Tips for weighing stuff to sell?

[Incog Neato]

I mean, I want to sell stuff but I get sort of annoyed for constantly needing to go to the post office to get it done.

I thought about getting a digital postal scale but it'll just be something that'll sit around and collect dust for like 11 months out of a year. I'm not worried about making back the money spent on something like that because going by the trend so far, I can recover it pretty fast. :E

I keep thinking the scale isn't worth it but I'm not sure there's any other alternative if going to the PO induces mini-rage. ^^~

I think the main issue is that I have to bring all the packages there, and then bring them all back home, and then bring them back there AGAIN when I have to mail them. :3

This silliness is actually the main reason I haven't put up new items like I said I would.

[Yakra]

.........What about using those weighing machines one has for oneself? ....What are they called...? Bathroom scales? If ye has those, won't it be a wee bit cheaper? True, it may not be so accurate, but if the way of laziness rears it ugly head upon ye, it's the best way to get a roundabout weight estimate? :'D And then you can stick on the higher-side weight charge on everybody, just so that you don't go in loss? :'D

....And despite me going 'sell! sell! SELL!' at you all the time, I can actually relate to your pain. As I'm sure everyone at these boards can already figure out, with the speeds at which I sent you all something? And I just have to make one trip!

*the lazy*

[SkyeWelse]

Well, a bathroom scale as Yakra suggested would work fine I think for fairly heavy items, though I'm not sure it would be calibrated to give you the best estimate on cds and such. For those you probably would have to invest in a small postage scale. Those shouldn't be terribly expensive and a lot of office supply stores carry them. You don't need a digital one unless you enjoy spending more money for something fancy that needs batteries. : )

But, when I am dealing with many of the forum members (here at least) I've found that all of the folks I've done business transactions with so far are both reliable and trustworthy, so if you were to do business with someone who is a regular here you might just do better to explain to the person beforehand that you aren't sure about the exact mailing costs, but give your best guess estimate. Then you could mail it and send that member the amount for what you ended up having to pay at the post office. Of course, you may only want to do that with people who are regulars or customers you have done business with in the past, but doing something like that could easily save you a trip to the post office.

I know I personally wouldn't have a problem with you wanting to save a trip to the post office when ordering something from you because I trust you well enough to know that you would be fair and honest with how much the actual shipping cost was. Know what I mean? : )

-Thomas

[Incog Neato]

Aug 11, 2009 9:23:10 GMT -5 Yakra said:

.........What about using those weighing machines one has for oneself? ....What are they called...? Bathroom scales? If ye has those, won't it be a wee bit cheaper?

Eeeeeeee. As SkyeWelse noted, they pretty much only work on heavier packages. And it's impossible to know the weight of something if the box is large because it covers the output window and there's no option to save the weight! Especially on an analog scale like we have! XD!!

Guess I shall invest in a scale.

Ooh! This one looks cute! XD Although I wonder about that dial replacement thing ...

Oh yeah, I was doing some more searching on this topic and it seems like people use kitchen scales too~! Might even be a cheaper option!! :D!