USING COUPONS
Hello everyone, hope all is well. I actually have 2 questions I was really hoping to get some help with. The first one is, if I set up coupon for buy one get free, will system automatically make customer pay for item that is lets say $20 for them to get one that is priced in same range?? I am curious and guess worried if I set up coupon for BOGO in a category (trading cards) since cards range in prices I want to be sure that customer cant purchase lets say a card for $1 and get card worth $20 for free that is in the same category. 2nd question is, another trading card category, If i make listing that has 50 cards and have it set for customers to scroll through and pick card they want, what is best way for me to set up the pricing if I want to have it for customer to purchase say 3 cards for $1.00 since the value of some of the cards are only .25ea and when you sell buy in now you can;t post cards for sale under $1.00. I dont want to list cards at a dollar that are not worth that much, any advice on this?? is there a way to sell cards at .20, .30, etc. thanks in advance
onefootflipper
·1 year agoIt doesn't matter, they won't use the coupon anyway.
My other account is an 11,000 item all card store.
Two times in order to prove points for youtube videos I was making I put the entire store ON SALE buy one get 1 free for weeks at a time. They didn't even have to use a coupon code, just add two items to cart.
Over 90 percent of my orders were still for 1 item, they did not take the free item. In fact I had more people buy multiple items in separate transactions paying full price and paying shipping twice than I did actually take the free item.
A very tiny minority of customers went nuts though and ordered a ton of cards, each one that did it seemed to purposely spend enough money to keep me from shipping them standard envelope.
Do NOT set up a drop down box listing, customers hate them with a passion and they are extremely difficult to manage once created.
You are also listing cards below the "worth your time" level. A 1.99 shipped card nets you less than 50 cents after fees and expenses. Can you both list and ship 30 of those per hour, that is what it takes to even make $15 an hour selling them. By the way, I already know you can't, our fastest guy at the card shop could not reliably even ship 30 per hour (we timed it), much less adding in the need to initially list and file them away.
My card store now has a minimum 2.99 plus shipping price point. I sell half as much as I used to but I net twice as much as I used to with it.
To answer your real question it will charge for the more expensive one if it is a buy 1 get 1 situation.
You can also simply group cards together in lots, sell 4x lightning bolt instead of just 1.