Shipping Charges

[gayaestore]

Dear community members,

Is there way to add shipping a charge to the buyer after buy two quantities from the same item at once?

Example

Usually, buyer purchase quantity 01 from an item and that goes with free Economy shipping. - No issue. If the buyer adds two quantities from the same item that should be go with a shipping charge. Is there a possibility to do this on eBay?

[inhawaii]

What you want to do makes no sense.

You want to encourage buyers to buy more from you, not discourage them.

If you get free shipping for buying one, you want to charge for shipping for buying more than one?
So if I wanted to buy  12 of them, what would keep me from buying one, twelve times?

In any case, you can't do what you are asking, add on shipping if they buy more than one.

[dbfolks166mt]

     Why would you charge the buyer shipping if they ordered 2? You offer free shipping on one and would actually save shipping costs that you are paying if the buyer  purchased 2. Would you also expect the buyer to pay shipping if they placed two individual orders? 

[ryry-jj]

Why is one item ok to go with free shipping but not two?  Are you not covering the shipping cost in the unit price?

But to your question....My first thought would be to state a low fixed shipping cost then put a higher shipping cost for additional items.    If I understand free shipping on an item, it is always seller pays regardless of how many buyer purchases

[mr_lincoln · Accepted solution]

Hi @gayaestore 

Free shipping is Free shipping regardless of how many items are purchased on a Free shipping item.  If you have built the shipping cost into one item then you are covered for each additional one purchased.  I assume you understand the math here.  If you are not hitting your profit margin on selling ONE item with Free shipping then either charge for shipping or raise your unit price to cover the lost margin.

[youn2240]

I'd set up your account to charge the buyer an inconvenience fee for bothering you to ship multiple items. it's somewhere in the sellers pages just click around. 

[phil6425]

What does, "that should be go with a shipping charge" mean; (it is not very clear)?

Who says that it should, and was that information conveyed in writing somewhere?

[zobal99]

Hello gayaestore, Yes that makes a lot of sense despite what the other sellers are telling you.

There is a way to get around this and I'll tell you how. 

Take off the free shipping.  Add in a minimal amount for shipping the first one. Say a penny or a dollar.

Then you will be asked how much you want to charge for shipping additional pieces. And voila!

Or you can just absorb the shipping rate. Sure your profit goes down but what can you do?

[jg.mason]

🤣I actually do the opposite. If a buyer buys more that one free shipping item I refund the extra shipping that I had figured into the price of the extra items.