multi-variant weight items?

[dchmelik]

I started selling herbs.  Some sellers multi-variant list different weights.  Weight visible for buyers seems not used for package weight, so I can't have more than one package weight even though too wide range of bulk weights for that to work monetarily for me and buyers?

[short_circuit.lineman61]

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@dchmelik wrote:

I started selling herbs.  Some sellers multi-variant list different weights.  Weight visible for buyers seems not used for package weight, so I can't have more than one package weight even though too wide range of bulk weights for that to work monetarily for me and buyers?

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that is one of the limitations of variations.

If you do not want to do "free" shipping one  option is roll in part of the shipping cost on the heavier items into the item price. 

[caldreamer]

EBAY is not setup to determine "weight" of additional items.   What you can do is offer "flat rate" shipping then you assign additional costs.   EXAMPLE:   Shipping $10 + $5 for every additional item.

[duffy4444]

    I also noticed this situation when I began listing my dinnerware variants in one listing. The way I solved it is to add an extra amount to the listing price of heavier items to compensate.

   For instance, all our dinnerware items are listed with 1-2 lbs as the main shipping charge, calculated by eBay for the different zone rates in the US. We add an extra amount to the listing price to compensate for the heavier items. For those items that are less than 1 lb, we get a little extra income to help pay for the all-around packaging and handling.

   Works perfectly for us.

Cheers, Duffy

[dchmelik]

I sell in USA internationally so think none the above will work; free shipping doesn't work for very small businesses (or people not considering themselves ones who maybe still are called sole proprietors): we don't have high-paid 'flat rate'/'free' deals with shipping companies and it varies by location, especially internationally.

        For now it's close enough to offer a smaller item and give discounts for two, three, or four items... but I have at least six sizes/weights so the discount system is inadequate (only decreases for up to three not six or unlimited) and in this case one still needs more weight rows for one's maximum number to sell adding weights.  This basic aspect should've been done before stuff like obscure categories duplicating things (like some items have both 'genre', 'style' which largely overlap sometimes with actual similar/same entries in both).  There's even duplicate 'weight', 'units' but just neither for actual multiple package sizes...

       Another thing might be just list with one weight as-is and adjust, but buyers dislike that.  In 1990s I and some others wouldn't even weigh things until we found out if it sold, so I had to request shipping payment afterwards in PayPal.  Now buyers simply want to see the final shipping cost and this could affect them also if sellers have fewer options to set by package size.