eBay is a great place. Over the last few years I have sold things from my basement for amazing amounts. As they say, what is one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. It doesn’t always work as expected though. My wife bought a chandellier for a certain room but after installation decided she wanted to change the style. I said “no problem, I’ll sell it on eBay”. The bidding opened at $5 and seven days later it closed at $5.50. After already having spent non-trivial time getting it out of the box, taking pictures of it, and packing it for shipment I was not too enthusiastic about now having to address it and get it to the post office. I used stamps.com, printed out the postage, and my wife put it outside by our mailbox for the postal carrier to pick up. The carrier picked it up on Tuesday and then another carrier brought it back the next da with a note on it saying that the box exceeded their size guidelines and it would require a $28.89 surcharge in addition to the normal parcel post charge. Increasing the unedning investment in this chandellier, I took the measurements and used myups.com to create a shipping label. It included a surcharge for the “oversize” but was still half of what USPS was going to charge. I took the box to Mail Boxes ETC and it is now on the way to a very nice lady who lives about thirty miles away. My wife says we should have donated the chandellier to charity and gotten the tax deduction. My earnings as it turned out were about a dollar an hour!