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How important is Saturday shipping really?

I've been selling  on eBay for 16 years and I am a smallish though constant power seller.  I have always shipped Saturday and if orders started to pile up on Sunday, I worked that day also.  So it's 24/7.  I'm tired of it and feeling burned out but I want to keep selling!  I guess I would just like to be able to have at least one day where I don't have to turn the computer on before I even have my tea!

 

Any opinions?  Thanks!!!

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How important is Saturday shipping really?

Saturday and Sunday are not business days. Monday thru Friday are. You are fully entitled to take the weekend off and feel no remorse about it. Smiley Happy

 

People get days off in their offline jobs. People with online jobs are no different. Just because you sell online doesn't mean you're not entitled to days off and a life.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.


We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell
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How important is Saturday shipping really?

THANK you!!

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How important is Saturday shipping really?

I guess it depends on why you are doing this. If you are selling part time to pick a little pin money in addition to your 9 to 5 job then it probably isn’t that important.

 

But there are some of us here, myself included, who do this as a full time business.

 

If someone buys something on a Friday or Saturday and they get it on Monday impressed they are with the speed of delivery.

 

That means that the next time they need something they may come back to you just because of that. More so than if they bought it on Friday or Saturday and didn’t get it until Wednesday or Thursday. Considering all the e-tailers out there that are promising next day delivery then 4-5 days is a turnoff.

 

Only you, and no advice from anyone here, can decide which is more important. Growing the business or kickin’ back.

 

As for myself, I work until 4PM Saturday which is the post office cutoff time and then unwind on Sundays. I’ve driven a NASCAR race car on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, gone skydiving, piloted a B-25 Mitchell Bomber and a P-51 Mustang, gone water jet skiing - well you get the idea. Working full time doesn’t mean you can’t still carve out some fun time.

 

 

 

 

 

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand
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