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| | | Author: | Brickspert_AU  | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2023 23:48 | | Subject: | International shipping from Australia | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Hi all, just wondering if it would be worth it to setup international shipping.
I'm in Australia in case you're wondering.
I know I don't have the biggest store, but I do have some older items that
are harder to come by (which has to count for something right).
Just wondering if it would be worth it to set up International shipping or if
the potential headaches that come out of shipping internationally are not worth
it.
Or should I wait until I have a larger store, or just not ship internationally
at all?
I hope this post is in the right place.
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| | | | | Author: | customery | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2023 00:13 | | Subject: | Re: International shipping from Australia | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| I'd love to find out too.
I post a LEGO minifigure to students who complete my online course or leave a
review. I posted one today from Brisbane, Australia to Toronto, Canada. AusPost
charged me $18.50. The rates went up a couple of years ago and a single minifig
is classed as a parcel now.
$18.50 postage on a single, tiny item that weighs 10g ad costs less than $10
to buy and custom print.
I've got 100s more branded mini-figures but I can't afford to ship them
now. I don't know how you could run a business using AusPost as your shipping
partner.
Australian brick sellers: who is better than AusPost?
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| | | | | | | Author: | ghyde | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2023 15:46 | | Subject: | Re: International shipping from Australia | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, customery writes:
| | I'd love to find out too.
I post a LEGO minifigure to students who complete my online course or leave a
review. I posted one today from Brisbane, Australia to Toronto, Canada. AusPost
charged me $18.50. The rates went up a couple of years ago and a single minifig
is classed as a parcel now.
$18.50 postage on a single, tiny item that weighs 10g ad costs less than $10
to buy and custom print.
I've got 100s more branded mini-figures but I can't afford to ship them
now. I don't know how you could run a business using AusPost as your shipping
partner.
Australian brick sellers: who is better than AusPost?
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I tried finding out and it seemed back then that almost every shipping method
is more expensive. I don't know if things have changed since then, but my
advice would be either to eat the shipping costs or keep looking. There may yet
be an undiscovered service that's cheaper to use and I would be interested
to know, if anyone finds a cheaper service.
Note however that the cheaper the service the more the chances are that damage
might occur during transit. Packaging always should consist of sufficient and
proper protection for whatever you're shipping.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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| | | | | Author: | molten.brick | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2023 09:52 | | Subject: | Re: International shipping from Australia | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| If you had more of some of those parts I'd buy them.
Our demand is big enough that you could sell them domestically just as easily
as overseas.
An overseas buyer could just as easily buy them domestically at a larger volume,
potentially cheaper per unit, and definitely cheaper postage cost.
In Shipping, Brickspert_AU writes:
| | Hi all, just wondering if it would be worth it to setup international shipping.
I'm in Australia in case you're wondering.
I know I don't have the biggest store, but I do have some older items that
are harder to come by (which has to count for something right).
Just wondering if it would be worth it to set up International shipping or if
the potential headaches that come out of shipping internationally are not worth
it.
Or should I wait until I have a larger store, or just not ship internationally
at all?
I hope this post is in the right place.
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Australia, Tasmania
