Tonight I'm celebrating the fact that I finally added international shipping to my shop. It's been about a year that I've been procrastinating. I bought a postal scale last week. Tonight I packaged up my items like I would for shipping and weighed them. Then I went online to http://www.usps.com/ to calculate the postage.
That tactic worked fine for US and Canadian shipping. However, there's an option on Etsy to charge a single rate to ship "Everywhere Else". Now, I'm sure the cost of a box going to the UK as opposed to AU is completely different. What I had to do (and the reason I was putting off doing it) was sort of make an educated guesstimate. I basically averaged those costs together. I hope I didn't undercut myself. I didn't factor in delivery confirmation or the insurance I buy for items over $35. I guess only time will tell if it'll need to be adjusted or not.
In the meantime, I'd like to extend a big smiling welcome to all of you international buyers. *waves* I've finally shown you some love. Come on over and take a look around!
Mr. B says, "I pity the fool without international shipping!"
8 comments:
international shipping you say?! woohoo.....off to peek....
Shipping can be a bit complicated especialy when items have a huge range in weight!!
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I finally added it to my shop too. It's hard to know if I'm charging too much, not enough, etc...even with all the weighing and such.
Looks like you and I just have to sell something to be shipped internationally and compare notes ;)!
Cute post! International shipping is tricky, that's for sure.
~Stella
It is very tricky. I guess I'll have to see how it goes! I'll update once I get my first international buyer. (Which I hope will be sooner rather than later!)
I had my first Canadian sale and it was so much easier than I had imagined. I hope it goes as smoothly for the other countries.
the "I pity the fool without international shipping!" made me laugh a little. so true
Oh yeah. I can geek it out with the best of 'em! (o:
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