Expert: Marvinator - 3/19/2004

Question
When you sell on ebay how do you find out how much the shipping would cost for an item?

Answer
First, you will need the shipping weight of the item.  Most times, people will take the item to the post office in a box and have it weighed (always remember to include both the box AND packing material when weighing the item).  

A lot of the professional sellers will have a postal scale at their disposal (postal scales are very accurate) and they will weigh the item themselves.  

Once you have the weight, you can get rates for any of the main shippers from their websites.  www.usps.com, www.dhl.com, www.fedex.com and www.ups.com.  Most of them have a "rate calculator" which you can input the destination and get a fairly accurate reading on the total shipping.  

I hope this helps.