Selling Toys - Horror Stories & "Happy" Customers

The smallest flat rate box through USPS is now $9.45. Medium is $16.10 and they go up quickly from there.

It's near impossible to ship anything other than a letter within the US now for under $10 without some type of discounted rate. It hasn't happened yet, but the rate on the regular postage stamp is expected to go to 95 cents later this year (it's 78 cents now).

As an ebay seller, I offer an instant 25% discount on entire purchase to anyone who buys multiple items from my store in one transaction because I can almost always ship 2 items together for nearly the same price as 1. It's almost impossible to make any profit shipping one item at a time any more.
 
Is that a setting thing to do the discount? I know how to do that for a listing with multiples of that item, but hadn't looked into doing it across my entire inventory.
 
Reno said:
The smallest flat rate box through USPS is now $9.45. Medium is $16.10 and they go up quickly from there.

It's near impossible to ship anything other than a letter within the US now for under $10 without some type of discounted rate. It hasn't happened yet, but the rate on the regular postage stamp is expected to go to 95 cents later this year (it's 78 cents now).

As an ebay seller, I offer an instant 25% discount on entire purchase to anyone who buys multiple items from my store in one transaction because I can almost always ship 2 items together for nearly the same price as 1. It's almost impossible to make any profit shipping one item at a time any more.
Click to expand...

Fuckin' Biden, I guess.
 
Ru1977 said:
Is that a setting thing to do the discount? I know how to do that for a listing with multiples of that item, but hadn't looked into doing it across my entire inventory.
Click to expand...
Yes, it is if you have an ebay store. It's under Marketing/Promotions. You can actually choose specific items from your inventory so that you could exclude someone buying a $400 item and a $10 item together to get the discount, for example. I just apply it to everything.
 
Selling a recent MIB Marvel Legend for retail.

Guy asks if he can have a discount because it would be a 4-Hour round trip for him.

People like this have bugged me for a while so I finally asked why he's even looking at listings that far away, and he said no one near him has it listed.

The funny thing is you can get it on Amazon or the EB website at the same price right now. It's not a rare figure. It's just something I got an extra of because of the paint lottery and I forgot about it so I missed the return window.

But I don't want to tell him it's in stock cuz I'm not doing the work for him so I just told him the price was the price.

And then he complained that it was a 4-Hour round trip. And I finally, finally got to do the Peter Parker: I missed the part where that's my problem.
 
The shipping thing is what it is. It's completely unsustainable for the USPS to keep doing what it's supposed to do without an increase in postage, especially when no one sends paper mail anymore but all of their routes are setup to still deliver it because that's what it was created for. I know the amounts seem high, but check out some other countries' rates. UPS tried to go it alone last year by no longer handing off so-called "last mile" delivery to the USPS and just doing it themselves, but eventually found it was simply not cost-effective for them. It's not cost-effective for anyone, but only one of the delivery companies was mandated by the Constitution to do it anyways.
 
cmoney said:
The shipping thing is what it is. It's completely unsustainable for the USPS to keep doing what it's supposed to do without an increase in postage, especially when no one sends paper mail anymore but all of their routes are setup to still deliver it because that's what it was created for. I know the amounts seem high, but check out some other countries' rates. UPS tried to go it alone last year by no longer handing off so-called "last mile" delivery to the USPS and just doing it themselves, but eventually found it was simply not cost-effective for them. It's not cost-effective for anyone, but only one of the delivery companies was mandated by the Constitution to do it anyways.
Click to expand...

What baffles me in Canada is we have flat rate options, but also I just assume if you're a toy collector you should be pretty familiar with what shipping is going to cost from the various options available to you. Surely you must ship.

And yet anytime I quote shipping, which at this point I have down to the cent with all taxes and extras accounted for, people will balk and act like we are still on $0.10 stamps. Meanwhile I'm over here happily paying 20-30 bucks extra in shipping because I don't have to run around hunting for the thing. Cost benefit right.
 
Ru1977 said:
The only customs I make are poops vaguely in the shape of letters, but I'm willing to part with some for the right price.
Click to expand...
I'm afraid that, since they're out of their original packaging, they won't go for quite as much. But that one where you made the umlaut out of corn could still go for a pretty penny- that was impressive, especially since you hadn't eaten corn all week!
 
Stupid story time lol Long one, putting it in spoilers in case you want to skip on past.

I put up some Hot Toys on a BST Facebook group last week, figured I could make some quick cash. One of them is an Iron Man Mk 7, which is usually in-demand but mine has 2 sets of battle damaged parts instead of 1 set of BD and 1 set of "clean". Anyway, I put $300 on it to see what would happen.

Guy messages me privately. Says he wants to trade with me. I tell him I'm not doing trades, I need some cash.

Him: "I have Witchers, though."

I'm already rubbing my eyes. I ignore. He continues.

Him: "I'll trade both to you for the Iron Man. It's Buzz Toys season 2 and Threezero Season 3 Cavill Witchers."

I finally responded.

Me: "What am I going to do with 2 Witchers?"

Him: "Well you could sell them both and get the same amount you're looking for with the Iron Man."

Me: "So you want me to trade with you, where I will have to wait at least a week for the Witchers to arrive, then I have to inspect them, then I have to list them, and then I have to hope somebody buys them. Or I could just sell the Iron Man now and be done with it."

Him: "I have other stuff."

Me: "Why don't you sell your Witchers and then turn around and buy my Iron Man?"

Him: "Because I don't want money dude, I just really want that Iron Man!"


I ignored him. Next day I get another message.

Him: "I don't want to like pressure you, but I'm going to a collectibles shop this weekend and I'm thinking of taking the Witchers there." I engaged, despite my better judgement.

Me: "Nice! Iron Man is still available, so if you want to buy him after let me know."

Saturday comes. I get another message.

Him: "Just so you know, I kept the Witcher's just in case."

My eyes are beginning to get that familiar look at the back of my skull.

Me: "Great."

Yesterday, I get a message.

Him: "Happy Easter buddy! I hope you and your family are doing well and you're having a wonderful day!"

I blocked him. Probably should have blocked him earlier, but it is what it is lol I don't know what it was with this guy and fucking Witcher, but apparently I'm really missing out, or something. I felt like Regina George, wanting to finally snap and yell STOP TRYING TO MAKE WITCHERS HAPPEN, ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN
 
TheRealSmallville said:
Stupid story time lol Long one, putting it in spoilers in case you want to skip on past.

I put up some Hot Toys on a BST Facebook group last week, figured I could make some quick cash. One of them is an Iron Man Mk 7, which is usually in-demand but mine has 2 sets of battle damaged parts instead of 1 set of BD and 1 set of "clean". Anyway, I put $300 on it to see what would happen.

Guy messages me privately. Says he wants to trade with me. I tell him I'm not doing trades, I need some cash.

Him: "I have Witchers, though."

I'm already rubbing my eyes. I ignore. He continues.

Him: "I'll trade both to you for the Iron Man. It's Buzz Toys season 2 and Threezero Season 3 Cavill Witchers."

I finally responded.

Me: "What am I going to do with 2 Witchers?"

Him: "Well you could sell them both and get the same amount you're looking for with the Iron Man."

Me: "So you want me to trade with you, where I will have to wait at least a week for the Witchers to arrive, then I have to inspect them, then I have to list them, and then I have to hope somebody buys them. Or I could just sell the Iron Man now and be done with it."

Him: "I have other stuff."

Me: "Why don't you sell your Witchers and then turn around and buy my Iron Man?"

Him: "Because I don't want money dude, I just really want that Iron Man!"


I ignored him. Next day I get another message.

Him: "I don't want to like pressure you, but I'm going to a collectibles shop this weekend and I'm thinking of taking the Witchers there." I engaged, despite my better judgement.

Me: "Nice! Iron Man is still available, so if you want to buy him after let me know."

Saturday comes. I get another message.

Him: "Just so you know, I kept the Witcher's just in case."

My eyes are beginning to get that familiar look at the back of my skull.

Me: "Great."

Yesterday, I get a message.

Him: "Happy Easter buddy! I hope you and your family are doing well and you're having a wonderful day!"

I blocked him. Probably should have blocked him earlier, but it is what it is lol I don't know what it was with this guy and fucking Witcher, but apparently I'm really missing out, or something. I felt like Regina George, wanting to finally snap and yell STOP TRYING TO MAKE WITCHERS HAPPEN, ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN
Click to expand...
He's, like, totally obsessed with you.

Men- they only want one thing (Iron Man Hot Toys) and it's disgusting. :rolleyes:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top