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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Back when I did ebay, we used DYKpost for US packages. They're a local remailer. With them, you have a US post office box in Montana and you buy US tracked postage online using that return address. You take your package to DYKpost and then once a day DYKpost drives all the packages from their Calgary customers across the border and mails them from some small town in Montana. It worked pretty well, and it brought the price for tracked shipping to the US down to about $5-$6 included the DYKpost fee. It might be more now, but other than the having to drive to the DYKpost warehouse to drop off packages multiple times a week, it was convenient and cheaper than the other options.
Edit: I used Shippo to buy the US postage. I think there might have been some other company I also used at one point, but I think Shippo had a good website that was easy and fast to use.
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There are a few reshipping services that definitely make sense if you have enough volume. They'll save you a few dollars per item. The downside is that they make dealing with shipping and customer issues more complicated.
I just sold Bennett and Tkachuk rookie cards for about $100 each, and the shipping was only $6-7 each. Shipping costs were a bit of a non-factor there. That's a great price for shipping with tracking and insurance.
Another issue is that Ebay has started charging sales tax on items, which cuts into profit too, which is based on the max buyers will pay. For comic books, you only pay GST though, which is nice, as they are PST exempt. I guess not a factor in Alberta to start with.