Original Video: Shippig costs on wands

What is up YouTube? So before I do what I gotta do for the day, I'd like to address an issue that I had a customer on my Etsy store. He, uh… He or she wrote, with what you charge for shipping, you should have the items packaged and shipped through a retail shopping store, expediting the process. my shipping process on Etsy. The packages when the wands come in the tubes or in the boxes are usually one pound or less. Etsy does not allow me to accurately type in the correct weights. The packages aren't even a full pound. So if I try to type in one half pound on the pound section, like how many pounds does it weigh, so they can accurately guess shipping rates for each wand, I try typing in one slash half to represent half a pound and Etsy pops up with you need you need to type in a whole number. How can you type half a number into a whole number when it's only half a number? See what I'm saying? Mathematically it doesn't add up, it doesn't make sense. So I do apologize for those of you who feel like you're paying a little too much on shipping, but to be fair, I end up paying like 77 to a little over 100 bucks to ship these wands out through the United States post office. So I'm not charging that much for shipping and again I apologize if Etsy is being inconvenience. You know what I'm saying? So for future reference, you go to buy a wand and you're like, what the fuck? Why is Etsy charging me $15 for shipping? You know what I'm saying? Again, I apologize for the inconvenience of it all because it's not my fault. Eppsie won't let me type. Like, you don't have to believe me if you don't want to, but I try typing in one half on how much it weighs to show that it weighs half a pound or less. And Eppsie gives me a message saying no slashes, slash, no slashes, or slashes. how much it weighs to show that it weighs half a pound or less. And Etsy gives me a message saying no slashes, dashes, or this and that. Must be a whole number. So the package could end up being a pound or less. That's why it's typed like that. It's not because I'm trying to jit people out of their money. It's because Etsy refuses to let me accurately type it in. So I'm hoping to make this video so that hopefully Etsy can fix it when you're listing your items. And if they don't fix it, then I honestly hope that customers understand it is what it is. Do you think I like doing that to my customers? Fuck no, dude! I would love to accurately be able to list my items for what they are. Everything else I list them for is accurate, what color they are, what kind of product they are, a finished product, you know I can accurately measure the length of said wand with a tape measure, so you at least get the accurate, you know what I'm saying, and the wand will be like two inches or less in thickness because again it doesn't let me accurately type in the exact thickness of it or the exact weight of the product when I'm in the package. So I have to go off of very rough dimensions when typing the thickness of the wand and the weight of the package. That's why I'll type like one inch thickness for the wand, for example, because, you know, if I take my wand off the shelf and I grab my wand off the shelf and I grab my wand off the shelf and I grab my tape measure, you see that? If I measure the thickness of an average wand, like this is my personal wand, I sell wands like these on Etsy for $24 a pot. They usually don't have stuff like this on it. This is just my little extra deal on mine. But to prove a point, look at that when I measure the wand, average this is about as thick as my wands normally are. Not too skinny, not too thick, just right. If I go to stick to take measure and measure it's the thickness is not even a full inch. You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? Now for the sake of good business practice, a lot of people who don't understand, they're like, like, good business practice. A lot of people who don't understand they're like did for the pressure paying you could be having your own store and expediting these and blah blah blah yeah I know but for the price I pay at the post office to ship them off to you and because the fact that Etsy doesn't have an accurate way of typing in certain stats like how much they weigh in the thickness of them and stuff like that. So this video is going to be called in regards to shipping with my wands. I'll just call it shipping with my wands to make it easier. And that being said, I sincerely hope that it doesn't deter you from making a purchase of one of my finally handcrafted wands. I literally go around town collecting sticks to make these wands are handcrafted wands. I literally go around town collecting sticks to make these wands. These wands are handcrafted by yours truly. You know what I'm saying? Like I'll sit here in my apartment and I'll wiggle these wands out and I'll make them start to finish. You know what I'm saying? Now I've had help from my dad who's also collected sticks from like North Dakota and stuff when he goes to visit, but his last couple of batches I've been collecting sticks for myself. So I appreciate the love and the help and the support that I get on my Cobra Craft Wands business both from my dad and from my fans and my family or which I can my fans are like my family you know what I'm saying so yeah you know I'm saying like I've had fans come out of the woodworks and They make me buttons and they make me stickers and stuff like that. I really do appreciate that and these buttons and these stickers are a great way to have a little something extra added to the wands. Oh shit. And the last couple of batches I forgot to include a Cobra Craft wand sticker but that's all right I'll be sure do that with this batch which is a nice way for fans to get a little something something besides the wand I still have three more vocal cover videos that are uploading from yesterday My internet is going to be working double time to do this right now, but I've also got a pipe thoughts video I'm uploading from earlier. You know, sat down. What is a pipe thoughts video? It's basically me just smoking my pipe and talking. You know, speaking my mind on a couple of things and just, you know,all know why things are what they are. And speaking of wands, I'll be collecting sticks here in a bit, so I'll catch you all later.