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Mailbox Rental
 

Here we go, discuss the following:

1.Best Mailbox Rental service in UK and why?
2.Different ways of doing it- Self storage, Mailboxes or something else?


I'm setting up the standard stealths with random accounts because I seriously don't expect any returns from them. Statisticly I have over 1300 trasnactions and only 3 returns, all were damaged in post(Shook some delicate parts loose).
I do sell some higher price items every now and again, £100+, and I thought perhaps it would be good idea to set up 1 or 2 stealth accounts with actual return addresses that I have access to.
At first I thought about self storage option, because I could keep my stock in there as well and not just use it for returns.
Then I Googled a bit and found that Mailboxes etc. do rather good packages as well.

So please, help me out a bit and help me with some suggestions- What has worked for you that doesn't eat a hole into your pocket.

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Re: Mailbox Rental
 

Nobody, really?

Re: Mailbox Rental
 

I would look local for an address, there are loads of places that do address rental or managed returns. you might be surprised how close you can find something at a reasonable price.


Another thing is , I would forget about any account no2, no3, no 4 and so on until I had one good account up and running for a while, than start to think about account no2

its easy to create accounts , the trick it to keep then up and running well.

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and by that you mean what places exactly? My local corner shop, Tesco or Esso garage?

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You nailed it there joffieJaffa, 'the trick is to keep them up and running well', that is the key to all future success or loss! That is a much bigger stumbling block than people realise, untill they are actually in the midst of operating those accounts, and making the right choices at the right times!

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In a way, I'm not THAT worried about the whole "up and running" part because the items I sell are all unique, low risk(no risk almost) and inexpensive. I hardly ever sell same item twice and I have few different ways to "make the accounts looks different" using different listing templates, photo lightboxes and other bits and pieces.

BUT, thanks anyway I guess.