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Any ideas for packaging materials
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bo_drinker wrote: »pants ??? :rotfl:
Again, marketed correctly, this could significantly increase the selling price of the ceramic mugs!<--- Nothing to see here - move along --->0 -
Yes and old padded bras would be good packaging, and increase the price, I may rethink my marketing strategy!!!0
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Bake the items into a cake.
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Anything breakable must be in a box, so go raid a local off lincence for their wine boxes and break them down for card.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the eBay, Auctions, Car Boot & Jumble Sales, Boost Your Income, Praise, Vents & Warnings, Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning , UK Holidays, Days Out & Entertainments boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know.. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.0
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Anything breakable must be in a box, so go raid a local off lincence for their wine boxes and break them down for card.
Sorry Soolin, but that's not true. Using the Royal Mail, or carriers, anything breakable should be packed well enough to withstand handling and/dropping. That doesn't mean a box.
I send 10-30 items of glassware per day, either single pieces or packs, and 99% of what I sell (test tubes, flasks, lab stuff) goes in padded envelopes.
The item itself is wrapped in corrugated card. I get less than one breakage per 500 or so packages.
WhenI had my B&M business, we use bubble pack in boxes, but bubble allows movement, and movement equals breakages. Corrugate cardboard is marvellous. It acts as a shock-absorber. Wrap glassware properly in it and even longer, thin items like pipettes or burettes get delivered safely.
A 450mm wide x 50m long roll of corrugated cardboard is only about £25.Exclamation and question marks - ONE exclamation mark or question mark is sufficient to exclaim or ask about something. More than one just makes you look/sound like a prat.
Should OF, would OF. Dear oh dear. You really should have, or should've listened at school when that nice English teacher was explaining how words get abbreviated.0 -
I also sell glass and having had an item actually run over before now (I had the packaging with the tyre marks to prove it) I am happy with my boxes. My stuff is fragile so also needs to withstand several hundredweight of other parcels being hurled on top of it in a cage so a box stops the crushing.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the eBay, Auctions, Car Boot & Jumble Sales, Boost Your Income, Praise, Vents & Warnings, Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning , UK Holidays, Days Out & Entertainments boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know.. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.0
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Anything breakable must be in a box, so go raid a local off lincence for their wine boxes and break them down for card.
LOL, the "local" off licence round here must be a 25 mile round trip, and it sounds like the OP is a rural dweller too!They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato0
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