Shipping coins

"Up to 3 oz. first class with tracking is $1.97 using eBay shipping. Without that tracking, any seller can simply say he has not received it, true or not, and you lose. Why chance it?"

I definitely realizer your point. But if it's a 1 in a 1,000 chance that someone would be so dishonest to say they have not received shipment, I would probably rather go without tracking.

For something more expensive than an American Silver Eagle, I will always do tracking without hesitation.

 

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Hmmm... I didn't seem to be able to get such a good price for shipping and tracking. I agree, if you can ship first class and get tracking for only $1.97, then it's well worth it.

Is there anything special you do to ensure this rate?

 

If the only reason you are spending $12 per item on shipping is for insurance then you need to come up with a dollar amount per item that you will self insure. I would not worry about insurance for any coin under $200, but each person/company has to determine their own threshold for when insurance is necessary.

If you start shipping coins costing less than $200 using padded mailers with corrugated cardboard protectors you can cut almost $10 off your shipping cost for each item. I promise you that the USPS is not going to lose 5% of your shipments.

 

If it sells on eBay, print the ticket on eBay. Even if it does not sell on eBay, you can print a ticket on PayPal to address of your choice for the same price.

 

I ship USPS and print the label through eBay/PayPal. I charge $2.99 to ship, which by the time I expense the shipping ($1.97), the bubble mailer, bubble bag (I double bubble slabs), label, business card, etc., the $2.99 is basically a break even scenario, in fact, on eBay, it's a slight loss since they charge the fees on the shipping now too.

Most of my coins are sold at $100 or less, so I don't insure, but if I were sending multiple valuable coins or a single, extremely valuable coin, I'd pay up and just swallow the additional cost.

 

Yeah, every time I use this, I have to do a Google search to find the link. I think if someone pays you with PayPal you can do it more easily, but to just print postage it's buried.

 

Buried? You can do it from "Multi-order Shipping" - right on the entry page. I do not remember the specifics, but it goes through edit. There is another page, but I have not got that link from my old computer yet.

 

No. You are missing what I said. You can print a single order to anyone by using the edit on Multi-order shipping. Really.

But, yes, your link is easier. And that is the one I lost.

 

When you print the label from ebay, do you print it on an adhesive kind of paper or just normal paper and tape it to your package?

 

Your choice. I prefer the sticky back - if you can get them cheap enough.

 

I appreciate everyone who has contributed to this thread.

Another question:

When you guys print a pre-payed label and put it on the package, do you bother going to the post office or do you instead drop the parcel off into one of those blue mailboxes on the street?

 

I just attach my PayPal label and in the blue box it goes.

 

Neither. I have a great postal person and I live in the old fashioned door-to-door delivery area. I simply put it out for her to take.

 

It costs me $3.37 to ship with tracking and that's not including the cost of the bubble lined mailer.

 

What are you paying for? Insurance?

 

Apples and oranges. Amanda ships really valuable coins, it looks like most of the posters here ship material well under a hundred dollars.

Hugh Wood insures even relatively valuable parcels in flat rate mailers, does not require a box in a box last I spoke with them. Even major auction companies do flat mailers, insured of course.