Comments on: Best Ebay Shipping Practices http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/03/best-ebay-shipping-practices My commentary on Tech News, Starting a business, Ebay, and Everyday Life Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brady http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/03/best-ebay-shipping-practices#comment-519 Brady Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:48:51 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/03/best-ebay-shipping-practices#comment-519 Yeah, I've been using a 50lb dual mode scale for around a half year now on ebay and it really did cut down on the number of times I ripped myself off on shipping. I guess we're just too nice underpricing our shipping constantly. ;) But really the only thing I get ripped on now is shipping supplies. When I sold an LCD last week I didn't think about the cost of buying a sufficiently large box to ship it in would cost me $11 at the UPS store plus another $5 for bubblewrap (They won't honor insurance on anything packed in just packing peanuts for reference). My new policy is to buy all packing materials for large items and prepack them before listing so I can nail down actual shipping cost to exactly what it costs. Of course with smaller items its not an issue. I just toss them in a free USPS priority box with some packing material and off they go. With priority I just have to round the weight up to the nearest pound and slap a free label on it. Yeah, I’ve been using a 50lb dual mode scale for around a half year now on ebay and it really did cut down on the number of times I ripped myself off on shipping. I guess we’re just too nice underpricing our shipping constantly. ;) But really the only thing I get ripped on now is shipping supplies. When I sold an LCD last week I didn’t think about the cost of buying a sufficiently large box to ship it in would cost me $11 at the UPS store plus another $5 for bubblewrap (They won’t honor insurance on anything packed in just packing peanuts for reference). My new policy is to buy all packing materials for large items and prepack them before listing so I can nail down actual shipping cost to exactly what it costs.

Of course with smaller items its not an issue. I just toss them in a free USPS priority box with some packing material and off they go. With priority I just have to round the weight up to the nearest pound and slap a free label on it.

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