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Selling plants on ebay?
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Posted by hedwig QLD Brisbane (My Page) on Sun, May 10, 09 at 23:49
I did some stalls selling plants, and I consider selling some on ebay as well. Has someone experience? Is it worth all the running, packing and emailing? How did you pack them?
I sell edibles mostly herbs. |
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RE: Selling plants on ebay?
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| you better work out a good way to ship them or you will lose money replacing them. more and more companies are shipping plants now. It seems like a good market. Just get a good way to ship them and you are all set. You can practice by putting them into a box for 3 or 4 days open the box and see if they will live. The lowest cost is going to be to ship them bare roots. no soil. tomatoes and peppers will ship bare roots as will many other things like onions etc. but you want a good healthy plant to go bare root. If you do ship with a root ball then packaging gets tricky so the plant does not move around and break off the stem. you might want to find out how other companies ship successfully. |
RE: Selling plants on ebay?
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| You will also be shipping plants across state lines. You will have inspection issues and certificates to obtain even if they aren't perennial or nursery stock........what most states automatically require. This is not a big deal, not expensive, but something you need to research before you start doing it to make sure you stay legal and don't end up fined. |
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