I’ve always thought that Half.com was the easiest venue on which to sell online. I don’t need to worry about auction pictures, listing templates, handling non-paying bidders, templates, listing fees, or relisting items that don’t sell. I just type in the the ISBN or UPC code, enter a short description, select the item’s condition and set my price. That’s it until it sells. Packing and shipping require the most effort. Now it takes less effort now that Half.com has integrated PayPal shipping.
I like using PayPal shipping because it’s fast and efficient especially when I’m mailing something I sold on eBay. That’s because PayPal shipping would automatically fill-in the recipients name and address. I just need to enter the parcel weight, the package type and shipping method, and hit print to get my shipping label in a jiffy.
It always frustrated me that I had to type in or cut and paste the buyer’s information when the transaction occured on Half.com. After all, Half.com and PayPal are both owned by eBay! Thankfully, eBay finally got around to integrating this service. Although it seems like a small improvement, it actually saves a significant amount of time and effort. Thanks eBay!
With Half.com’s Online Shipping, you can now print U.S. Postal Service and UPS shipping labels directly through PayPal! Printing shipping labels is FREE – you just pay the actual cost of shipping conveniently through your PayPal account.
When you use PayPal shipping labels, you also get:
- Online Tracking. You – and your buyer – can track the shipment’s status directly in My Account and PayPal.
- Pre-Filled Label Addresses. Buyer and seller addresses are automatically filled in by eBay.
How to print a shipping label
After your item has sold, you can print a shipping label by clicking on the “Print Shipping Label” button in My Account or from the “You’ve made a sale” email. After you log in to your PayPal account, click the “Ship” button in your Account Overview page. You will be taken through the quick and easy steps to print your shipping label.
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While using the PayPal checkout process for several EBay items, PayPal randomly pulled in a two your old, currently undeliverable, Half.com shipping address and sent it to the seller on the transaction. Furthermore, it was called a “confirmed” shipping address. I was unable to edit or delete the old, invalid shipping address from either EBay or PayPal. Only because I recognized it as something that I had ONLY used on Half.com did I figure out that I had to delete it from there. On the Half.com site, “Shipping addresses are shared between EBay and Half.com. Any changes made here will effect this address on both sites.” SUPRISE!!! If you send someone a gift from Half.com, the shipping address could very well bleed over to PayPal and be used on all of your PayPal transactions as your primary default shipping address. THIS IS MISUSE OF PRIVATE CUSTOMER TRANSACTION INFORMATION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. If I sign up with another EBay affiliate (eg, Skype, Rent.com, etc.) will my PayPal account also suddenly get corrupted with a new shipping address? I simply cannot believe it. For God’s sake Half at least make the shipping address a positive “Opt-In”, let me set a flag as to whether it should be an EBay shipping address, and whether or not it should be the default PayPal shipping address and under what conditions.
It gets worse than this. Not only did my PayPal account get corrupted with unrelated Half.com ship-to addresses, which caused problems on several transactions before I caught it, but, unbeknownst to me, my sellers suddenly had access to my Half.com ship-to addresses. One seller chose to void out the original shipping label and use one of the Half.com ship-to addresses rather than the ship-to address sent through on the PayPal transaction. Again, THIS IS MIUSE OF PRIVATE CUSTOMER TRANSACTION INFORMATION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER to even allow the seller to see the Half.com ship-to addresses. The prior Half.com transactions had nothing to do with my EBay/PayPal transactions or set-up! The Half.com ship-to’s were also labeled “confirmed” addresses even though they were NOT the bill-to address on the credit card.