jziShTiTjOq
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Amazon’s standard rates don’t, or not always. They are just supposed to be a contribution to the cost (and are actually what the customer pays). Obviously, it depends on the size and weight of the book. £2.80 will certainly cover the cost of a normal, not too thick paperback but any hardback is likely to cost £3.10 as a small parcel by Royal Mail. For Europe, it’s worse as even a paperback will cost £4.00. The only solution is to increase your price to cover the difference.
You mentioned a price of £70. If the book is worth that much, you’ll need to send it by Special Delivery which will add to your costs

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You might want to turn off interntaional postage on your books, the rates set by amazon on the non professional plan are totally inadequate for shipping overseas and you are likely to be in a loss making situaton for anything but expensive books.

You also should avoid the professional plan, as the monthly fees are designed for large volume selling. I’ve been selling books on here for 10 years and I am still on the basic plan because my level of sales do not justify converting to professional.

You may find ebay a better platform, but if you have some good quality books your could try abebooks (owned by Amazon) but here again there is a monthly fee, so you really need to list a lot of books to recover the cost out of sales.

Hope this helps

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No point in selling a book on Amazon, if it weighs over 2kg shipped in professional book mailer. Whoever sets the delivery rates in Amazon, are in cloud cuckoo land. True cost of shipping to a UK buyer by Royal Mail is £8.99 but Amazon Charge the buyer and credit the seller with £2.80!! (up to 2kg it’s £3.10 so only loss to the seller is 30p. No big deal! Over 2kg price leaps up by £5.89!. In fact it’s cheaper to use courier service like Collect Plus, who would charge £5.85 inc. VAT. Still a 33.00 loss, but you could add that on to the price of the book if you wished to.

Shipping to Europe, even worse. Just under 2kg Royal Mail charge £12.52. Amazon allow the seller and charge the buyer, just over £4.00. a thumping loss to the seller of over £8 !!. They don’t ship to Europe over 2kg, as they know Couriers are cheaper than Royal Mail can manage.

I don’t know if books have any special concessions on shipping. I can’t find any evidence of it.

Would be interested to hear other peoples views, but of course, if you just google Amazon bad reviews you’ll find a stream of them on all different aspects of selling on Amazon. “Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be”, I think the Musical was!!

Shipping to Europe is

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Seller_RiVN2dcWY6xy9
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You might want to turn off interntaional postage on your books, the rates set by amazon on the non professional plan are totally inadequate for shipping overseas and you are likely to be in a loss making situaton for anything but expensive books.

You also should avoid the professional plan, as the monthly fees are designed for large volume selling. I’ve been selling books on here for 10 years and I am still on the basic plan because my level of sales do not justify converting to professional.

You may find ebay a better platform, but if you have some good quality books your could try abebooks (owned by Amazon) but here again there is a monthly fee, so you really need to list a lot of books to recover the cost out of sales.

Hope this helps

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Seller_RiVN2dcWY6xy9
In reply to: Seller_WlCqvgDUeQOAI’s post

You might want to turn off interntaional postage on your books, the rates set by amazon on the non professional plan are totally inadequate for shipping overseas and you are likely to be in a loss making situaton for anything but expensive books.

You also should avoid the professional plan, as the monthly fees are designed for large volume selling. I’ve been selling books on here for 10 years and I am still on the basic plan because my level of sales do not justify converting to professional.

You may find ebay a better platform, but if you have some good quality books your could try abebooks (owned by Amazon) but here again there is a monthly fee, so you really need to list a lot of books to recover the cost out of sales.

Hope this helps

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No point in selling a book on Amazon, if it weighs over 2kg shipped in professional book mailer. Whoever sets the delivery rates in Amazon, are in cloud cuckoo land. True cost of shipping to a UK buyer by Royal Mail is £8.99 but Amazon Charge the buyer and credit the seller with £2.80!! (up to 2kg it’s £3.10 so only loss to the seller is 30p. No big deal! Over 2kg price leaps up by £5.89!. In fact it’s cheaper to use courier service like Collect Plus, who would charge £5.85 inc. VAT. Still a 33.00 loss, but you could add that on to the price of the book if you wished to.

Shipping to Europe, even worse. Just under 2kg Royal Mail charge £12.52. Amazon allow the seller and charge the buyer, just over £4.00. a thumping loss to the seller of over £8 !!. They don’t ship to Europe over 2kg, as they know Couriers are cheaper than Royal Mail can manage.

I don’t know if books have any special concessions on shipping. I can’t find any evidence of it.

Would be interested to hear other peoples views, but of course, if you just google Amazon bad reviews you’ll find a stream of them on all different aspects of selling on Amazon. “Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be”, I think the Musical was!!

Shipping to Europe is

00
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Seller_6JvuHGsfqCvmX
In reply to: Seller_WlCqvgDUeQOAI’s post

No point in selling a book on Amazon, if it weighs over 2kg shipped in professional book mailer. Whoever sets the delivery rates in Amazon, are in cloud cuckoo land. True cost of shipping to a UK buyer by Royal Mail is £8.99 but Amazon Charge the buyer and credit the seller with £2.80!! (up to 2kg it’s £3.10 so only loss to the seller is 30p. No big deal! Over 2kg price leaps up by £5.89!. In fact it’s cheaper to use courier service like Collect Plus, who would charge £5.85 inc. VAT. Still a 33.00 loss, but you could add that on to the price of the book if you wished to.

Shipping to Europe, even worse. Just under 2kg Royal Mail charge £12.52. Amazon allow the seller and charge the buyer, just over £4.00. a thumping loss to the seller of over £8 !!. They don’t ship to Europe over 2kg, as they know Couriers are cheaper than Royal Mail can manage.

I don’t know if books have any special concessions on shipping. I can’t find any evidence of it.

Would be interested to hear other peoples views, but of course, if you just google Amazon bad reviews you’ll find a stream of them on all different aspects of selling on Amazon. “Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be”, I think the Musical was!!

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