Calgary here. We only ship within Canada.

Typically, our smaller parcels are around 2 pounds. Tracking required.

I have read many complaints about the cost and quality related to Canadian shipping.

ChitChats, Stallion, DYK Post, Canada Post, etc.

What’s the latest opinion as to best shipping for small items within Canada?

I got the alert from Etsy asking for my SIN in order to continue selling on their platform, and was wondering how come eBay does not require that info? Could it be that eBay is just waiting to drop the hammer down soon? Just a little confusion after reading that Etsy is complying with the new Digital tax laws in Canada. You would think eBay would do this first, seeing as how much of a larger presence they have in the online selling space, but so far eBay has not asked for any new info.

I heard customs is cracking down on goods going through lettermail, though most everything I have heard is Canada to the US.

Is anyone using oversized lettermail to the UK with success?

So this is starting to annoy me.

We buy a lot from ibidstorage and we’ve done well using their service.

The issue we have is we are noticing an increased frequency of a mystery account we’ve never seen bidding up an auction.

We see similar names all the time and we know many of the frequent bidders but it seems almost every time we bid in a unit there is a new name we’ve never seen magically bidding it up to $1000-2000.

It seems odd as nobody usually starts in this business by bidding on risky units like this they usually look for cheaper units.

So either it’s the owner of the unit or something just doesn’t add up.

Weve complained about this before as it’s just not right.

I have a lot of inventory (womens clothing). I sell on Poshmark and Ebay. There are items I would like to sell in reseller bundles but it looks like not many of these bundles sell on these two platforms. Where are some of the places you guys source from? Looking to offload inventory, so anything helps!

Tried to look for some clothes at sport chek and winners and apparently “clearance” is max 20-30% off? Where is the 70% - 90% off I see people getting at these US stores like Ross? Or is that just a pipe dream in Canada ..

My apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere, having a hard time finding the answer.

I just signed up for Stallion Express because it looks like they can off ~50% less to ship to the US than I can get through purchasing a UPS label directly from eBay.

I integrated the account with my eBay account but now I’m curious when selecting international shipping, which service do I actually select on eBay to ship through stallion? I’m not seeing it in the drop down menu.

Where I can sell some electronic appliances in or around Toronto?

These items are not computers or phones. They're items for gardening, senior care, home maintenance, etc etc.

Shipping is off the table due to the high postage costs, and I don't want to spend time haggling and messing around with every individual customer on some platform like FBM or kijiji.

I'm partial to suggestions outside the downtown area, such as Halton, Peel, or York, or even as far as Hamilton.

I am new to Amazon FBA/RA/OA. I have seen quite a few YouTube videos but thinking of taking a course which is about $1000usd. Is it worth it?

How much have you made online sales (eBay, Poshmark and etc) vs real life (Facebook market place, Carrot & etc)?

What would be the perfect gameplan for clothes flipping?

Relatively new to POSH mark. Had a few sales generated in our first 2 days and the following 4 days just nothing.

Have 96 items in our closet currently which are pretty much all high end names that we’ve got priced from $17 to as much as $49 for some jackets worth $200-300.

Offering discounted $9.99 shipping on everything.

Like do I need to go further and do the $6.99 shipping or are we just needing to be more patient!our hope here was POSH would kick In sales of clothing we get in storage lockers so we aren’t 100% relying on just garage sales to sell the clothing.

Facebook marketplace seems Like people only want to pay $10-20 max for Clothing that is either brand new or like new.

We’ve got brand new blue jeans that sell for $265 at just $39. Other POSH people are asking 60-80 for the same pair.

Michael Kors brand new leather wallets just $40-45 each.

We are also offering a 15% discount if people buy more than 1 item.

I live three hours from the nearest stallion location and as of May 15 with the Chit Chats closures will also be 3 hours from the nearest chit chats. Wondering if anyone has any suggestions or experience shipping from an area where it feels like the only option is Canada Post?

Announcement made today: Kitchener, London, Ottawa West closures.
This sucks!

Hello,

I need to sell my vintage Yohji Yamamoto pieces from the 90s (female line). I would like to have your advices on which platforms to sell. I'm thinking ebay and grailed but any other platforms are appreciated. Also, do you know any vintage stores would be interested in his designs? I just moved to Toronto and still in the exploring phase.

Thank you so much!

Say you take 3000k in scrap to a scrapper and they write you a cheque, do you have to pay tax on that?

I have china in an old and (seemingly popular) pattern.

It's definitely not a "set" there's only a few plates.
How do you sell fragile things on eBay? (I need packaging advice)

Also how do you calculate shipping? It seems like shipping is exorbitant here.

Ebay canada has extended the discount on tracked packets to the u.s. indefinitely.

https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Announcements/Canada-Post-Tracked-Packet-USA-discounts-on-eBay-Labels-extended/ba-p/506023

We had a good storage locker recently that has yielded a mix of 10k to 24k gold jewelry.

Some we hate to sell for melt as the chains are broken in two.

However, 2 or rather 3 items in particular we don’t know do we sell them privately versus sell for scrap melt.

First appears to be an older wedding band made somewhere in Asia.

Marked with 18KT as as a PT900 and has a single solitaire diamond approx 0.20-0.25 CT.

We run our numbers and the melt value is close to $450 CAD.

Also two Swarovski earrings.

They are marked 24k gold but have a lot of gems that we think are diamonds. The melt weight on the pair is just under $500. I just have no experience selling jewelry online.

We have a melt buyer coming to town next wee and of course we love the idea of just being told everything we’ve collected.

I think total were at $1800 in melt. Just worried we lose a lot.

Hey guys, I'm not into flipping yet but Im just curious about the shipping cost as I've read that it's mostly the biggest issue in this sub. I happen to live near the American border (5 minutes away), does it mean I can ship from the US right away and get a better margin than doing it from Canada ?

I sent a vintage CCM jersey recently using Stallion Express, and apparently the item was seized at the border for suspected counterfeit. The buyer reached out to me and showed me the letter they got from US Homeland Security outlining the situation. He explained to me that he has been in contact with the person who was listed in the document, but the agent will not release the item, telling the buyer it is counterfeit and there is nothing she can do.

I've emailed the agent explaining the background of the item, but I haven't got word back yet.

Has anyone else had this kind of experience? This is a first for me, I've never had an issue sending over jersey's before.

Planning to bid for Apple watch ultra. Thank you in advance.

This week I've had 4 "not shipped on time" defects applied to my account. I shipped them all on time but I guess the acceptance scan that PostNL tracking uses isn't acceptable and they were apparently delivered late. I've shipped hundreds of items using PostNL and hadn't had an issue until this week. Perhaps eBay altered the "international standard shipping" time frame, which was the shipping selection I was using.

I changed all of my listings to "international economy shipping" which added a few weeks to the delivery time frame and changed the PostNL tracking to Stallion's internal tracking, which I'm hoping shows an acceptance scan (it does with Fleet and ICS).

Just wanted to give a heads up. I tried to appeal two of them so far and was denied. Hopefully the remaining ones in transit don't ruin my Top Rated Seller status.

CBC Article: Consumers look to Value Village for a bargain. Many are finding 'ridiculous' markups

What are some items that worth flipping on Facebook marketplace

In the new year I’m really wanting to take reselling a lot more seriously. Rn I only do local reselling and it’s dead. I mostly thrift clothing at the moment so I’m wondering for people who sell clothes what platform do you prefer (and why): eBay, Poshmark, Depop or any others?

Thanks!

I wasn't using these services as the tracking didn't work with eBay, but it looks like it does now. Has anyone else used these? Any problems?

Does anyone do exclusively local reselling? I’m currently trying to just have a local reselling platform and rn using FB Marketplace, Craigslist and VarageSale. Anyone use anything else?

Buy pop/rap tickets at pre sale and sell near the show times around summer mostly in Toronto. Take all music's big names.

Anyone done this?

VHS for $4. Ultra common DVDs for $6. Hardcover books for $10+. Insanity! Who is gonna buy this stuff?? Lmao