topic How to charge postage PER item? in Selling

How to charge postage PER item?

lightraytracer — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:14:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm a casual seller, but this week I created an item listing (for sale). The listing was of the Buy Now type, and the postage was fixed. In addition, the item is heavy. Since I had 4 of this item, I set the quantity to 4. Today a buyer comes along and buys all 4 items in a single transaction (great), but the postage paid was only for the fixed postage to post a single item. I had mistakenly assumed that a buyer would be charged x4 for the postage for buying 4 of the items. Looking back at creating a new listing, in the future how can I set a fixed postage price PER item (not a fixed postage for 1, 10, or even 100 items)? I don't see this option available. In the future should I just create different listings? This seems to be a flaw/oversight in the ebay system.

My new listing/selling screen looks as follows: https://i.imgur.com/ilhwVZp.jpg

Re: How to charge postage PER item?

digital*ghost — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:32:41 GMT

That looks like the quick listing tool, and doesn't seem to be providing the same postage options as the advanced listing form.

If you see a link to switch to the advanced listing tool, do that then scroll down to the postage section, as there will be an option to enter the basic P&H cost, and then a per additional item cost, so if you want the P&H to be $10 per item, for example, you enter $10.00, then $10.00 in the per additional item field (the per additional item field will only appear if there is more than 1 entered into the quantity field first).

Re: How to charge postage PER item?

collect247 — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:37:44 GMT

Too slow so as DG has posted.

Re: How to charge postage PER item?

lightraytracer — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:53:10 GMT

Hummm... When I sign in via the com.au version of the ebay site, I don't see any advanced listing link. However, if I sign in via the .com version of the ebay site, I see this link. After click it, ebay recommends not to use it. Thanks for sheding a little light on this for me.

Re: How to charge postage PER item?

*tippy*toes* — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:05:57 GMT

Don't take any notice of the warning. Everyone gets that warning when they try to change, even high volume sellers. When you create or edit a listing, the link should be up the very top right. It's definitely worth changing to the advanced, there are a lot more options, meaning you can have a more thorough listing.