Getting ready to post a sale on Shelflife, need help.

[Oberon Prime]

Hello All,

Just recently signed up on Shelflife and I am getting ready to post my first few items for sale. But it needs me to provide shipping options and amount. As most of the items would fit in a padded envelope and are Scout Deluxe or Voyager I can assume weights for most. However one item is a problem.

I have a complete loose Energon Omega Supreme I'd like to post but I have no idea what it weighs (aside from a lot more than the other items) and as such how much shipping will cost for domestic or to the US.

Does anybody know the weight of a loose one of these or has one and the means to weigh it?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Sureshot22]

Thats the only reason why i havent sold anything on shelflife yet. I have no clue how much stuff weights or how much to charge.

I feel your pain

[Akroyer]

Keeps us posted how you make out. I only have one thing posted, and working out shipping was a nightmare. I made liberal guesses in my favor. And have had no interest in it. It's going to take a large box to ship it, so I'm not too surprised.

[wedge1021]

Well you could always pack it in a box like you would if you were shipping it, take it to the post office, and get them to weigh it for you. Then either get them to give you the shipping quote options on a printout, or just make a note of the weight and use their online calculator.

I got tired of doing it this way myself, and since I recently posted a bunch of stuff for sale, thought it would be a good idea to pick up a digital kitchen scale. I found a cheap one at Canadian Tire, only $20: http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows....jsp?locale=en
This scale works great, does up to 5kg, and is accurate to the post office's to within 2 grams. Now I can make weight adjustments all at home, and know what the shipping rate will be before even going to the post office. It's a very useful investment for anyone who does a bunch of shipping.

[pulsedragon20]

Originally Posted by wedge1021

Well you could always pack it in a box like you would if you were shipping it, take it to the post office, and get them to weigh it for you. Then either get them to give you the shipping quote options on a printout, or just make a note of the weight and use their online calculator.

I got tired of doing it this way myself, and since I recently posted a bunch of stuff for sale, thought it would be a good idea to pick up a digital kitchen scale. I found a cheap one at Canadian Tire, only $20: http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows....jsp?locale=en
This scale works great, does up to 5kg, and is accurate to the post office's to within 2 grams. Now I can make weight adjustments all at home, and know what the shipping rate will be before even going to the post office. It's a very useful investment for anyone who does a bunch of shipping.

Investing in a scale is well worth it if you sell a lot, like I used to on eBay...

[Oberon Prime]

Originally Posted by pulsedragon20

Investing in a scale is well worth it if you sell a lot, like I used to on eBay...

The main impediment to such an investment is that I have a few dozen older toys to get rid of and then I'm likely done selling for the foreseeable future.

A friend suggested some approximate weights for various size classes that are rounded up and that I could just refund the difference back once I know the actual shipping cost. So I was gonna do that for the various Scout/Basic, Deluxe, Voyager/Mega and Ultra class items. But the much larger Supreme size Omega Supreme is the one anomaly I'm selling in terms of easy approximation.

[Shepp]

As far as I know, it's mainly the dimensions of the box that influence the shipping costs (as well as destination).

An X-Y-Z sized box is the same cost, no matter the mass, up to a certain amount. After that, it starts driving the cost up.

Maybe that's just for the boxes you actually buy from Canada Post.

I have a few things on Shelf-Life that I've put up for sale and they haven't moved for months. I'm pretty sure shipping is the sticky point. Canada gets hosed for shipping costs to the point of doubling the price of a figure in some cases.

[faustx]

Hey guys,

Sorry, just noticed this thread, otherwise would have offered help much faster.

We are currently working on adding weight and dimensions to many of the products in the database in order to auto-calculate likely shipping and bring that aspect up to world class standards.

That will also coincide with the launch of wiki-access to update ALL of the records on site. In short, we'll still have curators overseeing the catalogs, but everyone else can contribute, earn collector points, and help perfect the catalogs.

p.s. Energon Omega Supreme is likely a 30-40cm cubed box and about 3lbs packed. One tip: you can get weight and size on Amazon for most of this stuff in the interim.

[Johnstewling]

Originally Posted by oberonprime

Hello All,

Just recently signed up on Shelflife and I am getting ready to post my first few items for sale. But it needs me to provide shipping options and amount. As most of the items would fit in a padded envelope and are Scout Deluxe or Voyager I can assume weights for most. However one item is a problem.

I have a complete loose Energon Omega Supreme I'd like to post but I have no idea what it weighs (aside from a lot more than the other items) and as such how much shipping will cost for domestic or to the US.

Does anybody know the weight of a loose one of these or has one and the means to weigh it?

Any help would be appreciated.

My suggestion would be don't use it at all for selling. No one does, the same stuff has been listed as for sale on there everytime you go, it's all waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overpriced and the selection of what is for sale isn't great.

I get emails constantly about so and so wants your item, but they never sell. This site was a neat idea, but it hasn't taken off at all.

[justprime]

just the figure complete a little under 2 lbs