How to Pack and Ship Books for Ebay and Whatnot [Bubblewrap ASMR]

Thank you!

Hello whatsvthe best ship setting for books. I'm sure I did media mail and I just sold a book and it charged customer over $21

Super helpful video. Didn't expect to find a nifty to the point guide to help me pack books for my business. Thank you so much!

What's the size of poly mailers you're using in this vdo?

Thanks! Excellent content!

Starting from scratch, how do you address the book? Are there stickers? What does the finished package look like just before you drop it in the mail box?

Omg thank you for this video I bought a 100 pack of poly mailers from Amazon and I just sold my first book on eBay and was wondering if anyone else used poly bags for shipping books. Most of the answers and info I’ve read online have been that people use boxes or those sturdier bubble mailers for books. I don’t have boxes atm but planning on getting some soon and the bubble mailers I have only fit smaller books. The book I sold is like 11 inches tall and wide and I have more items around these dimensions which was my reasoning for getting the poly mailer bags which are around 19 x 14.5. I have bubble wrap so I’ll just make sure to wrap it well since it’s a collectible type of book

This is much better than the method the last guy who mailed me a book, used. (I'm guessing here.)
Step 1: Drink too much alcohol
Step 2: Drop kick the book a few times.
Step 3: Put book in a bubble mailer too small for it and force it in
Step 4: Mail it
Step 5: Have another beer

Perfectly informative, and money saving to see we can use polymailers too! Thank you so much for this video!!!

Many thanks for the 'back of napkin' math on the bubble + mailer vs bubble mailers . . .

Where do you buy the poly bags you are using? I've been buying from the $1.25 tree , but would love to get different sizes for 5cents each. Thanks for the video. I'm shipping a few hardcover books. Thought about bubble wrap and filling in the gaps with peanuts.

You shipped me a pricey Whatnot book and my letter carrier absolutely stuffed it into my community mailbox. I had to tear off bits of the shipping envelope and reach in and remove the book. I then removed the envelope in pieces. The book was absolutely unharmed. I was impressed.

can you ship media mail on whatnot?

There's a better way to pack & ship books. Put the book in a plastic bag (Walmart bagel bags work well, and they're cheap), then wrap the book side to side and top to bottom with cardboard. Place the wrapped book in a poly mailer and you're good to go. No bubble wrap needed, and no special boxes. Just cut up used cardboard boxes; a guillotine paper cutter is easy to use and gives precise cuts. For best presentation, make sure the non-printed side of the cardboard faces outward.

I put mine in a plastic bag, and cut a couple of pieces of stiff cardboard to prevent bending, and tape off all four sides to brace, and then into the mailer. Bubble wrap is expensive and not necessary if you have access to cardboard. Have shipped hundreds of books with no problems. But, I aim to spend the least on packing materials as possible and use what is free and available.

How I do it too! 🎉

Hey Thrift, I like to do what you are doing with books & more. Would you Not Wrap Cardboard around for like comic books? Extra protection? Long Time Subscriber-Great Video! NwHillsPicker!

Thanks for sharing your resale knowledge! Could you please share SEO words or phrases to use in eBay titles - maybe for different categories?

Would you mind telling me where i can buy your tape dispenser ? Thanks

Great info. Looking forward to next book auction. I can hear Enya... sail away, sail away, sail away

Thanks Matt!

Thanks
I always learn so much from you!

Those cardboard “book mailers” look like LP mailers. I don’t know if they’re different, depends on the size I guess, but I’m a vinyl collector of 30+ years and I’ve sold vinyl for over 20 now, so I have LP mailers laying around for that purpose. Many times I’ve grabbed an LP mailer to ship books/magazines/any item that’s fairly flat. Searching LP mailers might be the way to go, there’s no substantive difference between a record and a book.

You know what you need? Automated sales of a digital information product that you market through video content. Anyone who’s considering being even a part time reseller would jump at the opportunity to pay $39.95 for four hours of video, 200 sample listings, and 30k words. You could make that in two weeks, you probably have 80% of it already. Automate the entire thing, all digital products, delivery, processing, all of it.

You want to be a digital nomad and go where it’s cheap? Make your payments follow you and not be tied to physical inventory.

If you plan on selling your tabletop tape dispenser before you move—-me please! Let me know.

Lately my style of shipping books and CDs is I cut two pieces of cardboard that are an inch or so bigger than the book all around(I don't measure, I just eyeball it) Then I use this cling film shrink wrap that comes in 5" wide rolls and just go around and around until covered. The main thing is that now the corners are cardboard. Then I put it in a poly mailer. I have been using poly mails that are too big, 12x16 bigger than needed because I have them. I fold over the extra bag and use ebay tape that I got cheap using the store shipping discount. I get the cardboard for free from the cardboard only waste boxes that are behind most retail shopping centers. I get the cling wrap rolls in a box of 12 for 45-50 and the last box lasted me a couple of years. With the poly mailers I have started buy the different sizes in different colors so I can tell at a glance what it is.
Here is a video idea, show how you ship suits. I would not know how to do that and would have to search for a video on it. Not that I have suits to sell but after watching some of your vids I am thinking maybe I should look at the suit section in the store to see if anything good is there.

*There's no insurance for media mail, so anything over your particular tolerance for loss (Like $50 or whatever) is smart to go by another insured method. Shipping is more, but it helps with your risk tolerance.
**Nice video. I now know I'm overdoing it, lol. I normally do a cardboard wrap after the light bubble wrap.

Thank you so much! Learned a lot, as usual. God bless! 😊

Love this. Thanks

Why not use cardboard backing for all of them?

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For those that don't mind using USPS supplies, you can put the book in one of the small DVD boxes and then put that in a bag, along with the bubble wrap and cellophane of course.

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Can you spare a square?? 😅

One risk of shipping valuable books by Media Mail is that you can't buy insurance. Priority mail costs more but comes with $100 of insurance.

Your last few videos have been super high-value. THANK YOU!!

Good idea! I mostly sell new hardcovers, so I would be concerned the DJ may crease.

I just brought home a boxful of paperbacks from my mother's. I've been wondering how to ship them. Perfect timing!

I got the big roll of shrink wrap from Costco, 12 in x 3000 feet, I wrap the book in shrink wrap, which holds it together and protects it from moisture, and I use the 10x14 bubble padded mailers from eBay, that I use my quarterly coupon to buy. I've never had any complaints, if the book is smaller I fold it over and the book has even more protection. Sometimes I slip in a sheet or 2 of cardboard, extra protection from bending, if the weight allows it. Worked perfectly and it's simple, I got 5 star reviews down the line. I use a cardboard box only when I have multiple books to the same buyer and they don't fit in the padded envelope.

From the start, your packaging has always been great. All of my orders have always arrived in perfect condition. However, I don’t recognize any of those books from recent sales. Are you selling action adventure, military books on the side!!?

Thank you!

Thanks, bookmarked this! Have a great day!

Can you please link to the desk-top tape dispenser and the tape that you use? Thanks for the video and informative content

I've never sold anything on Whatnot, but is shipping through them or do you have to use something Pirate Ship? If it's through Whatnot directly, can you ship Media Mail? Thanks Matt good video, I have received a book from you can confirm it arrived in good condition.

As someone who has received one or two of these... I can confirm always arrives in perfect shape.

If I have a stack of books I'll just put them in a box after placing in a sleeve.

Thank you for your videos. I appreciate you for helping us. I have to mail books all the time.

I've shipped out thousands of books. I almost always use 2 pieces of cardboard for a book, -especially when the book cost at least $10.00. I recommend buying huge flat cardboard boxes from home depot, slice them down, and then make customized boxes for a book(Takes me 30 seconds)....then you don't even really need bubble wrap. If I have a first edition Stephen King book wrapped in bubble wrap, and i drop it on the floor so it lands on a corner, -that corner is going to get dented. That's why I don't trust bubble wrap. I once ordered a $100.00 vintage paperback off of Ebay(to resell) and it was mailed in a small bubble mailer,...it actually didn't get damaged, -but I thought whoever mailed it was an idiot. But yeah, there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Thank you for taking the time to change outfits between videos, it helps us not get confused. Gotta appreciate the two different outfits. Book Matt and Thrift Matt's own unique uniforms are the attention to detail that makes this no ordinary Edutainment Ecosystem.

Thanks. I take particular care of all the corners.