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Market => Product requests => Topic started by: shippyship on August 01, 2013, 02:19 pm

Title: Shipper services?
Post by: shippyship on August 01, 2013, 02:19 pm
Not sure where to put this, this seems like a good place to start.

Shortly I will be opening a vendor account with most products shipping direct from Ching Chong China. Thought it would be a good idea to have a domestic shipper to handle small / sample orders. How would I go about finding someone to do that? How likely would another vendor be to share their domestic shipper (at a fixed %), assuming I wasn't selling a directly competitive or substitute product?

Title: Re: Shipper services?
Post by: DefyCode on August 02, 2013, 07:45 pm
I do managed services in the central US. One my business streams is a managed distro facility. We have various dealers that store their product with us, once they need some or all of it shipped, we take care of that. We have 24/hr surveillance and occasional patrols. The cost depends on how much square footage your product consumes on our rack space. PM me if this interests you, if you want to talk specifics use my public key and send me yours.
Title: Re: Shipper services?
Post by: shippyship on August 04, 2013, 08:20 pm
I do not believe that the small scale nature (1 - 10grams mailed at a time, prolly even some 1/4g samples to start) of what I'm looking to do necessarily fits the ostensibly large-scale nature of the players you do business with. What I plan on initially having domestic would take up somewhere around 25 square and cubic inches of shelf space, or you could tape it to the bottom of the shelf above it and have it take up no effective space!

I just legitimately replied so I didn't have to type "bump," thank you.
Title: Re: Shipper services?
Post by: DefyCode on August 11, 2013, 01:44 am
That is quite small, not sure if the added overhead would be worth it. For that small of space we could probably arrange an on-movement fee structure, for example, 5% of the products value for initial storage, another 5% of the product's value when the time comes that you want to move it out. Total cost to you would be 10% of whatever it is you send. If/when you increase volume we can talk about a flat fee structure.
 Let me know what you think.