Just wanted to thank a fellow Bonanzler who was kind enough to leave this response to a post I commented on within Bonanzle, Most of the time I'm left with a bad taste after recieving negative responses to S/H comments as many disagree with idea of making a profit on S/H.
Thank you Salvage Inc

Comment and my post below,

Wonderful Words of Wisdom. Your words Worth repeating exactly as You Said and a copy on my office wall as well.

But remember one important thing when it comes to shipping, WE are in business to make a profit, Therefore doing exact shipping is plain bad business practices, Everything involved it shipping a product to your buyer involves cost and if you fail to include those ether in the mark up of your products or in Handling at some point down the road it will bite you in the b***.

I had a fellow awhile back on another venue say he spent a whole year selling only to find at the end of the year he had actually lost money because he forgot to factor in all his overhead costs, How sad.

Cost include Shipping and Handling, Printers, Ink , Paper, Packing materials, Wear and tear on your PCs,Then there are Paypal fee’s, Bonanzle fee’s, Your time, Gas and wear and tear on your vehicle to and from the Post office and on and on.Hopefully folks are keeping track of all this stuff and not like the guy who at the end of the year found out the hard way,Many Brick & Mortar store find this out the hard way, They just flat run out of money and close shop.

Many of the Antique shops where I use to work have closed there doors, If you fail to make a profit at some point you will run out of cash as many have done already, Even very old establish firms in our area have closed.

What's new in my world 2010?

Wow, This last year flew by, Can't believe we are here already. Well our Bonanzle booth did well in 2009, Can't complain. Hoping for a much better year in 2010. January will be a time of extensive bookkeeping and then It will be time to dig into revampin all 3,300 listings.

Well in November we opened a new store front on SOC Exchange, Maybe you've heard of it, Maybe not. It's a pretty simple format and cost is $1.00 a month or $10 year in advance, We started by running a few test items to see how things worked, After 2 months we got our first offer for a $10 sale, Followed by a $50 dollar sale, That was enough to get my marketing juices boiling and now I have 52 items in our store at R Sales Online 2. I used the same ID as Bonanzle, So far so good.

www.socexchange/rsalesonline2

There is a big difference between Bonanzle and SOC in that there is no community and very little support, So you better know what you are doing there. Both sales were offers and once accepted neither buyer coudls figure out how to checkout, Easy fix was to just request payment via Paypal and that worked fine.

I'm still waiting after a week for a return email from support, there are no commission fee's here at SOC, So once you pay your subscription your all set, The listing format is pretty simple as it is only one page and allow 7 pictures as well as You-tube up loads to your page, Placement is a problem with the videos in that they cover part of your description which you have no control over.

All in all it's a fun site and I'm looking forward to adding more inventory as time goes by.We have no duplication in this site, Everything is separate from Bonanzle.

As I mentioned or maybe didn't a while back, We have "had" stores on Ebay, Blujay, Ecrater,ProBidz,Yahoo and WagglePop. I have to say bonanzlehas been the best, Since support is awesome and has remained the same since we started with them in Sept 2008. You won't find a better support system anywhere.Plus the community is awesome.

We are looking forward to a prosperous 2010, Wishing for all of you the best year ever, I know for many it's been real tough this last year, Things have to get better

Our thought and Prayers are with each and everyone of our readers.

God bless from Larry & Charline Harris @ R Sales Online