eBay Selling

Like I mentioned with delivery confirmation, there are a lot of circumstances when spending extra money on a package just isn’t warranted. The same is certainly true for postal insurance. If you ship through USPS, you have the option to send items with or without insurance. If you have an item that is easily replaceable and inexpensive to ship, there really isn’t any need to insure it. There are buyers that insist on every item they buy being insured, but if you don’t offer insurance in your listing, you are not obligated to insure anything. You can send the item as it is, and in the very rare circumstance that something happens to it, simply send another or refund.

If you sell 50 inexpensive items a month (worth $50 or less) and buy insurance for all of them, you are paying $85 a month for insurance. If you ship 50 of these same items and one of them goes astray, you will pay only the refund costs of the one item.

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