TreasureHunters
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When you list do you do shipping cost or do you add it into starting price and offer free shipping?
It depends on the item, what it is worth, how much they have sold for, how much it weighs, how much it will cost to ship, etc.
Sometimes I use it to help market an item for more than it is worth.
For instance, I bought 6 toy train switches in a box of cheap track for $2. The switches in completed sales were not selling at 4.99 to 5.99 plus shipping. Since I know the toy train market, I took the few pieces off of the switches and sold them as used original repair parts. I sold 2 nuts for 6.99 with free shipping. Postage was 65 cents a package. I had about 6 sets of those nuts.
(FWIW, I sold the switches at the flea market for $4 each after I stripped the nuts off of them, and sold packs of 10 pieces of track for $4 each, and the nuts on ebay for 6.99. I made about $82 total from that box that other sellers would have said was worthless.)
The free shipping added a bonus to the buyer, strengthening the value of my item, and barely cost me a thing to ship.