Request total and ebay shopping cart

[ozstockman]

Hi guys,

I have just tried to use eBay shopping cart but I cannot see any Request total function in it.

Have I missed it or it is just not availbale in a cart?

I just deleted all cart content, then used buy it now and requested total from the seller.

P.S. 

I could see ebay saying before shopping cart payment about how much I saved on postage but it does not make sence at all.

I have purchased from the same seller before and combined postage cost is about $25 while ebay is happy for me to pay $61 for postage because they have removed this functionality.

[harley_babes_hoard]

I used the cart yesterday and noticed the request total from seller is not visible anymore. It used to be up the top of the cart now it's gone. Not good at all.

[digital*ghost]

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@ozstockman wrote:

Have I missed it or it is just not availbale in a cart?

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It seems to only be available if the seller has separate postage charges and no automatic postage discount rules set up.

I just tested a few combos. One seller I know uses a mix of free post and post costs stated separately and has no auto-discounts. 3 items added to cart with postage costs, the request total was available. 3 different products with free post, no request total. A mix of free and non-free post items, request total available.

Then I tested adding items from a seller who has automatic discount rules - discount calculated automatically in cart, no request total available. 

[curraone]

Re: No request postage in shopping cart ....

in reply to mayger_and_mayger from bigbrickshop

a week ago

The Request is almost hidden! You have to hover over the cart and it will pop up.

[curraone]

The Request is almost hidden! You have to hover over the cart and it will pop up.

[harley_babes_hoard]

It's not there for me no matter how much mouse hovering you do.

[lyndal1838]

If the seller has a BIN option as well as Add to Cart then you have to actually BIN the items before you can request a total.

[harley_babes_hoard]

You shouldn't have to do that. You should be able just to add any item to the cart and checkout when you feel like it that's the whole idea of it.

[digital*ghost]

The request total button is in the cart, but the one and only time I have ever tried to use it, it wouldn't work (kept loading to an error page saying something like they couldn't complete the function. I'd be curious to know if anyone has actually successfully requested a total via the cart before the items have been purchased. 

[lyndal1838]

On the two occasions I tried to request a total throught the cart I was told I had to purchase the items first.

Now I don't bother with the cart at all....it is too much bother.

I have also found items in my cart that I definitely have not put there...items that I would never buy in a fit, as well as ites that i have no idea what they are even used for.

For my money the cart is a failure.

[digital*ghost]

Ok, I was really hoping the request total function would work as a bulk Buy It Now kind of option on items with postage the same way just going through checkout via the cart on others is. With it working so many different ways under different circumstances, and a number of other issues that make the whole cart process unintuitive (including purchased items not even appearing in the cart if I've won auctions and want to BIN items from the same seller), I have to agree that it's usefulness is currently extremely limited.