I feel your pain on the shipping cost issue... I don't know what's happened in the last year with postage and shipping rates but it's really starting to cost me sales, something that seems to be a "new normal" after decades in mail order and online selling. It's crazy. I recently had a buyer in the UK buy a Louis Armstrong Book Of The Month Club LP set for $10 USD, but shipping killed the deal at $60 USD!Inigo wrote:Ufff... I'd love to have a copy of melancholy baby and the man I love on potato label, if it was issued in this form. But I live in Madrid Spain, so shipping would be very expensive for only one record. My copy of this record is a Spanish issue on the Spanish Regal label. A very interesting copy for historic reasons. Columbia label in Spain was a very different Enterprise from the European labels. It was created by an impresario who made the arrangements with British and American Columbia in 1923 to issue their records in Spain. But the arrangement was done so American Columbia retained the rights for the use of the name Columbia in Spain and our agent should use the brand Regal instead. This Record is Regal RS series, one of the very first numbers in 12 inches. So very interesting. My copy was badly warped, and the sound was not very good. But recently I got a new Stanton 78 stylus with which the record sounds surprisingly good. It was a great surprise.Hailey wrote:I believe that I have a few 12 records with this label if any of you guys are interested.
Inigo.
Yet Amazon can ship stuff for minimal cost, and then there's the USPS "E-Packet" deal with China. THAT is the reason our postage is so high. They are gouging us regular sellers to make up for it.
Media Mail is still good for records in USA but I have to wonder for how long... and, of course, that isn't available for overseas.
It's a real issue.
Different rant, but... I get a feeling that's why lots of really great collectibles are not selling these days.