Regards,
You are so right, the old days when you had to have the item in hand in order to list. Buyers and sellers could communicate freely before and after. If any problems occurred you worked it out and if there was a problem with feedback you could have squaretrade to mediate and have it removed by just proving you took care of the problem.
Buyers and sellers actually communicated about anything. It was fun, you didn't need MBG, defects, time frames we all loved what we were doing and eBay actually permanently removed non paying buyer without haveing to report them.
Buyers would log in and send good morning emails, I had a buyer that ever Friday paypal me $10 and called it Ice cream day and every Friday I went and bought ice cream. Buyers were your friends..Oh can I get another pair of those purple glasses when you list them again, my blind aunt Sara the one with the deaf poodle sat on another pair..How are you doing? You had loyal buyers that if they liked you wouldn't think to buy from someone else, we used to see feedback from everyone and both parties could leave whatever they felt was their opinion. International sales were through the roof because first class with no tracking always reached your buyer. Anything you listed sold, power sellers had a portal you could buy eBay gear, insurance, discounts on stuff. eBay used to send out award cerificates for sale goals, feedback goals, certifcated for power seller and top rated every year. I used to have a wall of framed eBay certificates....lol They used to send out aniversary cards and birthday cards to the sellers.
All that is gone and it's not so friendly anymore, it's a different world a very different word..The people are genuinely good means nothing anymore.
When you have immediate payment required on your listings, your buyer can use the eBays shopping cart and purchase them all at once to get combined shipping. If the buyer has an item with a shipping cost and one with free shipping, they are only charged the shipping fee for the one item.
Print a scan sheet when printing your daily labels for all your packages you are shipping out that day and have the carrier scan it.
Listen, eBay now is a big business that cares about one thing and that's sellers making buyers happy so they now are going to link all those red tops in a product listing and whatever seller has it listed at the right price gets the sale. Your red top listing will have a link to see more red top from other sellers.
"instead of ebay suggestions other items within your store, they suggest your customer shop elsewhere"
NO No, eBay is suggesting you don't have to go elsewhere, you came to eBay to buy the top ...we have ten other sellers that carry the top, goal is to sell a red top on eBay, they don't care if it's your sale or my sale. Buyer got what they wanted and they got it on eBay.
NEWBIES need to be more considerate and realize how it affects the seller and work with them. No..this is the yelper generation, they leave feedback for everything they eat, drink, watch...places the go..for uber drivers..those days of thinking a feedback means anything are pretty much gone, my friend.
Your right....it's a slow death unless you get with all the new programs. Teach an old dog a new trick and maybe we might live it out. Ahh I miss those good old days, having fun, making money, good people...
Best of Luck Friend
@ijazzu wrote:You are so right, the old days when you had to have the item in hand in order to list. Buyers and sellers could communicate freely before and after. If any problems occurred you worked it out and if there was a problem with feedback you could have squaretrade to mediate and have it removed by just proving you took care of the problem.
Buyers and sellers actually communicated about anything. It was fun, you didn't need MBG, defects, time frames we all loved what we were doing and eBay actually permanently removed non paying buyer without haveing to report them.
Buyers would log in and send good morning emails, I had a buyer that ever Friday paypal me $10 and called it Ice cream day and every Friday I went and bought ice cream. Buyers were your friends..Oh can I get another pair of those purple glasses when you list them again, my blind aunt Sara the one with the deaf poodle sat on another pair..How are you doing? You had loyal buyers that if they liked you wouldn't think to buy from someone else, we used to see feedback from everyone and both parties could leave whatever they felt was their opinion. International sales were through the roof because first class with no tracking always reached your buyer. Anything you listed sold, power sellers had a portal you could buy eBay gear, insurance, discounts on stuff. eBay used to send out award cerificates for sale goals, feedback goals, certifcated for power seller and top rated every year. I used to have a wall of framed eBay certificates....lol They used to send out aniversary cards and birthday cards to the sellers.
All that is gone and it's not so friendly anymore, it's a different world a very different word..The people are genuinely good means nothing anymore.
When you have immediate payment required on your listings, your buyer can use the eBays shopping cart and purchase them all at once to get combined shipping. If the buyer has an item with a shipping cost and one with free shipping, they are only charged the shipping fee for the one item.
Print a scan sheet when printing your daily labels for all your packages you are shipping out that day and have the carrier scan it.
Listen, eBay now is a big business that cares about one thing and that's sellers making buyers happy so they now are going to link all those red tops in a product listing and whatever seller has it listed at the right price gets the sale. Your red top listing will have a link to see more red top from other sellers.
"instead of ebay suggestions other items within your store, they suggest your customer shop elsewhere"
NO No, eBay is suggesting you don't have to go elsewhere, you came to eBay to buy the top ...we have ten other sellers that carry the top, goal is to sell a red top on eBay, they don't care if it's your sale or my sale. Buyer got what they wanted and they got it on eBay.
NEWBIES need to be more considerate and realize how it affects the seller and work with them. No..this is the yelper generation, they leave feedback for everything they eat, drink, watch...places the go..for uber drivers..those days of thinking a feedback means anything are pretty much gone, my friend.
Your right....it's a slow death unless you get with all the new programs. Teach an old dog a new trick and maybe we might live it out. Ahh I miss those good old days, having fun, making money, good people...
Best of Luck Friend
Love this post and highlighted my favorite section ... sort of like the stories given to try and get a discount or something cheaper, " My neighbor's brother's cousins's uncle's pet aligator was chasing their other neighbor's live-in mother-in-law's ex-husband's son's to his 4th wife) gerbil and its tail knocked the vintage retro depressionware candy dish off the table and shattered in to 342 pieces ... so can I buy yours for 1/2 price and YOU pay the shipping?"
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote: The purchases all are separate...as the listings are all separate. Payment may be made at one time but each is still a separate transaction always has been....so no one is inflating anything.
Combining shipping can be done and is done by many successfully every single day
You can also send an adjusted invoice reflecting combined shipping however you have that set up.
Most of us have a disclaimer in our listings too letting buyers know we will combine shipping....not saying ebay will combine our shipping for us. Ebay will also allow the set up automatic combined shipping in some cases.
It is all explained in the help pages
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The combined shipping has always been a little inconsistent with my account yet it works at tiems exactly how I have it set up ... so I am wondering if the issue may be (at times) with the cart and that it does not combine purchases. I had one (it happened a while ago) where the Buyer purchased 4 items and they all came through as separate sales. Normally, when I click on one item from a multiple order it will show them all on one invoice that I then can adjust the shipping cost (once they are all packed in one box) ... but this set of transactions did not do that. I had copied some instructions on how to combine them in to one package and label after the fact but I was not comfortable with the proceedure so I just refunded a % off each one for a shipping cost reduction. Buyer was fine with that and it was less hastle for me. I probably lost a little $$ on shipping but I sold four things to one Buyer so I was fine with that.
