Etsy Shipping Changes Coming Soon

[kmmcrafts]

Just thought I'd give a heads to the Etsy sellers on here. Shouldn't affect me at all as I've been doing this for the most part anyway.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2021/6/1624478808.html

[GrampaJim]

Meh.  I do all that anyway.  Ship everything USPS Priority and have the tracking numbers.  Others might find this a big change.  But is will not help if the post office has packages in the distribution center for 3-4 weeks like I had happen last season.

Edited June 25, 2021 by GrampaJim

[kmmcrafts]

Yeah, doesn't affect me either, I print all my labels right through etsy and first class etc. through etsy includes tracking etc. Sales from Amazon same thing.. print labels right through Amazon. In the case of Amazon IF a customer claims they didn't receive it and tracking shows it was delivered Amazon will side with me over the issue..  they take it up with amazon for the refund etc... which there are A LOT of scammers / customers on AZ that try to pull this.. 

[BadBob]

Not a problem for me. I use Etsy shipping and USPS for all my shipping.  Everything I ship has a tracking number.

[John M]

I always provide the buyer a tracking number. Doesn't matter how much they spend it it common courtesy.

[Puzzleguy]

I just use etsy's shipping -you get a bit of a deal and you get all that built it .

But my question is : Im getting requests for items threw other souces -

Not Etsy and looking at a decent shipping outside of Etsy- whats the best

for price and service - ( wish i could use Etsy shipping outside of Etsy )

[kmmcrafts]

1 hour ago, Puzzleguy said:

I just use etsy's shipping -you get a bit of a deal and you get all that built it .

But my question is : Im getting requests for items threw other souces -

Not Etsy and looking at a decent shipping outside of Etsy- whats the best

for price and service - ( wish i could use Etsy shipping outside of Etsy )

Yes me too, I'm not certain what the "best deal" is for offsite sales that needs shipped. I use Paypal shipping for it.. Not sure if they changed it yet but used to be difficult to find the easy link to their shipping page unless someone made a purchase and paid through PayPal.. But at any rate.. you might find it by searching google for " PayPal Ship Now " and then it should bring you to the right page where you can log in and it'll bring you directly to the page where you fill out the address.. It's really un-user friendly in my opinion to ship off the market place sites.. as like on amazon, ebay, etsy, and the on sites shipping process usually has all the address info already entered.. I'm not sure how some of the shipping services work like stamps.com etc.. there is a lot of those services and a lot of folks talk about it being a good deal.. hopefully they aren't having to manually enter all the info as that takes a lot of time.. especially during the busy holidays when you're sending 60 -80 packages a day.. I couldn't do manual entry then for sure..

[BadBob]

I send them to my Etsy shop to make their purchase even if it is a custom order.

I find that selling outside of Etsy to be more expensive in both time and money.

[kmmcrafts]

13 hours ago, BadBob said:

I send them to my Etsy shop to make their purchase even if it is a custom order.

I find that selling outside of Etsy to be more expensive in both time and money.

That is a BIG reason I shut down my old website and moved everything over to Etsy's website platform called "Pattern" It's customizable and the dashboard is just Etsy's dashboard and you use Etsy's shipping etc.. If you leave it un-customized it's basically a Etsy shop, LOL.. orders and messages come right to my phone just the same as on Etsy.. It's just convenient to have it combined for me.. bad enough to keep up with all the other sites I sell on so streamlining my website with Etsy is nice as inventory is kept up with.. if I sell on Etsy it comes off the website or if I sell on my website inventory is adjusted on Etsy etc. Sure simplified things when I moved my site over to Etsy's Pattern