SHIPPING FOR BEGINNERS! How to Ship From Home Selling on eBay + Ground Advantage USPS Update

So much research for something that seems simple and I'm still confused. I feel like I need to know how to ship before I can start listing. Cause, assuming I get a sale, I need to be ready.

Maybe I should just jump right in and expect the worst, pray for the best. 🤔

What if they don’t have the sizes for the package

Question- I am confused…. The Priority flat rate padded envelopes that you can get for free online- can you ONLY use them for flate rate shipping? Or can you use them for regular priority mail too?

I've had 3 packages lost or stolen from the rodchester hub . I'm waiting on a 4th that was shipped accidentally threw usps it hit Rodchester and I haven't received a update since just "in transit to next facility arriving late . Pay the extra for private shipping . Or if you have to order threw usps order multipli items threw different sellers and with usps you might get 1 2 to 3 weeks late .

I will never use usps for packages again . Stopped using them then gave in recently and ordered and what do you know "your package is in transit but will arrive late ". The last time it never arrived and usps lost it ???? I guess someone wanted this one also so it got lost to . I wish my packages were protected . I'll never use usps again

the whole room your recording in is curved. explain this bubble effect please.

Thanks for the valuable information! USPS Priority mail is more expensive if you're using their boxes. Does it make sense to purchase boxes similar to USPS sizes?

Your videos are great! I would love to see a video of an actual eBay listing being made. Shipping options and services have been my biggest hangups.

Thank you a wealth of info. Great video

This was so incredibly helpful. So far I have just learned from my expensive mistakes. Now that I’m selling more, I needed this! Thank you!

Thank you!

Just realized I used ground advantage on a priority tyvek envelope... Am I screwed? Dropped it off yesterday, no update yet lol

Great information 👍🏻

You have been a great help, I've made my first $200 this month thanks to your videos! Thank you so much motivating me to take charge and sell some stuff!

I’m kind of a noob can you elaborate a little on what the calculated shipping means I’m afraid to select it bc it has such a large range.

New shipper here thanks for the info . Curious do you have USPS pick up your packages or do you just drop them off?

Help I have 82 nice items I have sold 1 😢

Pirate Ship saves money anyway you go.

Can I buy my own label from usps website for my item or you have to use those from ebay? those labels created on ebay have no option to add a signature or insurance and that sucks I want to create my own label on usps website and add whatever I want schedule pickup etc can you do that?

This helped thank you!

Grocery bags are good packing material, looks cheap but works and free

I pretty much send everything ground advantage

To my state, ground advantage cost more and is four times slower than flatrate priority.

wait hold up, I can offer multiple options for shipping on my listings? I can't seem to figure out how to do this on google. Can anyone help? TIA!

HELP! I'm new and I can't find the shipping rate chart you referred to at the beginning of the video. I've searched Usps and Ebay.

Ground Advantage quickly gets expensive when you go beyond the 1st pound. USPS rates are currently ridiculous, making their advertising of this new shipping method deceptive! Ebay doesn't really make it easier either with their thieving fees...

Every since they started this Ground Advantage i have had nothing but problems!!!!!! I have Never in 15 years of being on ebay had so many MISSENT, LOST or SHIPPED ALL OVER THE PLACE before it gets to the buyer and so far 3 Negative feedback because of them! TOTAL crap!

Can you take a priority mail box and wrap it in brown shipping paper and use it for non priority mail? Great video answered a lot of my questions!

It's always good to brush-up on certain things & shipping is one of them! I appreciate all the details you included and I will check your supply list for that box scorer since I've spent way too much time making my own! Thanks again, Wick!

You can cover the priority box with brown paper bags and ship it ground Advantage

Link for baseball bat boxes? Got free ones from usps but now I met you lol

What's your thoughts on harvesting your own boxes if you work at a retail store. I work at a big lots and have practically an almost unlimited supply of boxes

Hey Wick - great information, thanks!

Do you pass along the discount on shipping, or do you have ebay collect the full shipping amount and take the discount as profit? (I have mine set to pass along the discount, but am adding $1 handling charge to offset packing materials a bit.)

Have had good luck w/ABB - thanks for letting us know they have tape, I'll get that next time - been getting a decent deal at Sam's on 3M.

Where can I buy the printer for the labels? Which one do you recommend ? Thank you :)

any tips and or recommendations for what shipping option to use to sell those 3.5in Star Wars action figures?

Is shipping a tax write off?

what scale do you suggest , Thank you ‼️

thanks! great info

can someone please help me? last week i sold items through mercari with usps ground advantage using priority mail boxes. i went to the post office to print out paid labels using their kiosk-- fast forward, everything was delivered/went smoothly. today i tried to ship out more boxes doing the same thing except this time the kiosk was down. i went to the desk so one of the postal workers could print out labels and put them on my packages... and was told i was using the wrong boxes. they also told me "if you use these boxes they'll be returned to you". the postal worker then directed me to an area where i should purchases the "correct" boxes to ship my items. my question is, if what they were saying is true... why did my previous packages get delivered okay? am i being scammed into buying more boxes from them? please let me know!

I love Pirate Ship! Their customer service is top notch. I had an insurance claim for a missing package, and they handled it extremely quickly. I use them for pretty much everything now.

"Everybody is going to make a mistake when they start out." That's really true and you still goof even after years every once in a while, thanks to changes like the USPS long package deal recently. As much as we'd LIKE it to be: shipping isn't completely an exact science. Thanks for featuring the box reducer/sizer tool. I resize boxes a lot, and that's a real struggle for me, even more now that I have arthritis in both hands. I'm happy to have that recommended. I'll pick one up.

Can you do a video on offering free shipping

How do you show more than one shipping option on your listing in ebay?

@FlippingJunk thank you very much for this video . Im taking notes as i watch and i appreciate how clear you have made things. Also i posted on another video but i think the question is more appropriate here... What options would you recommend for a new seller printing lables at home ? Like what tech to use . Thank you 👌

ARC books don't wanna go thru media mail sometimes 😢

If I just throw a box or a Rubix Cube inside a poly mailer, is that considered non machinable and subject to a surcharge because the dimensions aren't the same for the whole package? I mean it will be lumpy and not exactly square or rectangular throughout the entire pkg. For example I get medicine bottles shipped to me at home and they are just tossed in a poly mailer. How do I determine the size, is it just the size of the poly mailer regardless if it's lumpy? Hope you can help me with this because I've searched everywhere trying to figure out how to calculate the dimensions.

Can you use the uses boxes to ship internationally? I am so new and overwhelmed with the shipping. Scary 😨

Thank you so much for this video!
I’m brand new to eBay and frankly totally lost when it comes to shipping. Still relatively new to Poshmark but at least shipping there doesn’t scare me and now thanks to you I realize I can just keep using usps priority shipping and don’t have to figure out where to buy the mailers from, etc.
Thank you!