Hi everybody, long time stalker of ozbargain here!
My wife and I are starting up an educational toy shop and are going to ship world wide, my dilemma is finding which is the cheapest and best company to go with!
I'm hoping someone here has some sort of advice!
Thanks everybody! We are located in Perth 🙂
Use Auspost letter post for any items that fit up to A4 and 20mm thick. Search ebay for 'letter mailer' to see the options for packaging.
Use Auspost letter post
This will be expensive if one wants online tracking.
There is no cheap way ship internationally with tracking.
Sorry, missed the international angle.
It's going to cost you like $30-$80 per small package, on the higher side if there are batteries involved because you need a courier.. More if you want to build in your own insurance from scamming buyers. Experience from posting hand-held game consoles overseas. Drop shipping from China isn't a bad suggestion.
Why don't you start off shipping within Australia, there is no simple answer to ship cheap internationally.
I have used SkippyPost as a cheaper alternative to Australia Post but they won't ship to all countries.
The first post is the only 'cheap' alternative, and many companies drop ship without anyone ever knowing. Depending on your suppliers, they can use your own packaging for drop shipping. Shipping from Aus to anywhere overseas is very expensive compared to shipping from Asia - like Quantumcat says even small packages will cost more than $30 - so unless you are selling high cost goods where you can absorb the shipping costs in margins, you would need to look at sending from elsewhere, even if you held stock in that location instead of here in Australia. You might even save on having goods sent here, then sending them back overseas unless locally manufactured (which is rare these days).
Some info here:
https://www.choice.com.au/shopping/shopping-for-services/ser…
Might be worth seeing what Amazon are doing with third party merchants - first in aus, and then to other countries. They would want their share of course, but would provide reach and deal with the logistics side/accept cards. They have some conference for merchants in Sydney in Nov.
What would drive international customers to buy from your site? Are you selling a unique product not found on say Amazon?
I feel your international shipping costs might cause buyers to look locally.
have you looked at Sendle?
drop ship from china.