Shopping carts please

[amnajane]

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 ...

[digital*ghost]

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. 😉

[amnajane]

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[crypsynight]

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. 

[amnajane]

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

[digital*ghost]

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.

[auction_assassin]

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?

[auction_assassin]

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?

[digital*ghost]

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? 😉

[digital*ghost]

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.