combined postage

As far as I was aware, Asking a seller for the cost of combined postage was just that. The buyer asked, the seller replied no or yes, and gives the buyer the price. Not anymore. If you ask the combined postage, ebay invoices you for the total postage for all the items, and orders you to pay, whether you can afford it or not.

Now here's the thing; in this case, the seller of the art supplies sent me an invoice with no reduction in postage, which is fine (I will not buy from them again), but I was not ready to buy NOW.

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combined postage

just to clarify, because some people do not understand what combined postage means:-

 

if the postage is £3.99 for each item, and there are 3 items, then if all 3 items are posted in one box, then the cost is less than £11.97. Asking for combined postage is sending the items in the same box and reducing the postage to the cost of the new weight / size - simple.

COMBINED POSTAGE DOES NOT MEAN ADDING ALL THE INDIVIDUAL ITEM POSTAGE COSTS TOGETHER.

 

 

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'COMBINED POSTAGE DOES NOT MEAN ADDING ALL THE INDIVIDUAL ITEM POSTAGE COSTS TOGETHER.'

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Unfortunately, with Simple Delivery, it often does.......... 

 

95% of private seller's sales *have* to use S.D. 

There is a way to make ebay combine the postage but it only kicks in if the *buyer* uses the 'basket' method.

Most buyers and most private sellers don't know this.

If the buyer doesn't use 'the basket' method, there is no mechanism for the seller to combine postage.

The only other way of doing it is to cancel all the separate sales, re-list as one large lot and the buyer re-buys. 

(And the buyer and seller really have to trust each other to do this.)

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Seems a bit daft.

If I buy 3 items to save on postage, and I still have to pay the total of the individual postage costs, then I will buy one at a time from whoever is the cheapest at the time, which means less sales for the seller.

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'Seems a bit daft'

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Yes you're right, it is : this combining postage problem is one of the most irritating bits of the entire, irritating S.D. system...☹️

 

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