posted on September 21, 2010 02:27:42 AM new
Anyone know if it is possible to print postage at PayPal for an item not sold on eBay or paid for with PayPal? I have looked but could not find a way to do this.
posted on September 21, 2010 03:45:08 AM new
You can go to any past transaction and scroll down to the bottom where it said print another label .
I dont use Paypal to print overseas label when I ship first class ,so I will use that transaction,edit the address and print from there.
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There is no 'Global savings glut',only wild horses and loose bankers.
posted on September 21, 2010 01:27:59 PM new
You can also look to the right side of the page for Multi Order Shipping. There you can create a label for anyone you like.
You can use a past transaction as hwahwa suggested but the person will get a notice. I did that once and the buyer thought I had somehow broke into their paypal account to pay for a label. Not pretty.
posted on September 21, 2010 04:06:58 PM new
or like what Bill does,goto USPS website and print a label and pay with your Paypal debit card ,you get 1 1/2% rebate .
I do this when I use USPS priority for overseas shipment
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There is no 'Global savings glut',only wild horses and loose bankers.
posted on September 21, 2010 05:21:56 PM new
Only problem with the USPS website is they no longer let you print parcel post labels. I sell a few guns and BB guns and they are parcel post.
posted on September 21, 2010 05:56:35 PM new
Shipping Assistant will do labels such as 1st Class Mail, Media Mail, and Parcel Post. However you will need to use your own postage. Purchase postage with your PayPal card and realize a discount of 1.5% on your purchase.
Shipping Assistant provides a DC number which is emailed to your customer. I now no longer send an email to the buyer. The USPS sends a nice official email instead. Both Shipping Assistant and Click-N-Ship notify the buyer when a label is generated.
The 1.5% discount when using the PayPal Debit Card to purchase postage at Click-N-Ship or from the USPS adds up to tidy sum every month.
posted on September 21, 2010 06:08:45 PM new
You can add fund into your paypal account and go shopping with your Paypal debot card,1 1/2% can add up.
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There is no 'Global savings glut',only wild horses and loose bankers.
posted on September 21, 2010 08:50:45 PM new
I usually have to log into PayPal at least once a day anyway so my preference is PayPal Multi-Order Shipping. Keeps my shippig reports tidy too.
My time is worth much more than the .015 paypal rebate I might earn using a debit card with Click&Ship. C&S is a good program and serves a good purpose but to me is too much of a hassle.
posted on September 21, 2010 10:14:05 PM new Apparently, some of us, do not need the extra cash. For me, that 1.5% can total an amount equal to a good sale every month. And, it's pure profit. Add up your total shipping for the month and multiply by 1.5% - that money is going to PayPal not you.
posted on September 22, 2010 05:12:42 AM new
I tossed me PayPal debit card in the trash a long time ago. They called me every time I used it and I was using it 4 or 5 times a week. After a month of this and asking them to stop I was told another company handled that so nothing PayPal could do to stop the calls.
I went with the PayPal Multi-Order Shipping.Thanks to all.
[ edited by toolhound on Sep 22, 2010 05:13 AM ]
posted on September 22, 2010 06:09:21 AM new
Actually Bill I make my money on the other end. Instead of letting PayPal use my money and pay me their low MM rate, my money gets moved into a local MM account earning more than twice as much as the PP account would pay. I use a non-PP credit card that pays 5% on gas purchases, 2% on travel related expenses and 1% on all other purchases. Net works out to be better than PP's 1.5%
I also feel better knowing my money is in the bank instead of sitting there exposed to PP/ebay's ever pending threat to freeze an account for whatever reason they choose.
PayPal is a necessary evil for an online business but I prefer to not give them anymore power than necessary.
If I were to use Click and Ship or USPS Shipping Assistant for postage and pay it with a PP cc, not only would I not earn as much but I would have more time invested in manually entering shipping data and managing reports as well as having to manually update ebay.
I had consider using Stamps.com but just have not gotten around to running the numbers yet to see if it would be worth the move.
Stamps now has a free program for eBay shippers. The upside to using Stamps.com would be that your ebay transactions are easily imported and I think you can still upload a shipping manifest of your non-ebay shipments so there would be less manual entry time, consolidated shipping reports and less chance of typing errors.
If anyone has looked into the Stamps.com offer I am sure we would all love to hear your opinion. Perhaps that needs to be a new thread?
posted on September 22, 2010 09:09:13 AM new
"I use a non-PP credit card that pays 5% on gas purchases, 2% on travel related expenses and 1% on all other purchases. Net works out to be better than PP's 1.5%"
Basically, you pull the money from Paypal and then pass on those "reward" fees to the merchants you use your card at. The gas station owner where you purchase your gas and get those bonuses ends up losing money b/c the bank that you use for that card charges the merchant a higher fee. Gas stations make a few cents per gallon. So, when they get hammered with double fees to process your reward card they lose pretty much all the money.
If you like buying from local merchants, you'd ditch the Rewards card and use a regular credit card or even better... a debit card or cash. These CC processing fees really rack up against local merchants.
You're hurting your community by taking money away from them and putting it into the Executives hands at Paypal or some major bank that sets up these reward programs to make more money off of small businesses who can't negotiate their rates like big box stores can. That is what pays for your rewards.
Many people don't care as long as they get something for nothing. The problem is that your community suffers. Local businesses fold up, jobs leave, you're left buying junk at WalMart or Target or some other box store because you have limited choices in products. In turn, people who owned those businesses, people who worked for those businesses disappear. Your neighborhood suffers, crime increases, your property values decrease... all the while some Prince in Saudi Arabia who owns large shares in Chase bank gets richer and funds terrorists who attack us. Then you wonder why your town is crumbling apart, why your property value has dwindled, and why people like the Bin Laden family can afford to support radicals who hate us.
Sounds absurd, but the reality is that this is exactly what happens when we don't think about how we spend our money.
posted on September 22, 2010 11:16:28 AM new
What you guys are writing makes no business or mathematical sense. Sure, you both transfer your funds from PayPal to other accounts. That is great, I do the same.
However, it makes no sense to think that you are maximizing all sources of income without purchasing shipping using the PayPal Debit Card at Click-N-Ship, or the Post Office. When using their debit card, PayPal will refund to you, 1.5% of the same money that you are now using to purchase shipping labels from PayPal.
Do I use the PayPal Debit Card to buy other than shipping? Not frequently. However, the payment for shipping is made with their debit card to realize an extra 1.5% on the money.
And, remember that the 1.5% is not a compounded amount - the 1.5% is realized immediately at purchase, not compounded over a period of time.
Apparently, some of us, do not need the extra cash. For me, that 1.5% can total an amount equal to a good sale every month. And, it's pure profit. Add up your total shipping for the month and multiply by 1.5% - that money is going to PayPal not you.