How do I offer different discount tiers across multiple listings?

[misterskullhead]

I sell a lot of magazines and would like to offer multiple discounts, like buy 2 / get 20% off, buy 3 / get 30% off and such.  Sort of like how the volume pricing works - except across multiple listings.

Is there any way to accomplish this?  I could just set up multiple order discount offers, but if they overlap like that, would only one campaign apply?  I mean, if someone bought 3 magazines and got 30% off, would they also get an additional 20% off for the other campaign??

[caldreamer]

EBAY not setup to offer "multiples discount" when you purchase "different magazines" across multiple listings.   You could advise customer discount will be "refunded to them" after you determine how many magazines they purchased.

[divwido]

Open an eBay Store, even the cheap one at 4.95 a month and go to Marketing, Promotions and you  can do that.  you cannot control what items they buy, but you can set up discounts based on the number of items bought.

[misterskullhead]

I've had a store for years.   I've used lots of promotions.  Where exactly are you seeing an option to offer several types of discount levels across multiple listings?

[katzrul15]

@misterskullhead 

Perhaps use volume pricing?

Volume Pricing | eBay

How many listings can I apply Volume pricing to?

Volume pricing can be applied to 500 SKUs, or item IDs, per promotion. If you use category rules or the All Inventory option, Volume pricing is applied to all qualifying inventory.

[misterskullhead]

Like I pointed out in my original post, volume pricing doesn't work ACROSS multiple listings.  The discounts are only PER LISTING.  You can set volume pricing for a whole category or multiple listings, but that pricing will only actually work within each listing - and only if you have a quantity of greater than 1 for that particular listing.

Make sense?  So, if I had ALL of my magazines at a 25% volume discount, you couldn't add a Playboy and a National Geographic to your cart and get a discount.  But say I had a several exact copies of a particular issue, like 5 copies of Popular Mechanics January 2000, yeah, you could see the discount.  But nobody wants more than one copy of a particular magazine and that still doesn't solve my original problem.  No clue what eBay was thinking or why that hasn't been added in all of these years.

[katzrul15]

Volume pricing says it can be applied to 500 skus.....why could you not give each magazine a sku?

When I do a promotion - I can choose individual items for an amount to apply to, but I can also do it by sku if assigned and I can do it by "volume" - buy $100, save X;

So if I go to Promotions

Choose Volume Pricing

I set the Tiers

It then Says "Select Items" and takes me to everything listed in my Store

I can then choose exactly "which" items get a discount based on Volume pricing.  What am I missing as you CHOOSE which of your inventory the tiered pricing applies to?

[katzrul15]

Here is where before you select the individual items that apply, you set the Tiers

[misterskullhead]

Ok.  I'm not sure if I explained it clearly enough.  You can apply the promotion to however many listings you want - but they do not work with each other.  You can apply the promotion to listing A, B, and C, but a customer trying to buy listing A and B or A and C will not get the discount.  They will only see a discount if they are trying to buy more than one of listing A, or more than one of listing B.

You can try it yourself, if you like.  You won't see any discounts on any of your single quantity listings.

[katzrul15]

Wonder why it lets you select items that are all single listings?  Makes no sense at all.........Can you do it where they save a set amount if they spend X dollars vs a percentage?

When I do "order discount", it lets me choose categories or storewide, up to 500 items and under Quantity, I can choose to let a Buyer have a % off based on the number of items they buy?

[katzrul15]

This is under Promotions - then Order Discount - then I choose a Category or Whole Store and below that is the above choices - where under Quantity, I can choose the % off based on the number of items.

[misterskullhead]

... yes, this is another thing I pointed out in my original post.  I want to offer MULTIPLE tiers.  Not just one discount level.  That's the entire problem and the whole reason I created the post.

[katzrul15]

No idea.  Would guess if you have multiple promotions, you run the risk of the buyer getting more than 1 discount.  

[katzrul15]

@misterskullhead 

Just tested it and it allows the 2 promotions you have selected to overlap one another - not certain if that is how it was intended, but once I selected the 2nd one, they are separate and both rules would apply.  I just ended both of those I did in test, but you can only do 1 at a time evidently.

Maybe bring this up on the weekly chat?  What you are desiring would be great to have for a Seller's store - there are store changes coming, perhaps in weekly chat they can advise if enhancing promotions will be a part of that.

[thefabricedge]

This thread was so frustrating to read lol. I totally got what you were saying because I went searching for this answer myself. So I am guessing by how this thread went that there is no way to accomplish this? I want my customers to be able to choose a, b, and c and get the same discount as if they chose 3 of just a. How are you handling it currently for the customers that checkout with multiple products that are different from each other?