Account wide minimum order setting.

[dedicatednetwork]

Hello all. A suggestion to eBay would be to enable some type of order minimum in terms of value. We have QTY minimums with the lot option but it's not the same as a revenue minimum. With automation of inventory, lots make it quite a bit more complicated to sync to ERPs. We do also utilize free shipping for easy calculations against competition however ordering a $5.00 item with free shipping and it's an instant loss where if we could state we need a minimum of $50.00, per order overall, and it would allow us to force a QTY 10 sale without making these lots. We manage over 4,100 active listings with a total of over 10,000 listings. We ended up just removing almost all sub $25.00 listings but I know we are missing out on large QTY sales versus the 1 or 2 qty sales. Our industry also isn't keen on specific "lot qty" listings. They may need 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 so how we would we even begin to manage making multiple lots of the same item.   Make it easy and make it an account wide setting.

[sabsh9516]

You would find that buyers would stop shopping with the sellers who did that.

[coffeebean832]

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@dedicatednetwork wrote:

We do also utilize free shipping for easy calculations against competition however ordering a $5.00 item with free shipping and it's an instant loss where if we could state we need a minimum of $50.00, per order overall, and it would allow us to force a QTY 10 sale without making these lots.

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Have you considered listing the low cost items with a separate shipping charge- then running a promotion for free shipping when the buyer spends $50 or more?

To be honest- it sounds like you have more inventory/listings than you can manage. I looked at your listings and most don't have photos- including $30,000 items. I think that's a bigger issue to worry about than setting order minimums.

[dedicatednetwork]

Yes, we've considering doing promotional on free shipping. However, if we incorporated a cost on the item, eBay adds the shipping cost + cost of the item and when the items range by a couple pennies per seller, we would end up on page 16.  I absolutely agree with the picture scenario. We are working on that as we speak but it's a struggle on multiple facets. Stock images aren't readily available for the equipment and the variations they can have so it becomes a manual process. A lot of our equipment, cosmetically speaking, is in great shape and most people shopping for this type of equipment knows exactly what they are looking for and what it is. But yes, totally agree and working on getting it back.