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@pjcdn2005 wrote:We might be talking about two different things here.
In your listings you can set your payment preferences. The only payment method my listings mention is Paypal. Buyers don't ask or expect me to take any other form of payment although I would consider it if asked. As I said earlier though, it's been years since anyone asked.
In my site preferences I do not block buyers without a paypal account. That does not mean that I have to accept other payments.
So basically, we both have Paypal as the only payment option but if a buyer who does not have their ebay account linked to their paypal account, they can buy from me. They would be blocked from buying from you.
It's totally up to you how you set up your account so I'm not saying that you should do it the same way that I do. I'm just trying to explain the way that it works for me.
I think I get what you meant now. I'll give it a try and see if things are any different... 
Yes, 'femmefan/reallynicestamps' has a good point about adjusting shipping to account for the loss in FVFs, which I'd forgotten about (temporarily -- it's an age-related phenomenon I think 
).
Doing that -- recovering the FVFs from the shipping over-payment -- is entirely up to you, of course. I often do if a U.S. customer buys 2 or 3 items separately (because they couldn't get their cart to work), but usually only if the FVFs are significant enough and there's lots of leeway in the shipping amount to deduct those fees.
More often than not, I feel that if a customer has made a multi-item purchase it's not fair of me to nit-pick over a small amount of FVFs (say less than about $2.00) -- I'd rather give the buyer the benefit of the lowest possible shipping. It just depends on how you look at it: might a lower shipping cost entice the buyer to come back, or is it better to collect your $2.00 now and hope the buyer doesn't bother to figure it out.
By the way, this is another little area of grievance I have with eBay, the .com cart disconnect, and the whole manner in which eBay handles refunds of shipping over-payments. Consider this: While the "cart disconnect" continues, every time a .com buyer purchases more than 1 item (by buying them individually and paying the whole shipping on each), eBay is collecting FVFs that it never repays to the seller, despite the seller doing the right thing in refunding the buyer's excess shipping (with or without FVF adjustment).
Just another reason I can think of why eBay has no particular incentive in seeing that the .com cart works across the Canadian border -- they're making extra money on every such multi-item sale as long as .com buyers can't use their cart to buy from us. How much money -- who really knows, but it can't be insignificant.
@drucecat wrote:
"For example I had a buyer today from Japan, who purchased 7 items total, and fortunately used the cart, but if he didn't, I would have had an extra $1.80 in transaction fees, plus the FVF on the total postage. (The additional postage (Postage listed per item, less the actual combined Postage cost) I would have refunded)."
This really caught my attention (I'm the "cart disconnect lady", always collecting such information where I can 
).
Do you happen to know whether your Japanese buyer was logged onto eBay.ca, eBay.com, or -- is there a dedicated Japanese site??? -- when they made this purchase?
If they were logged onto .com, then they should not have been able to purchase 7 items from you using the cart, unless of course all those items were listed on .com. If all items were listed on .com, then the .com cart would have functioned, although I imagine you would have needed to have shipping discounts/combined discounts set up on your .com listings.
Just curious -- let me know if you can. Thanks!
