Selling help

slapstickjim said

Thanks everyone. This is where I'm at. I'm looking into paypal account of course this mean I need to do some sort online banking. So I'm looking into all that. And shipping those us post office boxes would work great for smalls. When I get the paypal up I'll try seling here. Might be alil bit , but I'm going to try this. I'll be back.

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I have a PayPal account, I use it to get paid. I also have a PayPal debit card, I use it to pay for shipping for the items I sell. I also have a FedEx account and use FedEx to ship larger items. I set up my FedEx account to withdraw my fees from my PayPal account.

I “dumpster dive” for larger boxes, I drive through warehouse areas and construction sites looking for boxes. I put an ad in our local community sites asking for folks who are tossing their swimming pool solar covers to let me know when they put them out and I go pick them up. Many, many square feet of free bubble wrap. I go to the carpet store and get free carpet tubes to ship trim, torsion bars, and other items that will fit in them. They’re very sturdy, and free. I try to keep shipping costs to just the actual shipping. Yes, I have about 300 boxes up in the attic of my shop.

When I list something, I almost always have it already in a box. Not officially packed and ready to ship because I may have to take additional pics of something, but close enough to weigh for a shipping quote. I never list more than 6 items at a time, I find it too hard to deal with more items than that, mostly because I also have a day job.