How do I send an offer for multiple items?

[richard1rst]

I have a buyer who wants to buy 5 similar but different items. They each have an individual listing, but they are all at the same price.

His email was a “send question” for one of the items.

I am willing to send him an offer for all 5 items at a discounted price. HOWEVER when I click “send offer” it apparently only lets me send an offer with only the one item referenced in his email, not all 5.

Is there any way to add the other 4 items so the offer includes all 5 items on the “send offer” page? I really do not want to send 5 separate offers.

Thanks in advance.

[994john]

Just make the agreement for the items through the email, then put a listing up for the lot of 5 items.

You may want to include "Special listing for.........." in the title so that buyer will get the items.

Don't forget to cover yourself by having the full description of each item.

You have an opportunity to save on fees if you adjust the listing price to have free shipping.

[dhbookds]

Op........I would combine into one listing, put a huge price on the new listing and then put B/o on it.  Assure the buyer when he offers the agreed price, you will accept. Saves worrying that someone else may come along and try to buy.

@994john

What do you mean by: ?

You have an opportunity to save on fees if you adjust the listing price to have free shipping.

If you add the shipping cost to the original price......you will pay the same fee as originally.

$10 + $5 shipping           x 10%  ($1 + .50= 1.50)

$15                                       x 10%=$1.50

[994john]

If you think it's the same either way, why even mention it?

[d-k_treasures]

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@dhbookds wrote:

Op........I would combine into one listing, put a huge price on the new listing and then put B/o on it.  Assure the buyer when he offers the agreed price, you will accept. Saves worrying that someone else may come along and try to buy.

@994john

What do you mean by: ?

You have an opportunity to save on fees if you adjust the listing price to have free shipping.

If you add the shipping cost to the original price......you will pay the same fee as originally.

$10 + $5 shipping           x 10%  ($1 + .50= 1.50)

$15                                       x 10%=$1.50

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Maybe they mean that they can save 1.20 in PP fees (30 cents x 4) if they were all combined into one payment.

[pingpong517]

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@richard1rst wrote:

I have a buyer who wants to buy 5 similar but different items. They each have an individual listing, but they are all at the same price.

His email was a “send question” for one of the items.

I am willing to send him an offer for all 5 items at a discounted price. HOWEVER when I click “send offer” it apparently only lets me send an offer with only the one item referenced in his email, not all 5.

Is there any way to add the other 4 items so the offer includes all 5 items on the “send offer” page? I really do not want to send 5 separate offers.

Thanks in advance.

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Why can't the buyer send the offers?... ok so it is a little effort , but they send , you accept..ten you combine invoice with whatever you decided for shipping... and it all stays by the book and ebay is happy ...ta da.

[lookng2015]

That DOES work, and I've used it myself for 3 or 4 items.

Hardly an option for more than 5 or so though.

[teelabrown]

I've read through all the replies, and it appears that eBay needs to add functionality to their selling capability to group existing items into one offer for the customer.

Dancing around invoices (which are after-the-fact) and agreements made in email not only makes it hard to manage, but something could go wrong (one of the lot sells while the offer is out there, etc.) and then you have an upset customer with a poor experience.

To eBay folks reading this post -- this is a legitimate requirement.  We need to be able to group several fixed-price listings and send an offer for the lot to a customer. 

How do we make this enhancement request?

[buckeyethinker]

Years later, and I'm dealing with this very issue. Your recommendation seems like a very simple, but useful functionality that would improve a lot of transactions.

[coffeebean832]

This is a very old discussion so the mods will probably lock it.

@buckeyethinker- You can agree on a price with the buyer through messages then tell them to add the items to their shopping cart and use the "request total from seller" button before they pay. That will trigger an alert so you can send the buyer an invoice and you can reflect the discount on the invoice.

Note that the request total button is available only on the website- not on the app- so let your buyer know that.

[richard1rst]

"You can agree on a price with the buyer through messages then tell them to add the items to their shopping cart and use the "request total from seller" button before they pay. That will trigger an alert so you can send the buyer an invoice and you can reflect the discount on the invoice."

I tried that and the discount I could offer was limited to the amount of the shipping shown. I was unable to discount the actual price of each item. If they are free shipping items then I was not able to enter any discount because there was no shipping to discount.

teetabrown has a good idea..

[coffeebean832]

The last time I offered a buyer a discount for a large quantity of items across a large quantity of listings I used promotions manager to create an order discount- $x off if you spend $x or more and I added listings to the promotion that the buyer was interested in. It was quick and smooth- but it will only work for sellers who have store subscriptions with access to promotions manager.

[richard1rst]

I have done the same and similar "invented" listings. However, it is still extra time and effort and if, as sometimes happens, the buyer does not follow through it is a wasted effort and then you have to spend additional time to remove it.

As it is now eBay absolutely refuses to let us discount the item price AFTER something has been sold. Within some certain parameters that needs to change for multiple orders.

[rodefenn]

Same issue. Lost a sale over it...

[jcdynamics]

Same/bump/ebay please for the love of sanity make it easier to bulk-offer for both the buyer and seller.

I'm buying brand new parts from Mouser right now for slightly more $ than ebay, because it's such a pain for a seller to deal with many offers at a time. After-sale invoice changes (refund for combined shipping) would fix it. It's totally ridiculous you can't sell several  make-offer items at a time and not combine the shipping. And having fixed "add $1 per additional item" and other options I've seen don't work when the first item fits in an envelope, and the next item is an engine.