What is the hardest part for you in the reselling game?

[Minrelica]

Edit

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Upgraded Night Vision Monocular Digital Infrared Monocular Telescope for 100% Darkness with 8X Zoom - Grab it through Amazon!

[Iron Patch]

My problem isn't so much of a problem, it's that I can't keep up. I tend to burn through cash very fast, and find myself often needing the next sale to end, but at the same time I have a lot of stuff just sitting here that could be on. I'm glad the holiday is close so I have a chance to regroup and maybe tweak things a bit.

 

[dejapooh]

My service level is second to none and that sounds like a big hassle... You can figure out shipping costs at home... as you stated.. EASY EASY EASY

Well, it was never easy for me. Many times I guess on shipping and turn out to be right. If I am not sure, I go in and ask. All in all, for me, taking the work out of my hands has been a life saver. My shipping speed and all ratings have gone up, my work time has gone down. All in all, it is a real winner.

 

[baspinall]

Hardest part for me is paying Ebay's rip off fees!

 

[diggummup]

Hardest part for me is paying Ebay's rip off fees!

They are no worse than the local auction house, except you have a much larger audience. No prob. with fees myself, cost of doing business.

As for shipping fee estimations, it's easy as long as you have a postal scale and this link- DMM Notice 123 Price List

 

[Iron Patch]

I hate seeing the bill I rack up in fees, but you look at it transaction by transaction and if you're making a decent % the fees shouldn't be an issue. I wish my fees were 100k a month!

 

[clorox]

Taking pictures is my biggest hurdle. I'm too critical of my photos, and I have a hard time putting something up for sale with just decent photos. Also, I really hate it when something doesn't sell and I have to re-list it.

 

[SharkBait]

I love the hunt but I hate listing.

 

[billjustbill]

Finding packing material. Hard to keep the shipping cost down when you have to buy the packing material. Even for comics the cost to pack in the right material and shipping sometimes is more than the item.

Packing material depends a lot on the what's being sent, but I learned a creative answer from an ebay seller... I bought a cast iron muffler about 8" in diameter built like two pie plates with their widest flanges flipped on top of each other and with spacers for the exhaust gap. Fitting our old family heirloom Hit-and-Miss engine I'm rebuilding, the muffler had the original 1-1/4" by 10" pipe stem threaded into it and all of it weighed heavily !

What the seller did is take 2-liter plastic soda bottles and depress/dish-in each of them a little more than half way along their length before he tightly replaced all screw on lids. Taping around and around three or four soda bottles placed radially around the muffler assembly, it had an air suspension ride inside the shipping box stuffed with newspaper... I just laughed out loud at his "creativity and low shipping budget" when I looked at the undamaged shipping box and I saw how well it worked!!

 

[Keppy]

For my odd shaped items i go to Walmart or Kmart or home depot..... And get there 4FT x 4FT flat cardboard that comes on the pallet.......... And make my own box's ... Works great and a very low cost for my box's.... Free except for my time..........