Whether you’re looking for a thermal label printer for your home business or 30 label printers for your fulfillment warehouse the LP 2844 is one that comes up again and again. It is a standby machine that, despite its continued prevalence, has been discontinued by Zebra for almost 10 years! The business world doesn’t seem …
If you’ve been selling online for any length of time you’ve probably heard of a shipping service called Pirate Ship. Allegedly they can save you a ton of money by offering bulk shipping rates to everyday people. But is there a catch? Despite being a full-time reseller I avoided using Pirate Ship for years as …
One of the most annoying things as an online reseller is getting ready to print a shipping label, only to find that your printer is out of ink. It doesn’t happen to me anymore because I bought a thermal printer, but before I bought it, I had an inkjet that was constantly out of ink. …
If you’ve been around for very long, you’d know that I have a serious problem with thermal printers. Mainly, I don’t have space to put them all. Since I started selling full-time on eBay (and chronicling my experience and reviewing items here) I’ve purchased 7 thermal printers for personal use (and more to resell). Why …
When my wife and I first started selling on eBay, I would work at my “real” job from 3-11 p.m, get home around midnight, pack the things that were sold during the day, and head to the post office to ship them! We would stand at the shipping kiosk for more than an hour some …
If you’ve been selling on Mercari for very long you’ll know that their shipping is about as convenient as it gets. You sell an item, they send you a label, you print it off and send the item. Easy. However, the way that Mercari shipping works means that, if you don’t have a label printer, …
When it comes to shipping from home, very few things are actually necessary to make the process run smoothly. You don’t need personalized boxes, cute work area decorations, a Rollo label printer, etc. Those things are cute and helpful, but if you’re looking to get into selling for maximum profit, none of those will increase …
Since getting married 7 years ago my wife and I have moved 4 times and shipped over 4,000 packages. What do those things have in common? Tape. Lots and lots of packing tape. During that time we’ve purchased at least a dozen different types of packing tape. We’ve tried heavy-duty packing tape, clear packing tape, …
One of my first exposures to shipping via media mail came before I even started reselling on eBay. My wife encouraged me to sell my textbooks on Amazon at the end of every semester instead of selling them back to the campus bookstore. I was all about making more money but, like most people in …
Having a package not delivered where or when it is supposed to be is one of the major headaches that can come with shipping. We ship hundreds of items a month through our eBay business and, more months than not, we have packages lost in the mail, damaged, end up at zip code 01153, etc. …