Why do sellers use the expensive E Bay GSP? shipping.
When they have the inexpensive Tracked PWE option for cheaper cards. As I am an international buyer this system has stopped me from buying a lot of cards that i wanted to purchase.
I have sometimes asked sellers to use another system but Hell No I might miss out. ( There is too much E Bay rigmarole to chase a missing $1 or $2 card )
On what a $1 or $2 card, I do buy low value cards and over time except for covid (and NZ Post was the culprit )have never had any hassles or lost a purchase.
The E Bay GSP has stopped my buying completely.
Mabey this a good thing as I am actually saving money LOL
Is there another sysyem out there somewere that I do not know about.

Here in the USA, we can send single cards via international 1st class for $1.65, but there is no tracking available. Same with 1st class international large envelope. I use that $1.65 all the time off of Ebay.

If you don't upload tracking on a card sale on Ebay, then sellers get docked for "Tracking uploaded on time and validated". This hurts a sellers ability to be a top rated or power seller.

I checked package rates for the USPS, and the cheapest package rate for us to mail anything out of the country is $17.85 for group 1 and as high as $22.50 for group 9. That's for 1-8 ounces.

I have used USPS rates to help international buyers when they ask. It depends, but sometimes the USPS rates are cheaper than the GSP rates. I tell the buyer I will adjust postage, or give a discount on the items and just upload tracking from the USPS package.

Only issue with this is there are only 20 countries listed that get international tracking from sender to recipient. New Zealand is one of those countries that get tracking all the way.

But for single cards, being a top rated seller, I have to keep my "Tracking uploaded on time and validated" at 95% or higher. So I can understand why sellers of single cards, who are top rated, only use GSP.

The ESE (Ebay Standard Envelope) that you can use to ship single cards, that tracking number is no good outside of the USA. Pretty sure it can't be tracked outside the USA. The barcode that is sprayed at the bottom of the letter for tracking is actually the zip + 4 + 2 for USA addresses. There are 11 numbers in that barcode, 5 for the zip code, 4 for the + 4 (which tells machinery what street in the zip code the letter is going to, then the + 2 (which tells machinery which house on the street the letter is to be delivered too).

So pretty sure this can't be adapted to international addresses since each country addresses stuff differently.

Ok got it at last so E Bay PWE with tracking is only available in the USA not International.
Wich is were I went wrong I was under the impression that it was international only.
Here in NZ tracking is at a horrendous price have not done any for a few years but quiet a while ago it was NZ $36 approx $18 US for a standard envelope to be sent international shipping, plus the shipping cost.
Since then shipping costs have increased so probably a lot higher now
Thank You