If you sell physical products you need to deal with postage prices. Paypal lets you choose between individually setting a postage price for each product, or having the post value set by a rising scale linked to the total order value.

This is fine if all your products have weights in proportion to the selling price, but what if you have very light expensive products, or heavy cheap products? The Paypal postage scale becomes unworkable, and I haven’t even mentioned the problem of UK, European and Worldwide postage differences!

Enough about problems! Here is the solution. Set up a separate Paypal account for the products that don’t fit into your normal postage scale.  

My problem products were American superhero comics. They are very light but old ones can also be very expensive.  Setting individual postage prices doesn’t work, because collectors often buy
multiple comics and they would end up with a ridiculous postage cost. 

I needed a Paypal shopping cart system for the comics, with a separate postage scale that took into account how light the comics are. This is now done and you can  see the resulting effect here;

To set up a separate Paypal account, you need to submit different bank details for verification. I was lucky, I already had a business account for my main Paypal products, and I used my personal account to sell the comics. My comics are my personal collection anyway, so they need to be separate for tax purposes as well.

If you have been stuck with this postage price conundrum I hope this helps.

John McNally