Well here in 2012 we all love to shop online. Ebay is no longer called Evil-bay, and is our BFF. Buying and selling new and old items, fashion, jewellery, motor bike covers and getting rid of that cabinet your Grandmother gave to you when she sadly passed.
Buying online is wonderful and your goodies (if not too large) will be delivered straight to your door. No more dragging your kids around the shopping centre and losing your 4 year old in Big W. Oh, have only I done that!
All online sellers are asking the same question. What is the cheapest and easiest way of getting their products to you?
Ebay suggest to offer free shipping. That's ok if there is enough of a buffer in your profit by the time you take out their fees, PayPal fees, the cost of bubble wrap and packaging and then you have your shipping labels. Do you include your time it has taken to wrap up the organise the postage of the items? So Ebay is suggesting we offer all of that for free!
Recently we (Madam Charli) has been using Australia Post Click and Send satchels. These have been working well and the satchels can be mailed off at your regular red boxes. Saying that, the satchels have recently attracted a price hike and now are up to $6.20 per 500gram satchel.
Are you ok paying that amount on top of the product you have purchased?
So sitting in our bottom draw is all the vouchers and satchels we had to purchase from other courier companies.Two of those vouchers and three of those vouchers gets your item sent however why is it you always run out of one book of vouchers so you have to buy another one! One benefit with Australia Post, they doesn't make you buy a bunch of satchels all at once. However they do charge you for the satchels when purchasing them on Ebay; very clever indeed!
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