Postage Costs and Discounts

We offer fantastic postage discounts - BEWARE sellers who don't!
If any listing (ours or anyone else's) does not state
'DISCOUNT AVAILABLE'
beside the postage then the amount stated will be charged and there is
NO POSTAGE DISCOUNT

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How does your postage discount policy work?

How much postage will I pay for my order?

What packaging materials have I chosen for my parcel?

To which address will my parcel be sent?

We now require ALL buyers to purchase postal insurance

Postal insurance is not available to all countries

Estimate your postage costs online

• All Goodly Bits listings on eBay, unless otherwise stated in the listing, indicate the postage, packaging, insurance and handling costs to your destination - Scroll down to "Postage, payment details, and return policy" in the listing if postage to your destination is not listed under the item price.
   

• All discounts for combined postage are also stated in the listings. If a listing does not state that a postage discount is available for that item (beside the postage charge quoted under the price), then it is excluded from our normally offered postage discount (shown below).
  In these cases, the full postage will be charged for that item.

• To receive postage discounts, you must combine your items into a single order on eBay (see "Auction Conditions")

• Postal Insurance is mandatory. We expect that you would not want to accept responsibility for what Australia Post does to your parcel - and neither do we.

• We know that buyers don't like to hear this, but it's a simple fact of life and we would ask you, to please remember that the postage costs stated include packaging and handling and insurance. In reality, these costs are, for small items, larger than the cost of the postage alone. We encourage buyers to purchase multiple items because we can then pass on the full cost savings of bulk postage, packaging, handling and insurance.

• Pick-up of items is not available unless otherwise stated.
   

• Our postage discount system works like this:
  For smaller items where (discount available) is stated by eBay beside the postage, you will be charged only the first (highest) postage charge for combined items up to the relevant packed-weight limit (up to a total of 10 kg within Sydney, 2 kg elsewhere in Australia or 1 kg outside Australia). All additional items up to this combined weight are posted FREE. When your order reaches this limit, or if  the item weight is specified in our "Postage Section", postage is discounted as follows:
  
  For larger, heavier  items, where we have stated a weight and / or size in our "Postage" section, your postage cost will be calculated by weight (or size) according to your destination and charged at cost (costs include the actual costs of packaging and handling). You will receive the full benefits of combined postage and pay only a single very reasonable packaging and handling charge that is at or below the actual cost of packaging materials and handling.

• The costs of postage, packaging materials, handling, insurance and tracking that are stated in the listing include the following packaging materials:
  1) Items sold in boxes that would normally be discarded by the purchaser will be wrapped in packaging paper and sealed with packaging tape only.
  2) Fragile items or items sold in boxes that would normally be expected to be retained by the purchaser will be wrapped in two layers of 10 mm bubble wrap with an outer wrapping of packaging paper, sealed with tape.
  Please remember that you are the owner of the parcel and that you contract us to pack the parcel and hand it, on your behalf, to Australia Post for delivery to you by Australia Post and/or your own countries postal service. We expect that you would not want to accept responsibility for what Australia Post does to your parcel - and likewise we do not accept responsibility for what Australia Post does to YOUR parcel. If you agree that this packaging to be adequate, simply proceed with your purchase at the stated price, otherwise, you may choose from the following additional packaging options:
     * Corrugated cardboard box: $5.00 plus any extra postage due to weight
     * Shredded paper packing to a thickness of 25 mm: $2.00 plus any extra postage due to weight.
  We regret to have to make these charges, but most eBay buyers are not willing to pay for any packaging materials for their own parcels. As you can see from our feedback, the basic packaging materials provided in the basic stated costs of pp&h price are considered by most to be perfectly adequate - but this is still your decision.

• It is your responsibility to ensure that your parcel is correctly addressed! Fair warning: most eBay buyers do not have a registered postal address that conforms to Australia Post's requirements! We will only post to your registered eBay address as it appears on your invoice - we do not re-type addresses, so any mistakes are your own and of your own choosing - so please get it right!
   

• In order to fully protect buyers against loss or damage in the mail, we now REQUIRE that ALL orders be posted WITH INSURANCE. This provides protection and peace-of-mind for all parties involved and does not usually represent a significant charge.  Insurance on parcels outside Australia is an estimate only and some additional payment may be required for large or expensive orders. Please note that older listings include insurance as an "option" - this is no longer the case and the stated insurance will be charged. If it were possible to change all these listings now, we would - we do not want to appear to mislead buyers in any way.  feeBay, however, does not facilitate such global changes and we have to update over 400 listings manually, one by one. These changes follow global changes to buyer protection and eBay policies made by eBay and PayPal themselves.

• Insurance up to $100 is included in the basic fee (AU$2.75, Registered Mail). Additional Postal Insurance of $1.25 (within Australia) or approximately AU$9.50 plus AU$2.15 (Outside Australia) will be added for every $100 (or part thereof) in purchases over the initial $100.
  These are costs quoted by Australia Post as of June 2008.
  
   

• Postage by ordinary Air Mail to the following countries cannot be insured  - so if you live in one of these countries we cannot post to you by ordinary Air Mail and we would ask you to contact us for other delivery methods or to not bid:
  Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Canada, Chile, East Timor, Ecuador, Germany, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Uruguay, Yemen, Zimbabwe
  This is not an exhaustive list - Insurance may not be available to other countries -
  please ask us to call Australia Post or check if you are unsure. If a buyer, from a country that does not provide insurance, buys an item without asking us to confirm postage, we may choose to use Registered Air Mail at the same cost as insured Air Mail or we may require Insured Express International or Insured Express Courier International at additional cost.

• Estimate your postage costs here:
  * Within Australia  - please remember to add insurance and approximately $3.50¹ to contribute towards the actual costs of handling and packaging materials. Lodgement postcode is 2774, destination postcode is your postcode. This will provide an estimate only. Postal method is Registered Mail.
  * Outside Australia - please remember to add insurance and approximately $4.50¹ to contribute towards the actual costs of handling and packaging materials. This will provide an estimate only for delivery to your country. Postal method is Insured Air Mail. In some cases, other methods may be offered if available. Sea Mail will not be provided under any circumstances.
  1. Packaging and handling may cost slightly more for some larger, bulkier, fragile or custom-ordered items. We have job vacancies for all buyers who believe that this is unreasonable: Pay is $0.00/hr, supply own packing materials.

If you are in any doubt about the postage discount that you will receive or any other conditions, including insurance requirements, you are strongly encouraged to ask for clarification before bidding.

 

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