You have used or new boxes you'd love to get rid of. People near you want cheap moving and shipping boxes. You can reduce waste and make money by connecting with them, but finding buyers and dealing with them is more trouble than it's worth. This is where we come in. BoxCycle was built specifically to make selling boxes to others simple and profitable.
Learn more about our selling process, unique benefits, and target sellers or check out our frequently asked questions.
You are probably not in the used box business. We are here to make selling simple and profitable for you.
You can manage the process as actively or passively as you like online, by email, by fax, or by phone. We even have options to automatically manage inventory and approve appointments. Have sporadic inventory? We can accomodate that and many other special situations; contact us for details.
Our unique approach saves you time and frustration, gets you more money, and makes it easy for you to help the environment and your community by selling your used boxes.
Have questions or suggestions?
BoxCycle was built to be simple and flexible. Anyone, from retailers and individuals who never thought about boxes before to large box manufacturers and resellers, can use BoxCycle as a green and profitable sales channel for used and new boxes.
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You can list any boxes that meet our minimum quality standards. You do not have to enter specifics of your boxes or think about pricing. To make listing simple, we maintain a list of box types and set all list prices to fair and competitive levels.
It is easy to enter additional box properties if you choose to do so. BoxCycle will automatically figure out the price based on provided details and you can always adjust it.
Yes. New, like-new, and excellent condition used boxes automatically earn premium pricing. You will be able to edit the box condition and fine-tune pricing after creating your listing.
Listing boxes should not take you more than a few minutes, including the one-time sign-up process. If it takes you much longer you are probably doing more than is expected of you.
You do not need to sort through your inventory before listing. Simply make a conservative guess about sizes and quantities of boxes that you have. Once you have a buyer you will have a chance to make sure that you still have enough boxes to fill their order.
We handle all communication with buyers. Buyers do not have your address until they make a purchase, commit to a pickup time, and you confirm their pickup appointment. We do not typically share your contact information with buyers even after the appointment is confirmed.
No-shows are a significant time sink for everyone involved and discourage people from getting their boxes reused. We make clear to buyers that appointments are binding and have penalties for not showing up. Sellers get half of all penalty fees.
It's up to you! We have a minimum order requirement of $2, but sellers are welcome to set a higher minimum order for their inventory.
There are no upfront costs. We get paid only when your boxes sell. Our commission is 50% of the list price with a maximum of $1.00 per box and $100 per order plus 5% of any amount for which commission was not already charged.
Since commission is only 5% on amounts beyond list price, it's easy to meet profit requirements with premiums and custom prices.
Here are some examples:
We collect payment from the buyer when they place the order and credit your share to your account after the order is completed successfully.
The money will be sent to you automatically once you are owed $25 or more. You can choose to receive payouts by either check or PayPal (we pay their payment fees). Balances under $25 never expire and you can request a manual payout at any time at a cost of $2 ($1 for PayPal.)
Your listing should accurately reflect boxes you can provide to the buyer. You can store boxes until sale, adjust your listing to keep up with inventory changes, or let us make regular adjustments for you - simply contact us with your schedule. You can also specify a Lead Time to allow yourself time to gather boxes. Lead Time is the minimum number of days in advance that the buyer can schedule their pickup appointment.
Lead Time is intended for sellers who receive boxes on regular basis and/or are reliably able to gather boxes within a specific period of time. Your listed inventory must be a very conservative estimate of boxes you will have available in time for buyer's appointment. Keep in mind that buyers are more likely to buy from sellers with shortest lead times.
You do not need to remove tape or labels or do any other cleaning. Buyers understand that boxes have been used. Simply take care to meet our common sense minimum quality standards.
We assume that boxes will be broken down, but allow listing unflattened boxes. You must edit each unflattened box entry to set the 'Broken Down' property to 'No'. The list price for unflattened boxes is 20% less.
BoxCycle does not require exclusive access to your boxes and can be used together with other methods. We help you get rid of some of your boxes in a more profitable and environmentally friendly fashion. You can always dispose of boxes that don't sell in time as you see fit. We can even help keep your listing current by taking care of regular inventory adjustments for you.
It shouldn't. We know how busy retail sellers are. BoxCycle was created specifically to make box reuse make business, as well as environmental and social sense. To accomplish this we:
Our top priority is to make reuse make sense for sellers. We will continue to remove whatever unnecessary work still remains as we improve BoxCycle.
BoxCycle makes it easy for you to help the environment and your community, but it also offers sellers a significant positive ROI (return on investment). Use our ROI calculator below to see for yourself.
Please enter the cost of your employee's time, average order size you expect, and average amount of time you believe processing an order will take.
Note that your actual returns will almost certainly be higher because (a) the calculator assumes a flat 50% commission (b) you can schedule work and box pickups during slow times when your employees are less busy effectively reducing your cost to nearly zero (c) BoxCycle removes some work that otherwise needs to be done (e.g. carrying out boxes) (d) you may generate additional business from the extra foot traffic and/or your more green image.
If you require a still higher ROI you can require a higher minimum order, create higher quality listings, or set custom prices. There is no downside to listing your boxes.
Our list prices are suggestions that make listing boxes an easy process. If you require higher profit you can achieve it through list price premiums and custom prices. These properties can be adjusted after you create your listing.
If you have higher quality, more valuable, box inventory our system can relay this information to buyers and automatically sell your boxes at a premium to normal list price. Since the premium amount is only charged a 5% commission your profit will increase significantly.
For example, a medium moving box has a list price of $1.00 and your profit is $0.50. If you list a plain overrun new box and specify an exact size the price will increase to $1.50 ($1.00 + $0.25 + $0.15 + $0.06 + $0.04) and your profit to $0.98.
If you prefer, you can set desired sale price or required profit yourself. Our commission for any amount beyond list price is only 5% so virtually all of the increase will go to you.
At this time, buyers must pickup boxes from you. However, we are working on allowing sellers to deliver boxes to buyers. Delivery is important for many buyers and allows sellers to greatly extend their reach. If you want to be notified when this service becomes available please let us know.
Buyers will pickup boxes from you after ordering. While we do not offer direct box pickup, we can notify you when this service becomes available.
Not yet, but we plan on expanding to other countries. Tell us about your interest and we'll notify you when we are available in your country.
The best thing to do is to just start selling! There is no cost, no risk, and it really just takes a few minutes. Doing it will answer most of your questions. But if you need help, please do contact us!
We are constantly striving to make BoxCycle simpler and more efficient to allow more boxes to get reused. Your ideas help us add and prioritize improvements - please post them in our GetSatisfaction User Community.
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