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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:05 am
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I've seen a lot of online stores selling handmade products or materials these days, because it's a nice convenient way to sell products and reach an international audience.
One issue that comes from it though is how to get the goods to the customer. How do you find out how much packaging and postage will cost? How do you package your goods to make sure that they'll reach their destination intact? Do you put effort into well designed and branded packaging of your items, or just keep things simple? Have you been impressed (or unimpressed) with the postage prices and methods of people you've ordered things from?
This is partly because I'm not really sure where to look for postage prices for the guild craft swap coming up sweatdrop Or, more specifically, I know where to find these things for Australia (which is where I live) but not for other countries (US and UK seem to be the most common within this guild).
For comparison, in Australia it's all done through Australia Post. If the item is less than 260mm x 360mm, thinner than 20mm and lighter than 500g you can get away with calling it a letter, which costs around AU$2-$12 to send to the US or UK. If it's bigger than that it's considered a parcel, and costs start from $14 and go up from there according to weight xp Sending things is quite expensive huh? Envelopes and boxes can be quite expensive too, for larger items.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:46 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:09 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:14 pm
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I've bought a bunch of handmade stuff over etsy and have always been pleased as to how they got to me. so as a consumer, I prefer it just to get to me in one piece. I dont think brand name packaging is a priority. who cares if it's padded by newspaper?
honestly to figure out shipping costs you just have to go to the post office. how much it weighs and how far it's going determines the price. if you make a lot of something and sell it, you'll be able to get an idea of how much the shipping will be the first time someone buys something.
As for it getting there intact, everything can be used. those brown padded envelopes work well, but if you're sending something small and breakable, like a charm for instance, you'd want to put it in some kind of small cardboard boxes (like you get jewelry in) and wrap it really well. if you're worried about it getting wet, perhaps seal it in a ziploc baggie. I guess that would be harder with larger objects, but hey, gladwear press-and-seal works wonders biggrin
so all in all, I dont think packaging has to be expensive, but it has to do it's job: getting the goods to its destination intact.
(wow, I wrote a lot! sweatdrop )
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:46 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:18 pm
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