eBay allows listings with the 53 cent postcard rate

[bucolic_frolic]

I think it's allowed in all categories, but when you go to ship items it will only print 53 cent labels in the postcard, coins categories. So if you list a paper item in collectibles or memorabilia, you get stuck with full first class rate.

eBay is absolutely broken. They don't have things well thought out. It's just one glitch after another.

[Grasswire2]

1. I haven't been an active seller for a long time.

Why do you have to go through that? Can't you include the price of postage in the selling price and just say "free postage"?

Also....are you saying that nothing can be mailed "media mail"?

Help me understand this.

[KS Toronado]

2. I'm confused also

[bucolic_frolic]

3. include the price of postage in the selling price

Will anyone bid?

Media mail is almost as much as first class, at least in the lower weight classes.

If an item is ineligible for a shipping category it should be excluded. It' s like a teaser rate.

[Grasswire2]

4. So, to be clear....

...if you sell a postcard, you eat the postage?

Is that what you mean?

I was a dealer in vintage sheet music. That may be sent via media mail, but the cardboard stiffener and envelope weigh far more than the music itself. First class postage would be prohibitive.