on 30-05-2016 10:04 AM
I sell plants and they might be even too cheap - I basically charge the same than I do on markets. What do I do to encourage people to buy various plants at once - say 10 at the time or at least five? Until now I only sell one or two at the time? I cannot reduce my prices for multiple sales (or I would have to increase them first).
I offered 3 alpine strawberries for one postage, this did not work so far. I might do 6 herbs of your choice or similar.
on 30-05-2016 10:55 AM
Increase your prices. If you want to add an incentive, you could say "buy 5 herbs and a some parsley free!" Or even buy 5 get the 6th item free. Have a disclaimer saying the free item would be the cheapest item. People like freebies.
I've made a typo above and my phone won't let me go back and fix it. I meant to say buy 5 herbs and get some parsley free.
on 30-05-2016 12:26 PM
I rely on multiple purchases - have a look at any of my listings to see how I encourage combined postage
on 30-05-2016 01:09 PM
The best way to get buyers to buy more than one item is to have a wider range available so they're more likely to find more than one thing they want.
I notice some of your plants are listed under health & beauty. Anyone searching for those plants is not going to search that category for them but will look under plants, so they won't find them. You could possibly be reported and get a violation for listing in the wrong category too.
You've got in one listing "combine postage and safe". The first thing I'd do is correct your spelling and put save instead of safe, but I'd also give them an idea of the savings they'd make by buying more than one. For example, if you can fit three plants in a parcel under 500g, say so. Sometimes you may be able to fit four in but not always, so you could perhaps say "three will post for the same postage price as one, sometimes more, but please contact me for more details". I'd also say something about waiting for an invoice if they want to save on combined postage - they may not bother reading it but at least you've covered yourself.
I think you said once before your plants are different sizes and weights, but for ebay you might have to pick the plants that are similar sizes so that it's easier for you to work out postage and so you can make a definite statement about postage costs for multiple items. Once you get a bit of practice it'll be easier.
on 30-05-2016 01:21 PM
@*tippy*toes* wrote:Increase your prices. If you want to add an incentive, you could say "buy 5 herbs and a some parsley free!" Or even buy 5 get the 6th item free. Have a disclaimer saying the free item would be the cheapest item. People like freebies.
I've made a typo above and my phone won't let me go back and fix it. I meant to say buy 5 herbs and get some parsley free.
Check that you are set to HTML.
My phone started not letting me fix typos here two days ago. It will look odd but then you can change it.
The default is Rich Text, click on HTML next to it at the top of the text box if you need to amend your post.on 30-05-2016 01:37 PM
on 30-05-2016 01:56 PM
@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
@*tippy*toes* wrote:Increase your prices. If you want to add an incentive, you could say "buy 5 herbs and a some parsley free!" Or even buy 5 get the 6th item free. Have a disclaimer saying the free item would be the cheapest item. People like freebies.
I've made a typo above and my phone won't let me go back and fix it. I meant to say buy 5 herbs and get some parsley free.
Check that you are set to HTML.
My phone started not letting me fix typos here two days ago. It will look odd but then you can change it.
The default is Rich Text, click on HTML next to it at the top of the text box if you need to amend your post.
Thanks, I'll try that next time. It just wouldn't let me tap the cursor back up the message. I'd written everything before I realised and didn't want to backspace everything just to fix it! I've never had issues before, but this is eBay we're talking about! 😄
on 30-05-2016 08:09 PM
That's it exactly. The no-I'm-not-going-back-in-there cursor.
Only here.
on 31-05-2016 04:07 PM
Range is the best selling tool for multiple purchases.
33 items is a good start, but you need more, the more you have listed, the more multiple purchases you will get..
on 31-05-2016 05:00 PM
If you want to sell multiples the word FREE helps alot, buy 5 get 1 FREE