topic Re: Shopping carts please in Selling

Shopping carts please

amnajane — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:17:52 GMT

Hello I am a buyer and often wish sellers would use shopping carts to make life sososososo much easier 🙂 Instead of going through each and everything we want we could just press on buy and they are all there,,,,, I would buy more thats for sure if it was that easier ...

Re: Shopping carts please

digital*ghost — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:19:46 GMT

The cart is a function implemented by eBay and not a choice sellers can make. It has not yet been introduced on eBay Australia. Many sellers wish it was. 😉

Re: Shopping carts please

amnajane — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:24:17 GMT

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Re: Shopping carts please

crypsynight — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:57:28 GMT

Someone mentioned having shopping carts in a thread a while ago. It got me to thinking...

I can see it causing a lot of problems. Would the item be considered sold when it hits the cart, or when purchased. If when it hits the cart then you potentially have an unsold item that isn't viewable in your Store. Likewise, if it isn't considered sold whilst it is in the cart, then I can see an uproar of buyers who think they have purchased something only to then have it bought out from under them.

Also, it would be a problem for sellers with multiple purchase discounts as they would continually need to be aware of changes in peoples carts to adjust combined postage. Mind you that problem would be solved if it only applied to free-post items (and we all have our own opinions about that!).

Or maybe I'm just looking at it incorrectly.

Re: Shopping carts please

amnajane — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:22:59 GMT

the cart only allows a few items before you have to hit buy to them all so i dont think that would be and issus

Re: Shopping carts please

digital*ghost — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:33:46 GMT

Someone mentioned having shopping carts in a thread a while ago. It got me to thinking...

I can see it causing a lot of problems. Would the item be considered sold when it hits the cart, or when purchased. If when it hits the cart then you potentially have an unsold item that isn't viewable in your Store. Likewise, if it isn't considered sold whilst it is in the cart, then I can see an uproar of buyers who think they have purchased something only to then have it bought out from under them.

Also, it would be a problem for sellers with multiple purchase discounts as they would continually need to be aware of changes in peoples carts to adjust combined postage. Mind you that problem would be solved if it only applied to free-post items (and we all have our own opinions about that!).

Or maybe I'm just looking at it incorrectly.

Carts don't really function in a way that would cause any of those issues, it's effectively like being able to click "buy all" on a watch list and have every purchase processed in one transaction rather than clicking buy now, then confirm on each item individually.

Buyers add items to their cart, but they're not sold in any way nor does it act like any kind of 'reserve until later', so remains available for anyone to actually buy the item. (Carts are quite common with online stores, so it's actually quite surprising eBay has taken as long as they did to introduce them, which means a lot of people would be familiar enough to know how they work).

If postage discounts are in place to automatically calculate at checkout, or free postage is set up, then the buyer will be able to pay immediately. If not, they will need to wait for an invoice.

If/when the cart actually gets introduced here, anyway.

Re: Shopping carts please

auction_assassin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:37:59 GMT

But if i want to buy say 12 items, the shopping cart only allows me to purcahse say 5 items and then pay, do i have to keep buying and paying multiple lots of postage?

I'm sure the customer would be real happy about that...

You dont have to pay for each item seperately?

You hit buy now, then buy another item, then buy another until you finished, then request invoice for postage discount if required then you pay?

Some people seem to buy one item, pay, buy another pay buy another pay?

Just because you get a message after you purchase an item sayin please pay now don't mean you pay if you aint finished buying from that seller?

Re: Shopping carts please

auction_assassin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:44:11 GMT

Problem is unlike other online sites not all sellers import goods in shipping containers and have large quantities available for sale.

What if a small seller has only one item, buyer adds it to cart, someone else comes along adds it to cart and pays before other buyer realizes, gets all vindictive, buys somethin and leaves seller a neg for selling item on them they thought was theres?

I can see that happening, probly why there aint no cart on here.

If it aint broke, why fix it?

Its not that hard to click buy now, confirm, hit back to item description, hit back to store so i can continue buying?

Re: Shopping carts please

digital*ghost — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:45:08 GMT

I can't see why you would, unless the seller has immediate payment required.

You hit buy now, then buy another item, then buy another until you finished, then request invoice for postage discount if required then you pay?

The point of the shopping cart is to avoid all of that buy now, confirm, continue shopping, go to next item, buy now, confirm, continue shopping, got to next item etc etc.....request invoice.

The cart means a buyer clicks "Add to cart" on ALL items they want to purchase. If they confirm that purchase all items are bought at once. Like I said, if you could tick a few items in your watch list and just click "Buy selected" instead of going through to each listing and purchasing individually, which method would you use? 😉

Re: Shopping carts please

digital*ghost — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:48:23 GMT

If an item becomes unavailable, shopping carts can not process the order. I can't think of any reasonable minded person who would blame the seller for someone else buying an item before they did. Most people realise that putting an item in a cart doesn't mean it's theirs, just like putting an item on a watch list doesn't mean it's theirs.

Re: Shopping carts please

auction_assassin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:56:26 GMT

As long as i could purchase as many items as i required then yes it would save me a bit of time using the cart

But i not sure how it would work with the smaller sellers with low quantity, someone could go to pay and find the item in there cart has been sold 😮

Re: Shopping carts please

auction_assassin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:58:23 GMT

Ok, was eating a bacon n egg roll while typing slowly

I see, maybe one day they will introduce it, probly alot of re-programing required?

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crypsynight — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:03:25 GMT

If an item becomes unavailable, shopping carts can not process the order. I can't think of any reasonable minded person who would blame the seller for someone else buying an item before they did. Most people realise that putting an item in a cart doesn't mean it's theirs, just like putting an item on a watch list doesn't mean it's theirs.

The problem being that not all ebay buyers are reasonable minded. In fact you could almost count on the ones that aren't also being the ones that presume it is sold when it hits their cart.

I dunno, can see goods and bads about it. Maybe a hybrid of watched items and cart being the better option??

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patchoo78 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:21:32 GMT

It's exactly like a real shopping cart or trolley.. You put stuff in as you're walking around the supermarket but you don't own it until you pay for it..

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patchoo78 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:23:19 GMT

Maybe they could make it so they cart is only available to high volume sellers and those with a store, who do have massive amounts of stock available.. If it was just a small seller with only a few items, then obviously the cart would not be suitable for them

Re: Shopping carts please

digital*ghost — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:26:51 GMT

It's exactly like a real shopping cart or trolley.. You put stuff in as you're walking around the supermarket but you don't own it until you pay for it..

Except people generally don't yoink things out of your trolley when you're shopping at the supermarket. 😛 :^O

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sexy*harley*chick — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:53:02 GMT

Except people generally don't yoink things out of your trolley when you're shopping at the supermarket.

Have you ever added things to peoples trolleys when your doing your shopping when they arent looking, then make sure you pay for your stuff first, sit outside the supermarket and watch them as they unload their trolley, either not even noticing the item you put in there, or noticing it and looking at it oddly then putting it to the side and not buying it?

Now thats a hoot 😮

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davewil1964 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:41:10 GMT

Except people generally don't yoink things out of your trolley when you're shopping at the supermarket.

Have you ever added things to peoples trolleys when your doing your shopping when they arent looking, then make sure you pay for your stuff first, sit outside the supermarket and watch them as they unload their trolley, either not even noticing the item you put in there, or noticing it and looking at it oddly then putting it to the side and not buying it?

Now thats a hoot 😮

Please post a photo with your clothes on. I need to know who to look out for. ]:)

Re: Shopping carts please

paquin6 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:32:33 GMT

Another consideration is to leave the "back end" checkout and fulfillment to a good outsourced fulfillment house. There are lots of good ones. One is karolmedia.com. Karol fulfillment has been around for 35+ years - they started way back with 16mm film distribution.

Re: Shopping carts please

*new2vintage — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:24:50 GMT

Enough trolleys are already being dumped in the streets.