Combined Shipping On Buy It Now Lots?

How on earth do I get benefit of combined shipping on BIN items. It looks like once you click on the Buy it Now, you pretty much are channeled into completing the entire transaction. I buy multiple items sometimes from Stanley Gibbons and I think some sellers have a shopping cart enabled, they do not. You have to messsage them following the last transaction is done and hope they will catch in time and not double charge you.

If the seller offers combined mailing and you buy 10 BIN lots in the one buying secession you would wait for the seller to send you an invoice with the correct mailing charge.

Before buying ask the seller.

Had a buyer 2 weeks ago buy 8 BIN lots and payed as they went which added an extra $3 per item for mailing. I soon learnt the new way to give a part refund.

I always ask my buyers to please send me an invoice request or even a message via ebay to send them a combined invoice. Sellers can send combined invoices from a link on the "My ebay" page.

Also when in doubt, like KGV said, "ask the seller".

Ask the seller before you buy if you can get free shipping if your going to buy 10 BIN lots and see what they reply. Its worth asking as they will want the business. And as stated above always wait for seller invoice before paying for any ebay lots. Several of my buyers pay immediately then buy something else a minute later and make a second payment for the next item. As KGV says this adds extra postage onto each transaction and seller has to refund the extra postage paid. This also happens with auctions, buyer pays for one item won the first day, item gets sent, next day they win another and pay another invoice. This could be combined and sure uses up a lot of postage stamps if they buy one at a time.

Whenever I buy multiple items from one vendor, I always use the "Add to Cart" option. When I've added everything, I hit the "Proceed to Checkout" button. That should do it.

Jack Kelley

When a buyer pays individually as they go along, do you refund all the extra shipping cost and just swallow the extra Paypal fees that they cost you by paying separately? Or do you deduct a bit for the extra fees that you paid?

I have made the mistake of paying and then suddenly seeing a second item that I want a few times over the years, and sometimes I get a full refund and sometimes not. It seems to me that if I (stupidly) pay one at a time, I should have to cover the excess processing fees that I incurred. No?

Add to shopping cart works for me.

Hi Jan S I always have to refund all the extra postage paid if buyer pays one at a time and I have to pay any paypal fee that goes along with that transaction. I am not sure if all sellers do it but I do give the postage refund. Buyers I wonder if your aware by paying one at a time from the same seller your probably paying a small % fee to paypal each time you do that. You can save on postage by waiting for seller invoices. Its happened to me this morning. Several buyers paid immediately on auctions they won. They won some the day before and paid on them as well so I already sent yesterdays paid winnings out. Its weekend here PO is closed and I could have sent two days lots combined if buyers hold off paying till they have the last item they want. If they pay we have to ship it that day. I get so many buyers paying one item at a time per day I go through up to 50 postage stamps a week. I often think maybe buyers just like getting heaps of letters in their mail box.

Thanks for comments- however what I think a few of you didn't notice is that I mentioned- SG does not have the 'add to cart' option in their ebay listings! I have asked them about this in the past but they still keep putting listings out there without this. If that were available I wouldn't have had to pay double shipping on my items. I agree the shopping cart makes buying several things at one time and from the same vendor a breeze. Not sure if there is an additional listing fee for a seller to do that but wouldn't you think a vendor like SG would do so?

Interesting to have noticed an increase to the amount of sales that need refund attention because of over charging on mailing cost of an auto invoice from ebay.