Shipping

[britt17bw-0]

I have multiple large and heavy vintage items (furniture) for sale on my ebay store and mainly only have them listed for local pickup only.  I am unsure of how to input the correct shipping information for these large heavy items to be purchased through shipping?  Can anyone please help1 guide me through the correct steps on how to do so?  It would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!!!!

[dryophelia]

@britt17bw-0 

Just because an item can be listed here, doesn’t mean this is the best option. 

I see a yellow chair for $787. The kicker, shipping to California is less than $25. I think shipping will be closer to $125 because it is oversized. I’m not sure how one would even package that item for shipping. 

Compare that chair to the shadow box mirror. It shows $300+ for shipping the mirror to the same location. 
How confident are you with your packaging skills? It will need to be packaged well enough to survive falling down a couple flights of stairs. The machines handling packages have no finesse. Boxes fall off trucks, they fly off conveyors and bigger, heavier boxes will fall on them, at some point. 
(The mirror listing doesn’t seem to have any measurements in the listing. Customers will way to know its size.)

Then there is the air purifier that shows shipping to CA for $100+. 

Don’t ship big items. Local pick up only. 
I wouldn’t even waste my time putting them here. List on a local marketplace and accept only cash. 

[momdadsstash]

Have you checked into Greyhound for shipping those larger items?

I once sold a 1920s cedar chest that had to go across country that way. Great as long as there's a station close enough .