How can you include your own shipping options when using the sell a similiar feature ?
I have to now use My Products now to list as "Bid Bud" is stopping its members from using the site to sell as it looks as though it will soon be no longer ! I have used the site successfully to list items for a few years now as I found it so easy & not confusing.I have started to list a few items on My Products & to save time I have used the Duplicate option on a live listing to save time on having to go thru the long process of including the shipping details of a similiar item.The problem is that every time I use the duplicate function everything is there apart from the shipping where I have to manually put in my shipping options all over again which is time consuming & painful.As I don't use templates or TradeMe's courier options is there a way around this ? Any members out there that can offer advice I will appreciate it.
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AJ Community SuperuserWhen I duplicate an item, the shipping details also carry through to the duplicate listing - is yours not doing this?
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Gary-NZStocked Community SuperuserEditedTemplates are the way to go to save time. You can create lots of different ones that you can then choose from when creating new products. This is of course what the shipping template system in MP was designed for.
I don't have any problems though duplicating an existing product and having the manual shipping options carrying forward to the new product, so no idea why that is not working for you. Might pay to do the usual, clear internet cache and cookies, try a different browser etc.
As a test, I have just copied one of your dvd listings many shipping options versions to one of my existing products, saved it, then duplicated it and the 6 lines of manual shipping options duplicated in the newly duplicated product perfectly.
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Thanks guys for your replys. I have found it works if I don't change the catagory.For cds for example if I use the Duplicate feature & list in the say for example S for Simple Minds & then want to change to M in the cd catagory it wont duplicate the shipping.I have to fill it in all over again.But if I leave it in the S catagory (original) the shipping remains.I then have to go back to TradeMe & edit the catagory to the correct one.I have looked at the templates on My Products & there's no way of saving my own shipping details.Just the standard courier options & book a courier options.Oh well I'll keep trying.Cheers
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Gary-NZStocked Community Superuser
Maybe if you have lots to do you could try exporting, edit/copy the shipping options in the spreadsheet, then reimport to update. Yes, the templates won't work in your specific case as you are using freeform text in the shipping which you can't do in templates.
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Thanks Gary for your suggestion.It's a bit beyond me exporting/copy e.t.c. to a spreadsheet.Unfortuately I didn't stay at school long enough to learn all the tricks of the trade involving computers/internet techology.What I lilked about Bid Bud is you could create templates easily using freeform text.And it is brilliant at bidding on your behalf a couple of minutes out from the end of the auction when you're away from the computer.But with all the changes to the TradeMe site (most were unnecessary) the creator of Bid Bud can't continue the site for much longer.He created a site that was SIMPLE & easy to use.Something that TradeMe is drifting away from.
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