 Today, we're talking about everyone's favorite topic. Shipping. What's up, guys? Welcome back. My name is stress. Here on Thumbs Up, we're talking about buying tickets, selling tickets, and making sure that you have all the fun with your tickets. Today, we're talking all about shipping, specifically how to ship your hard stock tickets to the end customer. I know a lot of you are selling tickets on the Stubb, Housbos, Seed, Seed Geeks, all around the world, so it's important that you guys know what's the right process and how you actually make sure that you get the tickets from yourself to the end customer. Let's get started. So today, I have five steps you need to follow, and that will ensure that nothing goes wrong. The worst thing that can happen is that you make a sale, you get the tickets ready to go, and then all of a sudden, you screw something up. Tickets don't make to the buyer in time. Don't get paid. They don't get to go to the event. No one is happy, and everybody loses. There's no losers here. We're all about winning. We're gonna be winning that shipping game right now. So step one, you need to print out a shipping label. Without a shipping label, you can't do anything. You don't know where the tickets are going. You'll never get there. So it's kind of important we get that done first. So jump into the exchange, whether it's StubHub, Vividseed, SeatGeek, whoever it may be. Go into the actual order page itself. Take a look and see what shipping label you're being provided. And on it, you'll say whether you're shipping through UPS or FedEx. Most resale marketplaces will use one of these two shipping companies predominantly, so just make sure you know who it's going to go with. If you try and send a UPS label to FedEx, they won't accept it. It will cause a lot of problems, so make sure you know who you're actually sending off your tickets through. Step number two, put the tickets in the envelope. I can't tell you how many times I've gone through this process. I printed out the shipping label. I put the label on the envelope. I seal up the envelope. I close it. I pick up the envelope. I'm ready to go outside. Now look down. And the tickets are still sitting out here. It's a pain. Then you gotta rip open the package. You may have to use another envelope, do it all over again. It's a whole thing. I don't have time for it. No one has time for it. Just take that extra few seconds, make sure everything is as it should be. Have the tickets go into the envelope, then seal it, and we'll be fine. So like I said, tickets into envelope. Take your tickets. I have four tickets here for Zach Brown Band that have been sold, and they've been sold across two different exchanges. So two tickets are going to FedEx, and another two are going to UPS. Now, when you get your tickets and your envelope, you have the option of just, you know, dumping them in there, be it just like that. But personally, I like to put them inside of another envelope, just some kind of protective sleeve if you will. It is possible that if these things get shipped and they're out in the rain, they could get damaged. It's nice to have at least some bit of layer of protection around them. It makes me feel anyway a bit more secure that the tickets are going to be fine. It's not a requirement. Okay? You don't need to do this. It's just a nice thing to do. I like to do it. It makes me feel better. I don't know if it makes the buyer feel any better, but from my perspective, I think it just makes things feel a bit nicer, a bit cleaner, it's a bit more organized. So in it goes, same thing for my UPS friend over here. I have my tickets. I have my envelope. Throw all those guys in there, and then throw this inside my UPS. And there we go. Now, one thing I want to highlight here. When you are filling your envelopes with the tickets, it's very important that you don't provide any of your personal information in there. Sometimes it's possible that some of the tickets will have a receipt page on it and it'll have your name and address and all that. You don't want that going into the envelopes. As well, you don't want to be providing any marketing materials or business cards to the person who's actually bought these tickets as well. It is against the terms of service of many of these different resale exchanges. If you do provide it into one of these envelopes, it's possible that the buyer who receives these tickets, they can contact, you know, the exchange. They can report you. You may face penalties, may get suspended, may lose all account privileges. It's not a pretty sight, so make sure you don't provide any personal information inside the envelopes whatsoever. When you're happy with everything that's inside, you know, you got your tickets inside there. You can go ahead, seal up your envelopes and as well, make sure you apply the shipping label onto the outside of your packages. Now, you may be noticing that my packages here, they don't have any shipping labels on them. And you may be wondering, that doesn't make sense. You skipped step number one, print the shipping label. Well, let me tell you, I currently don't have a printer in my new place, so it's not possible for me to actually print it out. But I will take you guys on a little adventure near the end. We'll go ahead, get those printed off, dropped off, sent off, everything will be hunky dory. Hunky sidetrack. Come on, guys, guys, let's get, let's get back in the zone here, all right? Step number three, go ahead. Once everything is done, print it out, put into envelopes, sealed up, all that good stuff, then step three, head on over to UPS, FedEx, wherever the tickets need to go, drop them off. Step number four, also very easy, ask for a receipt if you can. Just a confirmation that the tickets have been received by UPS or FedEx, wherever shipping you're doing through. That way, you have proof that you have actually gone and dropped off these tickets. The reason I say ask for a receipt or confirmation that the envelopes have been dropped off is mainly to protect yourself. There have been times on occasion where UPS or FedEx will lose a package or they won't have scanned it in properly, or they've done something with this envelope where it's just sitting in some back corner for who knows what reason. And the exchange will come up to you and say, hey, did you actually drop off these tickets? They're not currently being updated through tracking on the UPS or FedEx system. What have you done? And you say, hey, I have my confirmation here. Here's a copy of my receipt. You can go ahead and see that I have done what I was supposed to do. From that, you're covered. You've done everything that you said you were supposed to do. You've gone. You've dropped off the tickets in time for the event, for the due date, to get them to the buyer in time. There are situations where if you do not actually get your tickets dropped off in time and then for whatever reason UPS, FedEx, don't get the package, the buyer in time, that falls on you. You, you, you, you are the one who is responsible for that, that point, not UPS or FedEx because you didn't meet the deadline for delivering tickets on time. Find out what your drop-off dates are and make sure you follow them and abide by them so you don't get hit with any penalties or fees. So always, always, always make sure you follow the due dates that you have as well. Always ask for confirmation or receipts so that you have proof that they have taken receipt of your tickets. And then lastly, step number five is really just to track the tracking. That's kind of a weird thing to say. Track tracking, just see where the tickets are going once you've dropped them off, give it a day or two. Tickets should usually arrive in a couple of days. And then once they get delivered, then it's just a matter of waiting, waiting for that payment to come through, get cash money where everybody is a winner. Now, because I don't have a printer, I have to go run over to staples real quick, get those printed off, get the shipping labels attached to my envelopes, drop them off at UPS and FedEx, and then we'll come back and wrap things up because I got a little update for you. I'm going to talk about how much money we actually made selling these Zac Brown band tickets. Be right back. So now we are at the staples. So if you can see them, it's the staples, UPS, FedEx, everybody's in this area. Quick tip, actually, if you go to staples, almost all of them will have, well, at least in Canada, all the staples, they have a FedEx delivery point, access point, whatever you want to call it, that you can drop by your stuff there. So it's very convenient. And this place, even more convenient, the UPS is literally right beside the staples. So, all good things. All right, guys, now that we're back from UPS, FedEx, all that good stuff, let's talk Zac Brown band. So I had sold four tickets that were all hard stock that needed to be shipped out. As a result, I made a little bit of money, so let's discuss the numbers right here and now. So first off, we sold those four tickets for a total of $1,580.33. How much did I pay for them? I paid $981.02 to actually buy these tickets. And then the last thing is commissions and fees, how much did I pay to actually get this transaction completed? And that's another $157.70. All in all, that comes up to $441.60 of profit on these tickets or $110.40 per ticket. So not too shabby, pretty happy with that, can't complain. It's always nice when you make some profit on tickets, but it's not always the case because unfortunately you can't win all of them. You can win most, but definitely not all. 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