Bulk editing price reductions on your listings is pointless
Summary: thatsabigtwinkie expresses frustration with the eBay bulk editing tool, highlighting the inability to view postage costs when reducing item prices. This limitation complicates pricing decisions, especially when determining discounts between items with free shipping and those with charged postage. They note that this feature previously existed and question why it was removed, urging eBay to improve the tool. The lack of this functionality has led to financial losses in their selling experience.
Why do postage costs not appear when you are bulk editing (price reducing) a number of items in one go? It makes an absolute mockery of the so called 'convenience' of bulk editing as you can't judge how much to drop an item by as you can't always remember if you are charging post or offering freepost - this matters on deciding how far to drop an item by.
I have mentioned this to an ebay operator months ago who thought it 'was a great idea that makes a lot of sense' but no changes to the tool at all.
I have been caught out several times reducing items only to find I was offering freepost and, after ebay fees and postage it has actually cost me money to send.
Now I am having to individually open an item to physically check if I ma charging for post or doing freepost so I don't get burnt! This takes a ridiculous amount of time compared with using the bulk editing tool.
I have been selling on eBay over 20 years but what really annoys me is that you used to be able to see your postage costs (or not) on the bulk editing tool. Why has this been removed?
Come on eBay, you can do much better than this!
stormatic2015
·2 weeks agoHi @thatsabigtwinkie
If you go into your business policys you should have several postage policys from what you have said. At the end of each policy is a link to see what listings that policy effects.
You can use this to show you all the listings of that policy and you can bulk edit the list it shows, which will then allow you to change the price to only the listings for that policy. EG. "Free Postage".
Hope that helps.