Posting large lot of magazines

lms81

Hi,

Looking for a bit of advice from anyone who has experience of selling heavy magazines on eBay.

My husband has loads of old computer magazines from the 90s and since it was the free listings weekend last weekend I decided to list them. There are 24 in total and I listed them all individually with a starting price of £2.99 and postage cost of £2 each. I really wasn't expecting them to sell (and thought that if they did it might only be a couple of them). However, I got home today and someone has bid on all 24 of them. Obviously I am very pleased but am now a bit concerned about how I will post all 24 magazines to this person! Is it best to post them all together or to post them in small bundles?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I have sold quite it on eBay but they have all been smaller items.

annie-c

Use a box or sturdy delivery bag and send by Royal Mail Standard Parcels, or a courier if cheaper/convenient.

charlies_mum

We sold lots of magazines in one lot, and sent them by Parcelforce for £10.99 (I think). If you have a Paypal account, print a postage label on Ebay and you can send up to 30 kg for £10.99. You can either take to the depot, or they will collect.

Kaz2904

I have just had to deliver a set of car mats. I don't have a printer so I ended up using p4d.co.uk who can link to your ebay account and you choose which parcel you want to send via them. I managed to get a DHL delivery for £6.99+vat. Erm, £8.39 I think? Which is still cheaper than Royal mail or direct to a courier. They picked the parcel up from DH's workplace as they collect between 9am and 5.30pm. Other companies put me off because they said collection would be between 7am and 7pm.
Just make sure that you send a combined invoice and reduce your charges for P&P to a reasonable level.

mobile48

Kaz2904 wrote: »

who can link to your ebay account and you choose which parcel you want to send via them.

Nice idea a courier that integrates with ebay:

http://www.p4d.co.uk/ebay-integration.html

I will be looking into this in more detail and seeing if similar services are offered by other companies.

Kaz2904

Well, I've had the feedback from the buyer now so the item was collected at 5pm on Monday and delivered to the other end of the country by this mornig. Pretty good service I think.
I found it very easy to link to my ebay account. I still had to write out the adress on the parcel but they do do a printable label. I don't have a printer so that normally rules out any courier companies for me.
I'm well chuffed and would definately use them again if I had a large parcel to send.