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Sorry. eBay.com cart. Same message. 
Yes, it is possible the buyer will stop and Request Total before paying if they hope that a lower postage cost will be the result. The other less pleasant possibility is cart abandonment because the total is too high. Although eBay does a good job reminding you that you left with items still in your cart -- I get messages about items that sat in it briefly and were removed after a few minutes -- telling me two months later to buy them. Two months after they were removed. But at least they aren't forgotten.
Here are my combined postage discounts. This was a major achievement for me, getting them set up just right. Adding item weight only. (Subtract box weight per item for each item added to the order.) I could afford to be more generous with reducing grams per domestic order than international since the price breaks are different.
But this is as close as I can get. It may undercharge the buyer a little but not so much that I couldn't subsidize it without involving the buyer. That problem with the dimensional limit on Tracked Packet really needs to be fixed but it's not a failing of the cart, per se.
The only thing I use flat-rate for is domestic oversize lettermail and it ships free. That 30 percent would apply to Xpresspost. I think a buyer has placed an order once where she selected and paid for Xpresspost on an item that would otherwise ship via domestic lettermail for free.
No, different currencies still mean different PayPal payments. I guess this makes it important for sellers to split their CAD versus USD into different product lines that buyers may not likely buy together anyway.
@mjwl2006 wrote:Yes, it is possible the buyer will stop and Request Total before paying if they hope that a lower postage cost will be the result. The other less pleasant possibility is cart abandonment because the total is too high. Although eBay does a good job reminding you that you left with items still in your cart -- I get messages about items that sat in it briefly and were removed after a few minutes -- telling me two months later to buy them. Two months after they were removed. But at least they aren't forgotten.
Here are my combined postage discounts. This was a major achievement for me, getting them set up just right. Adding item weight only. (Subtract box weight per item for each item added to the order.) I could afford to be more generous with reducing grams per domestic order than international since the price breaks are different.
But this is as close as I can get. It may undercharge the buyer a little but not so much that I couldn't subsidize it without involving the buyer. That problem with the dimensional limit on Tracked Packet really needs to be fixed but it's not a failing of the cart, per se.
The only thing I use flat-rate for is domestic oversize lettermail and it ships free. That 30 percent would apply to Xpresspost. I think a buyer has placed an order once where she selected and paid for Xpresspost on an item that would otherwise ship via domestic lettermail for free.
This was the trickiest part: there are different ways to combine your calculated shipping to create rules.
Adding or subtracting grams is just one of them. It was the one I needed to use. There are other ways to approach it. If you know your postage costs and weight/service breaks you could also just add a handling cost per additional item too. Maybe a different 'handling cost' for domestic than international would be required.
This does work well for sellers using mostly Calculated shipping and listing on .ca exclusively, but it gets extremely complicated -- in fact almost impossible to set up -- if a seller is using flat shipping and listing items on .com of various sizes but not necessarily widely varying weights (ask me how I know 
). I don't even want to think about tackling the task of devising separate combined rules for .ca and .com.
While I do use the promotional rule and have found it works well so far on .com for .com listings, I'm hoping the upgrades to the .com cart might mean that rule will apply regardless of listing site. That would be a nice addition.
@rose-dee wrote:This does work well for sellers using mostly Calculated shipping and listing on .ca exclusively, but it gets extremely complicated -- in fact almost impossible to set up -- if a seller is using flat shipping and listing items on .com of various sizes but not necessarily widely varying weights (ask me how I know
While I do use the promotional rule and have found it works well so far on .com for .com listings, I'm hoping the upgrades to the .com cart might mean that rule will apply regardless of listing site. That would be a nice addition.
I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about or not but based on the experiment I just did with your listings on the American eBay, if you have items in both currencies and a buyer adds some of each to the cart, it is not possible to "Request Total". That will only work with all the same currency, like if they buy 3 of your USD$ items. Combined shipping and discounts only works on same-currency purchases.
Or maybe you are talking about something else. Then just ignore that. 🙂
