How do you spend your quarterly eBay Subscription Coupon for Shipping Supplies?

[aperture]

It is that time of year again for eBay shipping supplies (link: https://www.flippertools.com/tools/wheres-my-ebay-coupon/ )

Do you have eBay shipping supplies that you prefer to buy? Are there ones you avoid?

I hate eBay tape – makes the box look ugly and it is scary thin.

Thanks, Daniel.

[Ryanne]

i love polymailers and ebay tape! wish they had ebay branded bubble wrap and peanuts, though i know they never will, but those would be super helpful supplies.

[Mark S]

Not much to choose from anymore. There are like 17 items to choose from.

I mostly stick to boxes, Tissue paper, poly mailers, and tape. Not much left from there.

Mark S

[antarestar]

I like to keep the stickers on hand. I don’t use them often but find they come in handy for taping bubble wrap or paper – stuff that is inside the box and would look nice if that was the first thing you noticed when you opened it. Sometimes it’s easier to grab one of those rather than wrestling with a tape dispenser.

[almasty]

I always buy a ton of the 9.5″ x 13.25″ bubble mailers.
I usually buy a box of the 8.5″ x 10.75″ bubble mailers.

I sometimes buy the 14.5″ x 18.5″ poly mailers, but I find the savings is better on the bubble mailers overall than the poly mailers. If I run out of the huge poly mailers, I am better off just buying them from another seller.

[almasty]

Seriously, Ebay??

Congrats! You are buying from a seller in eBay’s new managed payments experience.

This seller accepts payments through eBay’s new managed payments experience.
PayPal is not yet available, but you can pay securely with a credit or debit card.
Your payment information will never be shared with sellers.

Grrrrr…

I guess I’ll put my order in later! Who has their credit card on them at all times in order to constantly input it in to buy on Ebay? This would be a real hassle for buying on the phone.

[Mark S]

Almasty,

I had a similar reaction.

That was a pain that they didn’t take Paypal. I didn’t order as much as I was going to. I think they are going to lose sales because of that. Bad planning or bad decision making on that one!

Mark

[aperture]

Thanks for feedback. I will give the polymailers a try.

[Nancy]

I usually get tape or poly mailers.

This year I’m going to wait until ebay has one of its day long sales on everything and use my coupon on that day.

[totommyto]

I normally go for the 6X4X4 boxes or the tape

[T-Satt]

90% boxes, 10% polymailers when we need them, though I have a solid source for those now.

[buytikiselltiki]

Big fan of 6x4x4 and 8x6x4 boxes – have gotten the larger ones but too much wasted space. Oh, for a few “free” 8x8x8s!

Still working through large stacks of bubble mailers , polymailers at the bottom of the list.

No interest in tape or tissue paper – both cost so little in the real world.
It would be great if there were a few less expensive items to round up , always seem to leave a little behind.

Also surprised to be charged sales tax, dont remember that before.
Straight the credit card – PayPal suppression !!!

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