This week in a nutshell

October 7, 2008 / Uncategorized / 2 Comments

The daily schedule for this week:

Get up, pay attention to kids, get them off to school
Work on postage printing, and shipping stuff until my brain completely shuts down.
Welcome kids home from school, make sure I reinforce the things that are happening at school because I’m in the process of helping two kids make course corrections.
Try not to get snippy at the noise of joyful play.
Make dinner, manage homework time, put kids to bed.

The shipping days and book release party are Thursday and Friday. I think sanity/relaxation are somewhere on the far side, but it is kind of hard to see from here.

2 thoughts on “This week in a nutshell”

  1. garyamort

    Amazon

    I was just mucking about Amazon’s cool services setup and was going through their shipping services to try to get handle on who would want to use such a service. So I thought of Schlock Mercenary since I know you handle your own fufillment and this sort of thing might be of value to you[of course, then I checked your website and noticed your using ASP so how you integrate I’m not sure]

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/fba/fba_faqs.html

    As I read it, for them to pick, pack, and ship say 1 Schlock Mercenary book sold through your website would cost:
    Pick and Pack: .60 [3.00 if oversize]
    Standard shipping: 1.60[7.00 if oversize]
    Under 1 pound: .45
    Total: 2.65[10.45 if oversize]

    For 2 day shipping:
    Pick and Pack: .60[3.00 if oversize]
    Expediated Shipping: 7.40 [10.00 if oversize]
    Under 1 pound: .55
    Total: 8.55 [13.55 if oversize]

    For next day shipping:
    Pick and Pack: .60[3.00 if oversize]
    Next day: 14.40[17.00 if oversize]
    Under 1 pound: 1.50
    Total: 16.50 [21.50 if oversize]

    Of course, there is a downside in that you get hit with storage charges, this time of year it 60 cents per month per cubic foot of product you store with them.

    But they don’t have any setup fees, so you can experiment with a few cubic feet and see how it works.
    They handle printing out the shipping labels, providing tracking numbers, picking and packing product, etc. [Note: if you sell through an amazon store as well, the shipping charges are less – presumably because it allows them to cross sell more product and combine shipping.]

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