How do I get started selling on Ebay?

Jstpssng · May 19, 2021

fried1765 said:
Shipping price on a 45Lb. vice could be interesting.

UPS. I just returned a 30lb Chinese winch/scrap iron. (It was Junk, I was stupid to buy it in the first place.)
Return shipping cost me around $26.00.

fried1765 · May 19, 2021

Jstpssng said:
UPS. I just returned a 30lb Chinese winch/scrap iron. (It was Junk, I was stupid to buy it in the first place.)
Return shipping cost me around $26.00.

I just sent both my two stage Smith regulators, and torch to ATL for refurbishment.
17lb. 16 oz. .... USPS ..... $40.40,.... not even priority!
Ridiculous price!

California · May 19, 2021

tallyho8 said:
When you sell an item on eBay they notify you of the sale and then notify you when it has been paid for. The buyer pays eBay directly through PayPaL or a few other choices. Then you can click a link they send you and print the label with the postage at a discounted rate from regular USPS prices. Then eBay will subtract the cost of their fees and the shipping from your money and put the balance in your checking account.

Thanks!

I went and read through Ebay's Printing Shipping Label description and learned the process is now simple, like you describe. Ebay now offers to print the label and provide postage at the time they send you the Sold notice.

Those features required subscribing to a third-party service the last time I sold anything so I had always gone in person to Post Office or UPS pick-up site. This capability now built-in in Ebay, is a great improvement. (Surely there are some costs not listed in Ebay's summary, no?)

Rip Van Winkle, here.

tallyho8 · May 19, 2021

California said:
Thanks!

I went and read through Ebay's Printing Shipping Label description and learned the process is now simple, like you describe. Ebay now offers to print the label and provide postage at the time they send you the Sold notice.

Those features required subscribing to a third-party service the last time I sold anything so I had always gone in person to Post Office or UPS pick-up site. This capability now built-in in Ebay, is a great improvement. (Surely there are some costs not listed in Ebay's summary, no?)

Rip Van Winkle, here.

The deal is that eBay saves you a little on postage so they raised their fees a little so that you almost pay the same amount but eBay gets more than before.

Ever since they started charging no fees for listing most items and only fees if you sold it, I have found it to be a good deal. Years ago I had to pay for a classified ad in the newspaper even if the item never sold. Craigslist is an even better deal if you don't mind all the lookers coming by just to see the item with no real intention of buying. And now a seller can list items on eBay, Craigslist and other sites and if he sells it elsewhere he can cancel the eBay listing even if there are bids on it without any penalties.

California · May 19, 2021

tallyho8 said:
... And now a seller can list items on eBay, Craigslist and other sites and if he sells it elsewhere he can cancel the eBay listing even if there are bids on it without any penalties.

That's good to know. A genuine improvement for the sellers.

Oaktree · May 20, 2021

Jstpssng said:
UPS. I just returned a 30lb Chinese winch/scrap iron. (It was Junk, I was stupid to buy it in the first place.)
Return shipping cost me around $26.00.

You got off easy. A few months ago I had to ship a piece of electronic gear out for repair, and the bill came to over $90. Roughly same weight. This was UPS via Staples. The closest UPS depot is only open to the public from 5-6:30pm. Yes, you read that right.

Jstpssng · May 20, 2021

Oaktree said:
You got off easy. A few months ago I had to ship a piece of electronic gear out for repair, and the bill came to over $90. Roughly same weight. This was UPS via Staples. The closest UPS depot is only open to the public from 5-6:30pm. Yes, you read that right.

The depot where I dropped mine off was advertised as 4:00 to 5:00... and it's 60 miles away. After planning my day around being there on time I got there and found that "Due to Covid, hours are 4:30 to 5:30.

California · May 20, 2021

Jstpssng said:
The depot where I dropped mine off was advertised as 4:00 to 5:00... and it's 60 miles away. After planning my day around being there on time I got there and found that "Due to Covid, hours are 4:30 to 5:30.

Do you have the $5 UPS fee to come pick up at your place, or, in your case, can you take it to your nearest business they visit on their route? That works for me to avoid that fee. It's simple to create a UPS account to pre-pay, so then any way you can get it into UPS's possession will work.

I've specified a friend's business as my delivery address to avoid the 'home delivery' fee on heavy items.

Jstpssng · May 20, 2021

California said:
Do you have the $5 UPS fee to come pick up at your place, or, in your case, can you take it to your nearest business they visit on their route? That works for me to avoid the fee.

I've specified a friend's business as my delivery address to avoid the 'home delivery' fee.

I could have don that but wasn't sure about packaging and planned to let them do it... they were a UPS "Packaging" depot after all.

Except that they aren't... merely a place to drop packages off.