eBay Tips

[woodwardiocom]

ultraferret writes:
Do you have your sales and shipment system streamlined in any way that might be helpful in inspiring me to get going on actual sales? Do you use a Mail Boxes etc or anyplace like that to pack and ship? Or do you just buy supplies and do it yourself?

-Yah, I do the packing myself. I keep every halfway decent box that enters the house, and I also buy from ULine whenever I need a lot of stuff. (Like, for a few months I was doing nothing but rolled posters, so I bought a box of shipping tubes. Now I'm doing MtG cards, so I bought a bunch of 6" by 6" rigid self-sealing mailers.) I use plastic grocery bags for padding when necessary.

-The streamlining just comes from having the discipline to do it every day at the time appointed. I list five items a day. (You might not need such a rigorous schedule.) I depend a lot on letting eBay, PayPal, and the post office keep my records for me. E.g., the receipts from the PO list the date and destination zip code for every item I mail, so if someone asks, "When did you ship my item?" I just flip through a few receipts to find out. Trusting that the info is there saves me time.

-Oh, and the book eBay Hacks from O'Reilly is worth getting.

Comments

[amelia-g.livejournal.com]

If ebay suspends you for any length of time, though, you are fucked if you are using them to keep your records straight.