In a delimma

really? it says 6.00 for the one i looked at

at the top - not for a single item

it says" pay a maximum of $50.00 for eligible items"

i think it is in combined shipping settings

ok, sorry to have bothered you. all i saw was earrings, and i couldn't see how it would cost $50.00 to ship even 100 pairs. they are pretty - good luck

I try to give everyone the lowest shipping I can. Remember as well, that you are paying in US$ and I am paying in euros which also may make things seem out of skew.
I have never yet been able to send out a package that requires a signature upon receipt, and all mine go out that way, for less than 5.98 euros and that is for one light pair of earrings. If you do the math with today's exchange rates you'll see that that come to about $9.45 for each package. (today's rate is $1.58 = 1 euro). The stamps do not tell the whole story behind the postage costs.

So, I don't think my postage is too, high. Nor is $2 for handling (which I rarely remember to charge, anyway) If you have ordered any of my things, you know how well they are packaged.

Do the math and read carefully before condemning.

I have yet to come out even on S&H and until now have never said a word.

wow. no condeming. just thought it was an error. i am grateful when people point things like that out to me.

I'm not mad or accusing, it's just that I have yet to make a profit on anything I've sold and when I saw you post it hit a nerve. Sorry if I took it out on you sundance. I wasn't my intention. My intention was to clarify.

Sorry,
ewanna

"I have yet to make a profit on anything I've sold"

how so?

between, the cost to make the item, eBay fees, paypal fees and packaging and postage there has been nothing left. being new I didn't know that listing auctions was a bad way to go and all of what I sold through auctions went for either .99 or 1.99.
Then there are the taxes I have to pay, 28% on each items value of sale, including S&H.

And I've only been able to sell by offering radical discounts.

twenty-eight percent, that seems like a lot - they tax exports that high? You'd think they'd wanna encourage exporting.

Yeah, DON'T do 99 or 1.99 or the dreaded .01 -- those are fine once in a while if you have a BIG following who's gonna try to outbid each other on your items. I have a decent sized following and I sometimes end up selling stuff for $2.48 or 6.77 or something dumb like that 'cause it didn't appeal to a lot of different people..

I guess you have to raise your prices to accomodate all the expenses OR find a way to cut the expenses. I get a ton of free packaging - I have friends who work in offices, in America you have to pay to throw away trash so they're perfectly thrilled to give me all the bubble wrap and boxes I wanna pick up..

? you'd pay the same tax on an item you exported to another country as on one you sold domestically? They don't differeniate?

I read about your daughter, I was checking out your me pages. How old is she?

I don't know anything about big crumbs. What about say something like facebook, or flickr (however you spell that)? I did well showing things at Deviantart - a lot of people would check out my auctions. MySpace - that one is good and their blog is indexed quickly - its ALSO the same format as this blog so you can copy and paste from one to the other. I imagine the blog is for promotion, but do you have it registered at any traffic exchanges or anything? A group of like minded artists/artisans sometimes promote each other - I belong to several for dollmakers.

Go right ahead. I'm a mentor on the Etsy site (its a program they have to help new people set up their shops). I like to see fellow artists and artisans getting the recognition for their Craft that they deserve.

Check into some of those sites when you have time - they're all social networking sites you can join free where you could show you art (and link back to here, naturally ;-). I like the Ning network's "Indiepublic" too (indiepublic.com).

Enjoy your lunch.

i dont think it would hurt:)