Thinking of doing this.
However it seems very different to what i expected. I made an account, have quite low limits.
Do you have to list shipping costs to every country? Or does ebay calculate this for you if someone buys it overseas as they did in my home country?
Secondly is the situation with postage any better than early pandemic? I cant imagine people will pay like 15,000 yen shipping for tracking.
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Shipping is still fucked.
Yes, used to.
Used to sell a lot of printer parts, anime goods, and some other random stuff.
Now with this ridiculous shipping fee it’s very hard to sell anything. My sales dropped 90% and I have to keep an eye on JP Post website to see which countries they still shipping or if they suspended to “xx” country again.
You have to calculate the shipping fee yourself.
It’s not that hard since shipping fee is based on zones.
Europe Zone
North America Zone
Not even sure if it’s profitable unless you just want to do it for fun.
The limit they put is temporary.
I started with $200 limit, after my first 2-3 sales they increased to $5000 and 200 items and so on.
>is the situation with postage any better than early pandemic
It is a little better, but still fucked. Places like Canada you can’t send any packages to via JP post, but you can with DHL.
US has gotten back to normal-ish if you are using EMS.
> I cant imagine people will pay like 15,000 yen shipping for tracking.
In general, you can send a 500-1k package to most parts of the world for around 3000-5000 with EMS or DHL. But for DHL you should open a business account with a third party that can get you the premo rates.
Also, Yamato is an option. They have good rates, but I always have to lie about what I am sending cause a lot of times there is food inside and they don’t get down with that.
I used to but it’s awful. Shipping is a massive pain and I ran into so many scammers (people wait for the item to be shipped then immediately demand a refund claiming they didn’t receive it, super obnoxious).
I only use Mercari now (I sell Pokémon collectibles sometimes) and if people outside Japan want stuff, I direct them to use proxy services so I don’t have to deal with their bs directly. Or they can pay FF through PayPal… but few are willing to take that risk since they can’t demand a refund.