Originally Posted by
jlhmnj
Good information Steve. The big problem is finding low cost or free shipping material. The rising cost of postage and shipping materials is making it very difficult to justify buying and selling low value machines through the mail. Think I'll stick with small attachments and light stuff.
Jon
Yeah well the secret is twofold.....
1. Buy more machines than you sell and keep the packing materials....
2. Have a local company that does not mind you "harvesting" the materials that they receive things packed in.
My company occasionally get's too much packing material in and when that happens they let me know that I can swoop on some.
Twice now, I have even packed a box within a box and that box fully packed with just foam and shipped it to a seller in advance and said "please use these materials" they were thrilled to not have to deal with finding the right stuff. Funny that the virtually empty boxes arrived with almost no damage at all....
FYI - STAY AWAY from peanuts (foam or bio material...) they allow too much settling and shifting.