My 'business' is thriving. I listed 11 items on ebay last night and today and one sold. Can someone remind me how I get 3x on the shipping using my CIP (can I use CIC for better)? I am assuming that is the best deal on shipping.
What have we come to? There’s a 10% eBay Bucks promo going on and we’re not buying anymore, we’re selling! Meanwhile, eBay laid off 300 people yesterday. Clearly they’ve made some poor decisions.
Anyway, two things.
First, make sure you’ve added your CIP to your eBay account so that monthly invoices for seller’s fees are charged to your CIP, not PayPal or some other card that’s not as rewarding. The CIP earns you 3x on eBay seller’s fees, which takes some of the hurt out of the 10% that eBay takes from your sales.
Second, the CIP can earn you 3x on eBay shipping through PayPal (but the CIC will not earn you 5x).
eBay shipping is routed through PayPal, so you need to set up eBay Inc Shipping in PayPal to deduct from your CIP. In your PayPal account, go to settings (the widget icon), click on Payments, find Pre-approved payments, click Manage pre-approved payments, make sure eBay Inc Shipping is tied to your CIP and not your bank account or any other accounts, because it’ll be set to automatically deduct from whatever payment method is selected. If eBay Inc Shipping is connected to some other account, delete it and set it up again to deduct from the CIP.
And because PayPal tends to deduct from any PayPal balance first, you should transfer out the full balance of your PayPal account to your bank before creating a shipping label on eBay if you want to pay with your CIP, or else eBay will deduct the shipping cost from your PayPal balance.
Hope this helps. It took me a long while to figure it out on my end. The email Receipt for Your Payment to eBay Inc Shipping should show a charge to your CIP last 4-digit number under Funding Sources Used.