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| | | Author: | Koseller  | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 13:54 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 121 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | | | Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 13:58 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Koseller writes:
| | Hey Everyone,
I'm still a new seller and received an order request for nearly 600 items.
While this is great, this would take a considerable amount of time to fill, is
this justified in tackling on a small fee and what would be appropriate?
Thanks everyone
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How is this any different than getting 60 smaller orders?
Just bake your time into the cost of parts...
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| | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 13:58 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| only if you specified it in your terms prior. otherwise no. fees in general aside
from shipping/insurance/similar should be avoided. instead of adding a 5% fee
just raise your prices by 5% and never add fees. fees turn buyers away and are
often shady
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| | | | | | | Author: | Koseller | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 14:03 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | only if you specified it in your terms prior. otherwise no. fees in general aside
from shipping/insurance/similar should be avoided. instead of adding a 5% fee
just raise your prices by 5% and never add fees. fees turn buyers away and are
often shady
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Appreciate it!
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| | | | | Author: | outofthe60s | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 14:09 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Koseller writes:
| | Hey Everyone,
I'm still a new seller and received an order request for nearly 600 items.
While this is great, this would take a considerable amount of time to fill, is
this justified in tackling on a small fee and what would be appropriate?
Thanks everyone
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I prefer a large order over several small orders because I only have to pack
and ship 1 order instead of multiple orders.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 14:14 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Koseller writes:
| | Hey Everyone,
I'm still a new seller and received an order request for nearly 600 items.
While this is great, this would take a considerable amount of time to fill, is
this justified in tackling on a small fee and what would be appropriate?
Thanks everyone
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Use an average lot limit, then you can be sure that you get some minimum threshold
value for each lot (on average) you need to pick. I don't mind picking 50
lot orders if they are 50p per lot. But 50 lot orders at a penny a lot is a different
matter.
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| | | | | Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 14:53 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I see your store is a multiple of the same lots, is that how you store it as
well?
You either spend time consolidating before or spend time going to multiple lots
when you sell. Some buyers are also very put off when shopping by wanted list
if you have no good reason to have multiple lots of the same item (i.e. used/new/variation).
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| | | | | Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 16:42 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Koseller writes:
| | Hey Everyone,
I'm still a new seller and received an order request for nearly 600 items.
While this is great, this would take a considerable amount of time to fill, is
this justified in tackling on a small fee and what would be appropriate?
Thanks everyone
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Absolutely not.
Orders like this means your pricing is probably waaay to low. Adjust it to account
for your time.
What if it was multiple orders? What does it matter? You sold 600 parts. Congrats.
I'd hug a customer who bought 600 part lots from me
Crystal
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| | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2023 18:06 | | Subject: | Re: Fees on extremely large orders? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Adjour writes:
| | Orders like this means your pricing is probably waaay to low. Adjust it to account
for your time.
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Not necessarily. I've made big orders before using a Wanted List and the
Auto-Select algorithm, and it tends to favor stores with a big inventories over
those with low prices. Koseller currently has 6,030 items in 1,531 lots which
is pretty respectable for a seller with 59 orders and a feedback score of 22.
Every seller is a bit different. Some are just happy to get an order regardless
of size. Some would prefer fewer big orders since they can pack and ship all
at once, others would prefer many smaller orders since it spreads out the work.
If Koseller is considering charging a lot fee for big orders then they probably
prefer small orders.
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