We have recently discontinued our free shipping experiment on all single trading card listings. Free shipping will still be available with a coupon when a certain quantity of items is purchased on the same invoice. Also, items purchased with best offers or even counteroffers, are not eligible for price or shipping discounts.
Most of the trading cards we sell will fall under the criteria for ebay's standard envelope shipping option. Thicker/larger items, sets and large lots of items that fall outside the ESE criteria will require shipping most likely with USPS Ground Advantage or a similar service from one of the other carriers.
The ebay standard
envelope shipping option is nice. It allows sellers the luxury of being
able to sell a lot of lower ticket items that otherwise might never sell
and most of the time, the process goes very well but it is far from
100% reliable.....especially the tracking. We ship everything we
sell--(read that again)---within our dispatch time. If problems arise with any transaction,
we'll work with our buyers to remedy any situation or issue refunds in a
timely manner.
If
purchasing multiple items, you may need to wait for an updated/combined invoice
before making payment. Hoping we have all the proper settings figured
out to where this all happens automatically. Please feel free to take
some time to check out all of our listings for items you may be
interested in. All items need to be paid for together. We may let it slide with two or three items, depending on the price paid but ebay does charge a fee per transaction and this can eliminate positive margin.
Also....we
have a five BUSINESS day turnaround/dispatch time on all our listings. Weekends and holidays are not business days. A
lot of the time, we are able to get shipments out way ahead of this
schedule. Sometimes, we have other things going on that require us to
take the full five days.