Need Help With Selling Crafts Online

I bought a postage scale for that reason. I got mine off of eBay pretty cheap, I think it was $18 plus shipping. Less than $30 total though. It is great. I always know exactly how much something weighs and you can go to usps.com and figure out the shipping cost from there.

My husband sold some games on e-bay and he did what you are thinking about. He would take the games to the post office and weigh them. Online the post office has something that will compute the cost for you. You enter the weight and maybe the box size. The post office also has boxes available. Good Luck!

Hello carolbee. I think that if you are at some special site for selling things, you will be able to find some mailing serivce to match it for your convenience. I wish your business a successful one, my dear friend.

I go into the post office and have them weigh and tell me the cost of mailing an item. I don't have a huge variety of crafts and so that worked for me. The postage goes by the weight of the item. After a couple of different things you can get a fairly good guesstimate. I could be wrong but I think there is something on E-bay that can help you with the shipping costs of various items.

You could ship everything Priority Mail. If you measure everything out, you can order Priority boxes from the Post Office (they are free). The Post Office charges by the box size the Priority level, so you'll basically know what items can pack in which boxes and what the shipping costs for that particular box will be. Shipping priority may cost a little more to the customer (in their mind), but if you have to purchase specific sized boxes and factor those costs into your fees, you'll find the customer is probably getting away cheaper with Priority shipping. Hope this suggestion gives you a different option to consider. Take care!!

Check out www.usps.com. I order boxes and can print out postage from there. I use PayPal also, so when one of my customers uses PayPal also, I can send out an invoice from there and then it can take me to print out shipping (either USPS or the other ones)... Weight is important, but the size and shape of the item matter also. It can add to the postage. It's a vicious cycle... You can get postal scales pretty cheaply these days also. I recommend you get one but try to make sure it can come with one of those "pans" that you can put over it for those loose items that you will be shipping all together, especially if you decide to cut the customer a deal in shipping for purchasing over a certain amount of products. Don't eat the shipping if you can help it. The money you eat in shipping could have been put to a better use down the road... scales, boxes, wraps, etc. You can also order free boxes online from the USPS site. Talk to your local postmaster first though. He may be able to give you a few until your order comes in.

I'll have to check it out.......I haven't sold anything online but I don't have the time to promote them either like some people do...creationsbyrobin seems to be able to sell her jewelry so maybe she'll come up with something new to do...I'd be interested to know too!

I would go to the post office and ask them what would be best. They have shipping where you can put as much as you want in a certain sized box for $2.99. You can take some losses, but why? Break even or make money would be much better than taking losses. You may need that money some day and once gone, it doesn't come back.

I think you should weigh the item, price the boxes before posting the shipping charges. Go check out your local post office website. They should tell you what much each boxes and the weigh of each item costs.