EIS is a pain
Summary: treadstone68 shares their struggle with estimating shipping weights accurately for the EIS program, fearing removal for discrepancies, and describes their method of adding extra grams to account for labels and forms. transtraders mentions a simpler method of adding weight for packing materials, while john_koenig99 states they haven't faced any issues, as their items are small and lightweight. The discussion highlights the challenges and strategies for shipping weight estimations.
Unless an item is small or already in it's own box, I find that using Calculated shipping with the EIS program is painful. My biggest weakness is estimating how much the final shipment weight will be, and according to ebay if your weight is too far off in either direction, you could get booted from the program. So what I end up doing is packing my item in a box, with whatever packing material I have on hand, and weighing it. I then add an extra 50 grams to account for the shipping label and customs forms.
Does anyone else do this? What has been your experience?
john_koenig99
·3 days agoI haven't had any issues at all with shipping to eIS. Mind you, my listings are all small, light weight items.
treadstone68
OP2 days agoDid it occur to you that someone might be selling items of various sizes and weights ??
transtraders
·4 days agoI just weigh the item and add 200-300 grams for box/packing for small items. Larger items I usually double the weight of the item or just pack it and get the exact weight.
treadstone68
OP2 days agoYou must of missed the fine print that says you will be kicked out of the program if your package weight is too far off from the actual weight. Of course they leave it vague and don't quantify how much you can be off, or how many times. Also 200-300 grams is nothing going to cut it when you have many different items of various sizes.