How we calculate our P&P prices. P&P means postage and packaging so includes a lot more than just the price printed on the franked label.
Our prices are made up of these factors:
|
UK | Europe | Rest of World |
---|---|---|---|
P&P charge |
£3.25 |
£3.50 |
£4.70 |
eBay & PayPal fees* |
£0.49 |
£0.53 |
£0.70 |
Packaging materials |
£0.20 |
£0.20 |
£0.20 |
Labels |
£0.05 |
£0.05 |
£0.05 |
Franking machine rental & ink |
£0.15 |
£0.15 |
£0.15 |
Postage |
£2.25 |
£3.15 |
£4.20 |
Total cost |
£3.14 |
£4.08 |
£5.30 |
Profit |
£0.11 |
-£0.58 |
-£0.60 |
*Yes, both eBay and PayPal take a cut of what we charge for P&P. :-(
As you can see, we make a mint on postage ;-)
Well, we break even, every so often there is a parcel that is less expensive and when people buy additional items on eBay we get an extra £1 per item, swings and roundabouts.
Keep in mind that we also insure some parcel at an additional cost of £1.10 within the UK and £5.30 for overseas parcels.
We mostly re-use and recycle packaging materials or we'd be adding between 40p to £2.80 to the P&P charges.
So that 11p to -60p has to cover 5-25 minutes of packing per parcel because every GW item we sell is a different shape and often assembled!
'How to Pack a Parcel' to come...
Lele