eBay

mamabeardsley · ‎07-02-2023

A buyer wants to buy 14 items, making offers on each item and combining shipping. Is there a way to do this?

splendidthreads · ‎07-02-2023

I'm sure there are other ways, but if I was doing this, I'd tell them to make their offers on all the items. Tell them after you accept, do not pay because you will send them a combined invoice. Figure out the combined shipping, either by a per piece cost or by the weight/dimensions of all 14 items together, then send them the invoice.

An alternative is to pull all of the items into one listing with all of their offer prices added and only one shipping amount. To cover your behind, make a listing with the info from all 14 items. I usually paste in the description box the titles that have my inventory number in them, and then any condition issues that need to be included for each item. Be sure to remember to end the listings before you activate this new combined listing.

ebooksdiva · ‎07-02-2023

First make sure to check your buyer requirements to make sure the provide method of payment is not checked off. If it is you can uncheck it or add your buyer to the exemption list. Otherwise your buyer will be required to provide a method of payment on each item with an offer and each item will be paid for immediately upon your approval of the offer. Those types of offers can’t be combined into one purchase.

mamabeardsley · ‎07-02-2023

The buyer doesn't want to pay the upfront shipping and then get it refunded. I know sometimes I have had it work where the buyer adds things to the cart and then requests a total, but this doesn't always work. It would be nice to know what makes the difference? I have suggested this to buyers and have had mixed success. Bundling the items in one listing seems like a lot of work, but maybe that's the best way. Just don't want to have to take all those pictures and make a new listing and incur new listing fees.... Seems like eBay should have a way to do this, but apparently, the software engineers can't develop this tool?

toomuchstuffagain35 · ‎07-02-2023

If I have a situation where they can't use the RQT and I have to make a new listing, I already have all my item photos on a file card so adding one photo for each item is no biggie.

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

splendidthreads · ‎07-02-2023

I understand your concern. If you tell them not to pay yet, you can send an invoice with the combined shipping amount. They won't pay anything until after they get your invoice, so there won't be any to refund.

Bundling is a lot of work, especially for 14 items. Thinking back to when I've done this, I've just added 1 pic from each item. Still a lot of work, but not as much as adding all pics.

There is a way to set up your listings to combine automatically. There are sellers here who regularly have orders that large. I haven't figured it out enough to where it's reliable, so I can't explain how to do it. 🙂

buyselljack2016 · ‎07-02-2023

@mamabeardsley

No listing fee. If fixed price listings, just bundle them into one of the existing by revising.

I use the OOS feature, so I could set the other 13 to "0" in the meantime without ending them, just in case it does not work out with the bundle.

m60driver · ‎07-02-2023

@mamabeardsley wrote:
A buyer wants to buy 14 items, making offers on each item and combining shipping. Is there a way to do this?

I usually just come to an agreement with the buyer on the total price, end all the individual listings, and then create one combined listing with the agreed upon price. Worse case is you relist the individual items.

natoman777 · ‎07-02-2023

I would make a new listing for that many items. The other option is to have them purchase all of them and then you refund them for shipping overage.

ittybitnot · ‎07-02-2023

The other option is to have them purchase all of them and then you refund them for shipping overage.

@natoman777

That won't work if the BUYER ID is in the new forced program where they have to provide a funding source BEFORE they can make an offer AND the seller has the preference (referenced in message #3 by @ebooksdiva) set to yes. The new system does not work for combined items from the same seller in this instance. They will all be separate transactions, buyer pays shipping full and it is paid for as soon as the accept button is hit. The separate transactions will require a separate tracking number for each, so there will be no savings for anybody. Seller gets hit for the .30 on each, fees on all that shipping etc. eBay makes more money of course, but neither the buyer or the seller benefit.

The OP
@mamabeardsley needs to turn that preference to NO....then the buyer can make all the offers he/she wants, and when complete they can request a total. If the buyer is using a mobile app, there is no request total button, or if there is one on a computer and it throws an error, the seller can still send a combined invoice if you let them know, as these will all be accepted offers. and not likely to cause drama.

natoman777 · ‎07-02-2023

That's why I said to make a new listing for the sale. It is the easiest way in my mind.

mamabeardsley · ‎07-02-2023

that's interesting. I never thought to change the quantity to zero.

teelabrown · ‎01-06-2024

This is all a PITA. Ebay should create a feature for buyers to gather items in their cart from a specific buyer and make an offer. The cart could be specific to the buyer's items and found on the same page where you can search the buyer's items.

Who can make a proper enhancement request to eBay for that? I'll be happy to write the specification and test plan for it.

thriftagiftchgo · ‎01-28-2024

Yes! This would be great. I am getting ready to post old books and thought it would be great if the buyer could do a bulk purchase. Do you know if we could make a buy one get one for x amount, across several listings? This would be similar.