What Section do you list your Shipping Upgrade Listings?

What section do you list your shipping upgrade listings, since they area allowed for the time being...

I've never had listing upgrades before - so I put them under "holiday".

Does it really matter? What is your experience?
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How about not putting them in a section but putting them in your featured items bit so they appear right at the top?
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SpangGangDesigns
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Do you need a shipping upgrade? USPS offers flat rate and regional rate boxes that are cheaper than your standard rate. I would think that your scarves, etc could fit in their boxes. There shouldn't be the need for upgraded shipping costs, should there????

Kind of confused as your bunny, for example, has $7 shipping. USPS has a flat rate shipping for $5.xx with 1-3 day priority shipping, free insurance & tracking, and free supplies.
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I must have missed the announcement about shipping upgrades being valid items in a shop, anyone have a link to this?
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unless the rules have changed recently shipping upgrades can NOT be listed as items at all. period
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shipping upgrade listings are allowed as of beginning of october i think
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KC - the rules have changed and shipping upgrades are now a-okay

I have mine listed in a separate section, so it's easy to see.
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Etsy announced recently that they're no longer enforcing the ban on shipping upgrades. The announcement was made on the forums so if you don't read them you wouldn't have seen it (I just happened to stumble on a link someone else posted, which is how I found out). Here's the link. It's in the second highlighted post.

https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/12988570/page/1
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Thank you for that link Judy! I had read the part about them testing the new shipping upgrade prototype, but hadn't seen that later message.

That is an interesting response, I would have assumed the answer would have been to make a custom order for the customer with the service they were requesting, perhaps even to refund and set up a custom listing with all of the fees in one.

Not like they were actually enforcing the rule anyways, there were thousands of shipping upgrade listings available when it was banned.

A listing for shipping upgrade doesn't really solve any problem anyways, customers are not likely to understand it, find it, and buy it when applicable. Which leads to the delay in communication and payment, which is the real issue.

It is nice to hear they understand it is a problem they need to address at least!
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InspiredByMocha
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Well look at that. I definitely got an email from Etsy after my first Christmas selling telling me that they were going to shut down my shop because of my upgrade listings. And I'd only done them because I'd seen other people do it.

Huh.

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wow thanks everyone for filling me, im banned from the forums (made too many jokes about an old scandal) so i missed it.
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