Just sold my first ever item, and I want to make sure shipping is done right

[deadlyblade21]

The product I sold had a height of 12mm and weighs approximately 3 grams (very light), and I will be shipping it using bubble padded bags. I'm placing 2 70c stamps ($1.40 worth) on the bag and will finally be placing it in one of those red PO boxes accross the street.  Is this all correct and good to go? Thanks 🙂

[clarry100]

We print our own address labels.

We have purchased a Brother QL-500 label printer that does one label at a time. We buy labels on rolls of 800 (DK-11209 labels).

We just coppy/paste the buyer address from the sales record (after payment this equals the PayPal address you need to use) onto our label template and print and stick onto the envelope. No handwriting needed.

[stampingpaws]

Congratulations on your first sale. You must be pleased.

I too sell small light items (Stamp Albums on CD as a PDF file in a paper sleeve. I use Padded envelopes, hand write the address from the Order Details, use 2 70 cent stamps stuck to the envelope and post in the Red Box outside our local post office, which is in the shopping centre I visit nearly every day.

I have only had 1 item not received in 3 years (It was when half of England was under water) so I just sent another.

I offer world wide "FREE" postage. I just determined the average postage over a few months to all destinations and added that to the item value. Gets rid of partial refunds if they buy 2 or more and pay separately before I can amend the invoice.

Best wishes

[cherry*135]

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@deadlyblade21 wrote:

Awesome, thank you! and great idea about the user ID

One more thing, would you guys prefer the ebay labels or handwriting the name and addresses of customers?

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If you don't have any labels for printer or label writing machine just hand write the address on the envelope. I don't think buyers mind either way.. as long as their item gets to them  in the  condition as described that is mainly what they care about.

[cq_tech]

Congratulations on your first sale, and now that you're selling, you might understand exactly what's involved and when leaving feedback, you hopefully won't be as quick to leave negative or neutral feedback as you have been in the past.

You should always contact your seller before leaving anything less than a positive, and only ever leave negative or neutral feedback (which is now the same as a neg, in case you didn't know) if the seller is definitely at fault and the situation can't be resolved.

Same with DSRs. Low DSRs can be every bit as bad as negative feedback, and too many defects as a seller will have eBay rescind your selling privileges permanently (and when eBay says permanently, that's exactly what they mean).

[davidc4430]

if you were paid with paypal most likely you wont get your money for 21 days regardless of when your buyer recieves your item, isnt that worth celebrating?