What's killing sales is that shipping costs have doubled in the last 24 months. Nobody on the east coast wants to spend a hundred bucks to ship a $300 telescope. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Craig Smith <cs2560@gmail.com> Date: 10/29/17 8:30 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Yard Sale Yeah, I did that, that's how I sold everything else. I sold quite a bit of stuff a long time ago, it just took me a bit to figure it out again. Once you have the boxes it's easier, although I wish I had real labels to print on. I have a postal scale, but the new flat rate boxes make it easier, although they are limited sizes. On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been doing pretty well in the Cloudy Nights Classifieds. Wrapping stuff up for shipping is a pain, but I've been getting better than swap-meet prices on stuff.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Craig Smith <cs2560@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I sold everything but my dob scope cloak. Anyone interested? See my ad on KSL or SLAS.
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Craig Smith <cs2560@gmail.com> wrote:
OK thanks. My stuff is actually new in box or opened but not really used. I've already gotten a lot of response off cloudy nights.
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Agreed. It also makes it hard to sell small things, because shipping is such a large percentage of the price. On Oct 29, 2017 8:36 PM, "chuck.hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
What's killing sales is that shipping costs have doubled in the last 24 months. Nobody on the east coast wants to spend a hundred bucks to ship a $300 telescope.
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Craig Smith <cs2560@gmail.com> Date: 10/29/17 8:30 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Utah Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Yard Sale Yeah, I did that, that's how I sold everything else. I sold quite a bit of stuff a long time ago, it just took me a bit to figure it out again. Once you have the boxes it's easier, although I wish I had real labels to print on. I have a postal scale, but the new flat rate boxes make it easier, although they are limited sizes.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been doing pretty well in the Cloudy Nights Classifieds. Wrapping stuff up for shipping is a pain, but I've been getting better than swap-meet prices on stuff.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Craig Smith <cs2560@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I sold everything but my dob scope cloak. Anyone interested? See my ad on KSL or SLAS.
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Craig Smith <cs2560@gmail.com> wrote:
OK thanks. My stuff is actually new in box or opened but not really used. I've already gotten a lot of response off cloudy nights.
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