Combined overseas shipping for multiple offers by buyer

Question

If a seller offers discounts on multiple items, the items can be combined for shipping. If the buyer offers and is accepted, the seller is bound by global shipping rules to mail each individual item separately and pay an enormous amount in shipping? The items are about the size of a small fingernail (vintage shield travel charms) and I don't understand why the buyer's hands are tied. Please advise.

comics-scifi-collectibles · Answer

@cnixondesign1 Your hands are not tied as a seller but it is a bit more work to combine the items into one listings. The reason that it's like this is due to customs regulations.

eBay is rolling out the option so that buyers can combine shipping by making ONE payment for all items in their cart. This way the buyer receives a shipping discount automatically and you can ship in one package. This is only going to work for similar items.

This is what I do>>>

EIS orders can't be manually combined without doing a work around.

Ask the buyer NOT to pay until all auctions are ended. Make sure you don't have auto unpaid cancelation set up for too short of a time OR add the buyer to your exemption list.

Auto Unpaid> https://www.ebay.com/Cancel/Preference/UnpaidPurchase

Exemption list>   https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/ExemptBuyers

Then let your buyer know how you will combine the orders....

Cancel all of the sales as problem with buyers address.

Relist combining ALL of the items into ONE Buy It Now listing. This can only be done if the items are similar and from the same category due to customs regulations.

To save time so you don't have to take new pictures save a copy of the main photo from each of the other listings to upload onto the new listing. Right click on the photo and select save as... name it something easy to find. The photo will be saved to your download folder, not the pictures folder.

Then you can just add the saved photos to the new listing.