@aviationwidow wrote:
I'm sure I can do all this when buying the satchels at the Post office with the added bonus of being not forced to pay by Paypal.
When you process a shipping label via eBay, the charge is added onto your eBay bill, so you can pay via any method that's accepted by eBay (automatic billing via credit/debit card or PayPal, one-off payments via bank deposit, and I think they still accept cheques / money orders), so you're not forced to pay by PayPal.
I use eBay to buy/print labels a few times a week, and while I try to avoid credit as much as possible (which the label system essentially provides in the short term), it has come in handy a few times when I had more packages than normal to send out (the vast majority of my items go as letters, but sometimes I'll get a few want express - which has to be a parcel, so that's minimum $10+ each one - and/or some larger orders, so those postage costs can add up quick when you've suddenly got a half-dozen or so in one day), and the payment for postage ultimately comes directly from the buyer's payment (because I pay off my eBay account frequently with one-off payments), rather than from the cash I have on hand (which can occasionally be limited 
).
There are some other, minor time saving features, some which would likely be of more benefit to some sellers and not others (eg today I had to ship an order containing nearly 40 items. If I have to add the tracking number to an order like that manually, I either have to take the easy way and just add it to one item, or do it 40 times, eBay automatically adds the number to every item, which I prefer (for neatness if nothing else).
The cost of the label printing I could do without, as the page-use isn't exactly economical (one label per A4 page, even though it basically uses a quarter of it), but I re-use the rest for other things, and print on the lowest quality setting that will allow a readable (scan-able) barcode.
@digital*ghost wrote:
@aviationwidow wrote:
I'm sure I can do all this when buying the satchels at the Post office with the added bonus of being not forced to pay by Paypal.
When you process a shipping label via eBay, the charge is added onto your eBay bill, so you can pay via any method that's accepted by eBay (automatic billing via credit/debit card or PayPal, one-off payments via bank deposit, and I think they still accept cheques / money orders), so you're not forced to pay by PayPal.
I use eBay to buy/print labels a few times a week, and while I try to avoid credit as much as possible (which the label system essentially provides in the short term), it has come in handy a few times when I had more packages than normal to send out (the vast majority of my items go as letters, but sometimes I'll get a few want express - which has to be a parcel, so that's minimum $10+ each one - and/or some larger orders, so those postage costs can add up quick when you've suddenly got a half-dozen or so in one day), and the payment for postage ultimately comes directly from the buyer's payment (because I pay off my eBay account frequently with one-off payments), rather than from the cash I have on hand (which can occasionally be limited
There are some other, minor time saving features, some which would likely be of more benefit to some sellers and not others (eg today I had to ship an order containing nearly 40 items. If I have to add the tracking number to an order like that manually, I either have to take the easy way and just add it to one item, or do it 40 times, eBay automatically adds the number to every item, which I prefer (for neatness if nothing else).
The cost of the label printing I could do without, as the page-use isn't exactly economical (one label per A4 page, even though it basically uses a quarter of it), but I re-use the rest for other things, and print on the lowest quality setting that will allow a readable (scan-able) barcode.
Print landscape, you get 2 then.
