Re: Cost Effective Shipping & Return Shipping Label Options With Multiple Accounts
Seems the only thing making this complicated is trying to pay for original shipping with paypal...
From my understanding you cant add the same po box for returns on multiple eBay accounts with out linking. And it wouldnt be cost effective to have 5-10 po boxes for returns...
Shipstation rep said that if I link my eBay "Stores" (wondering if this includes personal ebay accounts?) to shipstation, I can pay for shipping to the buyer using eBay, paying with PayPal, then If I get a return I would need to update that "Store" in shipstation so the order will be marked as shipped. Then I can buy a return label to email to the buyers paypal email address with the correct return address using Stamps.com through shipstation. From my understanding the label would be good for 7 days.
I tried the USPS click-n-ship method which excepts PayPal as payment. It can be done but the buyer has to mail the return with in 48hrs (according to the usps rep i talked to) (24hrs according to the website) of the date I choose for the shipping date on the label (they give you 5 days to choose from, the day you buy the label and the following 4 days). If the buyer misses the date, the label expires. Then the buyer would have to ask the USPS worker to do a "Zero Meter" at the counter when dropping the package off and the label will be good again. But that seems too complicated for a buyer doing a return. (they will probably get pissed and scumbag me)
#1. it seems the only viable way is to have one po box for all 5-10 stealth accounts that is NOT connected to ebay or pp in any way.
#2. people say they put a label or sticker with their real PO box return address over the stealth address on the original label from ebay going to the buyer. If you can do that, why wouldn't you be able to change it with a pdf editor and make it look clean? That way the buyer wouldn't think twice. So why cant I do that, or am I missing something? Would the barcode have both the send to address and my stealth return address? If that's the case then the two option are either take your chances with loosing the package if it some how it doesn't make it to the buyer and gets returned. Or pay for all shipping with bank account money. (Not what I really want to do...)
#3. Buy return label from Stamps.com using shipstation because I work on a chromebook and cant use Stamps.com directly. Using my 1 PO box for the address to return to which would match the return address I edited on the original label.
I've spent about 16hrs a day, 3 days in a row, researching this. It seems so many here have it figured out paying for original shipping through ebay. But their comments are missing details. I dont want to set up accounts and then have to change addresses later. I want a finalized plan I can stick to .
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