The Reselling Shipping Station: The Gear We Actually Use

You do not need much to start reselling, and you should not spend much before you have sold anything. But once orders are coming in, a real shipping station saves time on every single package and stops the small mistakes that quietly eat your margin. This is the exact gear we use, in the order worth buying it.

Buy in this order

1. Mailers and tape first. Most beginner inventory is apparel and small goods, so poly mailers and a case of tape cover the majority of what you ship on day one.
2. Boxes next. Two sizes handle almost everything that should not fold. Buying boxes in a case is far cheaper per unit than grabbing them one at a time.
3. A thermal printer once you have volume. When you are printing more than a few labels a week, a thermal printer stops being a luxury. No ink, no taped-on paper, just peel and stick. The fanfold labels feed it without curling.

Do not over-buy

Skip the fancy shelving, the photo light kits, and the storage systems until volume forces the need. A window with good daylight and a clean wall photographs inventory just fine at the start. Spend on the things that touch every order, which is packing and shipping.

The full sourcing-to-shipping system, including how we pack to keep costs low and price shipping so it never eats a sale, is laid out step by step inside The Income Lab.