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| | | Author: | MrPetovan  | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 06:39 | | Subject: | Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 175 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Yesterday I had an unusual experience: I received a BrickLink order that I wasn’t
expecting since I wasn’t the intended recipient!
I offered the Canadian seller to reship the package domestically to the intended
American address, but I couldn’t use PayPal shipping because I didn’t receive
an associated order.
So I created an account on stamps.com, the onboarding is pretty-straightforward,
I was soon able to create a one-time shipping label for UD $3.49, but I realized
that I had a remaining balance of $1.51 since stamps.com decided to charge me
a full US $5.
While trying to find how to retrieve my balance on my credit card, I find out
I was subscribed to a US $17.99 /month plan! There was a button to cancel it,
but the website still tried to upsell me the US $4.99/month plan that wasn’t
even part of the choices on the plan selection page.
Eventually, I was able to cancel my account and since my remaining balance was
greater than US $1, I should get it back, but the whole experience felt bitter
to me giving the absence of consent for several decisions stamps.com made for
me.
I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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| | | | | Author: | C0lsanders_ | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 07:14 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Paypal Shipnow (https://www.paypal.com/shiplabel/create ). No order or payment
received needed.
Miles (C0lsanders_)
In Shipping, MrPetovan writes:
| | Yesterday I had an unusual experience: I received a BrickLink order that I wasn’t
expecting since I wasn’t the intended recipient!
I offered the Canadian seller to reship the package domestically to the intended
American address, but I couldn’t use PayPal shipping because I didn’t receive
an associated order.
So I created an account on stamps.com, the onboarding is pretty-straightforward,
I was soon able to create a one-time shipping label for UD $3.49, but I realized
that I had a remaining balance of $1.51 since stamps.com decided to charge me
a full US $5.
While trying to find how to retrieve my balance on my credit card, I find out
I was subscribed to a US $17.99 /month plan! There was a button to cancel it,
but the website still tried to upsell me the US $4.99/month plan that wasn’t
even part of the choices on the plan selection page.
Eventually, I was able to cancel my account and since my remaining balance was
greater than US $1, I should get it back, but the whole experience felt bitter
to me giving the absence of consent for several decisions stamps.com made for
me.
I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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| | | | | Author: | bricks2you | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 07:22 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Paypal, if you are using multiorder shipping for labels, there is a link on
top right side that says create label. Or from the home page click shipping labels
then label for another kind of order.
In Shipping, MrPetovan writes:
| | Yesterday I had an unusual experience: I received a BrickLink order that I wasn’t
expecting since I wasn’t the intended recipient!
I offered the Canadian seller to reship the package domestically to the intended
American address, but I couldn’t use PayPal shipping because I didn’t receive
an associated order.
So I created an account on stamps.com, the onboarding is pretty-straightforward,
I was soon able to create a one-time shipping label for UD $3.49, but I realized
that I had a remaining balance of $1.51 since stamps.com decided to charge me
a full US $5.
While trying to find how to retrieve my balance on my credit card, I find out
I was subscribed to a US $17.99 /month plan! There was a button to cancel it,
but the website still tried to upsell me the US $4.99/month plan that wasn’t
even part of the choices on the plan selection page.
Eventually, I was able to cancel my account and since my remaining balance was
greater than US $1, I should get it back, but the whole experience felt bitter
to me giving the absence of consent for several decisions stamps.com made for
me.
I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 07:31 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, MrPetovan writes:
| | I offered the Canadian seller to reship the package domestically to the intended
American address, but I couldn’t use PayPal shipping because I didn’t receive
an associated order.
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As others have pointed out, the PayPal shipping facility has the ability print
a single adhoc label. It isn't promoted heavily, but the link has been passed
down from seller to seller for a number of years. When I receive an order requiring
more than one package, it's where I go to for the second package's label.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 08:01 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, MrPetovan writes:
| | I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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PirateShip - no fees.
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| | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 08:31 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Thank you for the hint, I was hesitating between stamps.com and pirateship.com
and I had to pick one first.
In Shipping, peregrinator writes:
| | In Shipping, MrPetovan writes:
| | I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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PirateShip - no fees.
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| | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 08:33 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Thank you all for the PayPal hint, I did look for this feature through the menus
and as I wasn’t able to find it I thought it didn’t exist. Now I know what I’ll
be looking for of this happens again!
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| | | | | Author: | brac.brick | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 10:42 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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Eventually, I was able to cancel my account and since my remaining balance was
greater than US $1, I should get it back, but the whole experience felt bitter
to me giving the absence of consent for several decisions stamps.com made for
me.
I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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Stamps.com is a fee for service plan type of shipping program. As others have
mentioned PP has a multi order option or use Pirate Ship to pay for just 1 label.
Both PP & Pirate Ship will give you discounted rates.
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| | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 10:52 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Thank you for the elaboration, this is what I gathered but only after the fact.
If I had had to choose from three plans starting at US $17.99 per month during
the Stamps.com account creation, I would have stopped right there and tried Pirate
Ship next. This and the flat US $5 charge for a US $3.49 label were completely
unexpected to me and made feel like I was being taken advantage of.
In Shipping, brac.brick writes:
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Eventually, I was able to cancel my account and since my remaining balance was
greater than US $1, I should get it back, but the whole experience felt bitter
to me giving the absence of consent for several decisions stamps.com made for
me.
I can see its appeal for a regular shipper (even though US $17.99/month still
sounds hefty to me), but it is absolutely not the right tool to generate a single
shipping label in a pinch.
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Stamps.com is a fee for service plan type of shipping program. As others have
mentioned PP has a multi order option or use Pirate Ship to pay for just 1 label.
Both PP & Pirate Ship will give you discounted rates.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2021 11:10 | | Subject: | Re: Beware of stamps.com for one shot shipping | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, MrPetovan writes:
| | Thank you for the elaboration, this is what I gathered but only after the fact.
If I had had to choose from three plans starting at US $17.99 per month during
the Stamps.com account creation, I would have stopped right there and tried Pirate
Ship next. This and the flat US $5 charge for a US $3.49 label were completely
unexpected to me and made feel like I was being taken advantage of.
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In a sense you were. Stamps.com advertises fairly heavily, and they need to operate
on that business model. PayPal does not, to my knowledge, advertise their postage
capability. It's just there. I know sellers who use Stripe to receive payments,
but flip over to PayPal to generate the postage, and avoid Stamps.com. The one
thing I wish PayPal would support, is attaching parameters to the inbound URL,
to pre-fill all the fields.
Nita Rae
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