new $0.75 shipping from eBay
 

I didn't see anyone else post this yet; so ignore if it's already been discussed ...

Brent Williams (78.4K Tweets) @brentandbecca on Twitter has been reporting:

"Here are the AMAZING details of the upcoming, new 75 cent shipping option for ebay sellers in the sports card category WITH TRACKING!!!! WOW WOW WOW"

[url]https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xjV4eiBdLi0J:https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/shipping/ebay-standard-envelope.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#m22_tb_a1__6[/url]

... This means we can sell PWE in a semi-rigid and get full eBay protection and tracking for just $0.75 per card ... this is a GAME CHANGER

This is indeed very interesting, especially with COMC now having 6 month shipping times.

I wonder if there's anything preventing putting a toploader in an envelope.

When I used to ship PWE, I used a photo envelope (fairly sturdy cardboard, but still bendable), plus a team-bag wrapped toploader and I think that was all under 1/4" inch thickness.

The $20 damage coverage here is a really big deal too.

Kudos to eBay for finally doing something innovative and helpful for sellers.

Go crazy folks

Finally beootches !!

Whoa this is huge. When does this take effect? I tried to change my current listings but was unable to do so.

[QUOTE=dani0100;16614601]This is indeed very interesting, especially with COMC now having 6 month shipping times.

[B]I wonder if there's anything preventing putting a toploader in an envelope.
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When I used to ship PWE, I used a photo envelope (fairly sturdy cardboard, but still bendable), plus a team-bag wrapped toploader and I think that was all under 1/4" inch thickness.

The $20 damage coverage here is a really big deal too.

Kudos to eBay for finally doing something innovative and helpful for sellers.[/QUOTE]

It should be OK; reading the information makes me think eBay is just doing what etsy does (and those can be rigid)

I sell and ship a lot of low $ cards on ebay in a toploader and PWE. I enthusiastically welcome this new method. It's about $0.25 more expensive than me just using a forever stamp so $0.25 for tracking and piece of mind is a no-brainer.

Wow, cool! Took 20 years, but cool anyway.

Nice!

Am I reading it correctly that $20 is the magic number? Hopefully they offer something for International Shipping.

I’ll do this for any PWE sales in the $4+ range

Anything $0.75-$3 I’ll take my chances and continue to sell the regular way w/o the added tracking cost

[QUOTE=Triple B;16614695]Am I reading it correctly that $20 is the magic number? Hopefully they offer something for International Shipping.[/QUOTE]

I think that’s just the amount of insurance they will cover.

This would be big time. Lots of low end cards I like that I either have to skip, or pay 50-150% of the price of the card just for shipping

When does this change start?

LOVE THIS! 2020 ain't all bad!

[QUOTE=gravity;16614651]I sell and ship a lot of low $ cards on ebay in a toploader and PWE. I enthusiastically welcome this new method. It's about $0.25 more expensive than me just using a forever stamp so $0.25 for tracking and piece of mind is a no-brainer.[/QUOTE]

As someone who buys a lot of $2-$5 cards, I would happily pay an extra quarter per item to have tracking. I've got a backlog of PWE shipped cards in my purchase queue and have no idea whether they ever even made it in the mail.

[QUOTE=dani0100;16614601]I wonder if there's anything preventing putting a toploader in an envelope.[/QUOTE]

The link says this works for up to 4 cards in sleeves or 2 cards in toploaders.

I wonder with the whole $20 limit if that means they won't make this option available to the seller for a card that sells for over $20 (so it's not a matter of $20 in insurance, but a $20 price limit on the sale/auction).

I'm all in for this - will allow me to also greatly reduce the sheer number of #000 envelopes I've got. Then I can go back to plain PWEs.

[QUOTE]I’ll do this for any PWE sales in the $4+ range

Anything $0.75-$3 I’ll take my chances and continue to sell the regular way w/o the added tracking cost[/QUOTE]

This is the approach I'll be taking. I buy stamps in bulk from a stamp collector for 38 cents per pre-stamped envelope. So anything under $5 I will continue to use those. Anything between $5-20 I'll be using the tracking option once it launches.

The only thing that concerns me is that they pulled the link from the site after posting it. They did a lot of work on this, so I figure it will still happen, but who knows when.

Scammers hearing this news.
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Here comes the run on card savers !!

[QUOTE=chezball;16615001]Scammers hearing this news.
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I was thinking the same thing! [emoji23]

Love this news if it actually happens.


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[QUOTE=TimBuckTwo;16615025]Here comes the run on card savers !![/QUOTE]

It explicitly mentions top loaders, I don't think anythings gonna change with card savers

This is the best thing eBay has done for for the trading card hobby in a long time.