June 15, 2007 | 03:44PM PST/PT
***eBay Live! 2007 - Shipping news*** Hi everyone. This is Kristina Klausen. If you've watched the webcast of Bill Cobb's Keynote, you already know the exciting news from UPS – they're offering a UPS Special Pricing Program for eBay Sellers! I'm here now to share the details.
UPS is offering the eBay selling community the opportunity to receive UPS's Daily Pickup rate, with no minimum volumes and no commitments. This program offers a savings of up to 31% for eBay packages shipped using the PayPal label printing solution, and is offered to eBay sellers who are currently paying non-discounted UPS published rates.
To get in on the savings, sellers need to go to
www.ebay.com/ups.
There you can:
1. Sign up for the UPS Special Pricing Program.
2. Get a UPS account.
3. Learn how to change your account preferences in the PayPal label printing solution in order to have the discounts apply to your shipping labels.
The new lower rates will apply to packages shipped during the week following your sign-up for the UPS Special Pricing Program. (Sign-up must be completed by Friday at 8 a.m. EST to apply to the following Monday's shipments). More information about the program is included in our
Frequently Asked Questions.
Sellers who use the eBay Shipping Calculator in their listings to automatically calculate ZIP to ZIP delivery rates can modify their eBay preferences to have the Special Pricing Program reflected in their listings. Just change your UPS settings to "Daily Rates." Please read
our FAQs for more details.
Price + Shipping Sort Bill also mentioned an important test underway. We’ve all been frustrated by excessive shipping and handling charges. Price + Shipping Sort is a new search option that sorts search results according to the total cost of the item, including shipping and handling charges. That way, buyers can choose to have the full price picture sorted by either highest total cost or lowest total cost.
We will be testing this over coming weeks with a small sample of eBay buyers. If our tests are successful, we expect to roll the Price + Shipping sort option out more broadly. Stay tuned.
Sincerely,
Kristina Klausen
Senior Director, Shipping
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