Morning all, i put some blank cards on my page yesterday, but charging postage is a problem, the cards are £1.25, but postage is £1.65 while second class is 85p, how do i make the cards more available without charging people too much
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It’s a tough call these days with all the postal increases, particularly for low-ticket items. You could offer them in packs of 3 or 5 maybe? Or set the ‘additonal item’ postage to zero and make a point of mentioning in item descriptions, social media posts, etc. that you offer combined postage.
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Not an answer to you question Deborah but just to let you know that on the cat card description you have blamk card instead of blank card 
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I absolutely feel your pain as I make a lot of cards and the postage is a huge issue. I send second class to try and keep the cost down but it’s not ideal. 6 x 6 cards are classed as large letter which pushes the cost up to £1.55 second class and if a customer adds another card or two this then pushes the postage into the next weight bracket £1.90 or £2.30. Also you pay commission through PayPal and stripe (not folksy) on postage. I’ve faffed around with this for ages and have plumped for 80p for small cards and £1.65 for larger ones with 40p extra for each additional card. I have offered free additional postage in the past but I had one customer who ordered 10 cards which were a small parcel cost!
Also if a customer pays too much postage I refund the difference.
Sorry to waffle on but it’s such a huge issue!
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Hahaha thanks for letting me know x
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haha thanks for letting me know, will correct it
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Hi Deborah, I just had a look at (Blank card with print of an original painting c... - Folksy) (very pretty) and at the moment the postage is set at zero. I know you say in the listing that there will be a charge of 85p for a single card, but at the moment they wouldn’t be charged any postage and you may well run into problems adding that on afterwards. As you have a plus account, I think you would be best making two listings for each design. One for a single card with the postage added on and one for a pack of 5 with free postage. In the descriptions, add ‘also available to purchase as a single card’ or ‘also available in packs of 5 with free postage’ as appropriate.
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