
Have you tried selling your stuff to oversea customers?
I have deep passion in cross stitching, handmade crafts such as making greeting cards and gifts from recycle items. I had planned to sell them online at Listing dock and Ebay but I have a BIG problem. I am residing in Malaysia. I believe that majority buyers would be in foreign countries such as US,UK,Canada, Australia. Now, how do I suppose to add in the postage fee into my cost since the postage fee is different for each country? Furthermore I do not know the weight of the items after packaging.
SO, how do you estimate your cost without losing out? Have you tried selling your items to oversea customers?
SO, how do you estimate your cost without losing out? Have you tried selling your items to oversea customers?
November 17, 2017, 9:44 am
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Note that different platforms have different fees for listing and more. I wish you the best of luck
Who knows in the near future? It's a possibility.
thanks for your advice, I will try on selling to customers in my own country first. Then I will search about the postage fees for foreign countries.
I agree with you, it would be difficult to sell my stuff overseas since it may involve tax, service charge, postal service, declaration form, more expenses than I expected
This is extremely discouraging.For your handcrafted stuff I think you can use the marketplace like Esty or here listingdock list your products and take it up from there.
This is a long time waiting for an order, but if it's the only option... It's better to use a safe place to make the purchase (but it has to be something very special, haha).Thanks fot the feedback.In my opinion, this is the worst problem that can exist.
It helps to have something that's unique. If you're selling something only you or a few people can provide, then it will be easier to gain new customers for your products and services. I agree that you should consider selling in bulk as this will allow both you and your customer to save on expenses.
But according to the rules of most freelancing sites - once clients you meet at a freelancing site - try to lure freelancers into offsite contracts not protected by the sites terms of service policy itself - then it's a major red flag. That didn't worry me as much though since I have done business through paypal before. Invoices and all. But anytime someone asks for drivers license, bank account and credit card info for any job. Much less a remote (online) job where I'd be working a 1 month contract as their brand ambassador - that's a major warning sign.
i advertise to customers home and abroad, but noticed that more sales come from customers overseas than local customers. So, I decided to always set my target location to countries overseas.
stuff. Good luck...
I added my sitemap and chose US as my targeted map location whereas I live outside US. I have made lots of sales to customers in US due to the tons of traffic my website generates for me daily.
In that case, yes, I am trying to sell my services to another country. The other country happens to be just next door to mine. In fact, I was in the other country for more than two decades. So I have a pretty good idea of what's going on over there. Now that I am back in my own country, I am still very much in contact with my friends and students in the other country.
What problems do I face?
Not much really. That's mainly because I already know the language of the other country. I can speak and read their language quite well. So selling my services to them is not a problem. I am actually making live broadcasts with extra explanations in their language.
Some of this sites do free shipping, they don't collect money for it depending on your personal relationship (business wise) with them and the type of agreement, there are some who do the shipping for you it depends on your personal interest.