Book Board Chat

jude51 I don't get that notice when listing via Turbolister. The only place we have anything about "multiple purchases save on shipping" is right in our listing template. DH did look into it when it was announced this spring. What he found was that since we don't use flat rate shipping it really doesn't suit our needs. We use calculated shipping and add .50 for each additional book. If we used flat rate shipping then we could set it to add .50 for each, but with calculated shipping ebay adds all the weights entered together and then you are to give what the discount would be. For example, you might say discount $1.00 to account for the fact that you don't have to use two boxes.

It just didn't work for us not to know what the total shipping would be, esp in cases like I recently had where a person buy 5 books. I suspect the buyer would end up paying way more than the .50 per book that we charge. I suppose we could put the discount in as $3.50 or something like that. That way might work but ebay's method with the discount on calculated shipping just didn't seem to be the best way of doing it to us.