No shoetage of places to get boxes and packing free. Heck I used to raid
the dumpster outside the religious bookstore when I worked in a shop in the
same plaza, for all kinds of small boxes - I was tossing out scrap cardboard
anyways, and here you have to put all that into a seperate dumpster so it's
not like I had to weed through coffee grounds and apple cores or anything.
I used to get all sorts of extras.
I found some big Snap-On wrenches in it one day some moron threw into the
wrong dumpster, too.
But if you don't want to do that, a lot of retail stores will let you have
their boxes, grocery stores and the like. Why pay for something you can get
free? the Post Office lets you have all kinds of boxes for Priority Mail
shipments, too.
Bubble wrap is expensive, so I use a lot of newspaper - it's free once it's
been read - but there is a good way to get heavy duty bubble wrap for free.
Find a shop that sells canoes, and offer to take it off their hands. A guy
I know with a postETC type of shop gets his that way. They ship the boats
in this heavy stuff and the shop can never reuse all of it, so it gets
rolled up and what this other guy doesnt want, is garbage. One big sheet
of that will last me months.
The only time I charge is when I ship stainless trim, if I don't have enough
PVC handy I'll hit them for $5 for another 10' piece.
Okay, it costs me some time to pack it up, but sometimes when I am making
like a 150% profit or more, the 10 minutes or so is worth the trouble.
It's just a matter of being inginuitive -
Bill K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Allyn Swartley" <Archangel1390@xxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:08 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] THERE AIN'T NO FREE LUNCH
>
> I sell a good bid of stuff on Ebay and I charge a handling fee. That is
the
> way it goes in the real world. I have to pay for the boxes when I buy them
at
> Mail Boxes Inc., they also charge me for the bubble wrap and the mailing
> labels. Are some of you saying I should pay those costs myself? Come on
guys. If
> your shipping a lot of packages that adds up. A business associate of mine
does
> not charge any of the handling charge he just jacks up the price of the
product
> he is selling. No matter how you cut it-----THERE AIN'T NO FREE LUNCH.
LOL
>
> Ron Allyn Swartley
>
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