Thanks Gary I must have been lucky the first few times I did this so that the listing went live basically immediately.
When I started using MP a month or so ago, one of the features that I really liked was the ability to create a "listing" without it going live straight away by saving it as Deactivated. Then at my preferred time, I could locate it on the Inactive list, check the box, click on Activate and the listing would appear on TM. I could do this for multiple items at the same time. In the last week, when I do that, all that happens is that the listing becomes Active but not listed. To get it onto TM, I have to go into edit mode, change the setting to Activated and Save, and do this individually for e...
Thanks S
I just had the experience of listing an item with My Products where it reported the error that the product code I had typed was already being used, so I changed it and got the same error. I did this perhaps 10 times before it was "happy". I then found that it had created multiple identical listings all of which were active on TM. Fortunately I discovered this quickly after they went live. if it had been tomorrow, TM might have wanted to charge me to withdraw all the duplicate listings. When I created another listing immediately afterwards, it worked perfectly (just saying that so readers u...
Thanks Callum I have created a shipping template and it works for me. It was the "Combine with another purchase" option in the template that solved the problem. It doesn't answer the question (and I don't expect you to be able to) as to why the shipping options for Buy Now are different to those for Auctions.
TM's changes today to the standard listing method has driven me across to My Products, despite being a casual seller, simply because I want the option of offering free postage when a second item is purchased - yes I still use snail mail. I managed to create a few Auction listings successfully, but when I went to create a Buy Now, the Shipping options changed from the following for an Auction : to this when Buy Now is selected - Specify shipping costs disappears - why????: I can't use a shipping template because it seems not to recognise the possibility of normal mail.
Callum I think you will see, as of today (29 April), the Specify shipping costs function has gone, and is replaced with an inflexible mechanism which doesn't recognise the possibility of combined postage - see screenshot. If you attempt a second option of $0, you get an error message saying the shipping options have to be unique. Yes, you can use My Products and set up a $0 (if purchased with item of similar postage) for now, but it is really set up for businesses, not casual sellers. TM seems to have forgotten that not everything sold on it is a package that needs a courier. Some of us act...
AJ echoes my concern. In the previous post from S with the various quotes from TM, the underlined section "unless you and the buyer agree otherwise" I feel is (or should be) significant. Where the selling conditions state that "standard post is at buyer's risk" and the person goes ahead with the purchase under those conditions, are they not agreeing to those conditions and forming a "contract" where the buyer assumes the risk for NZPost losing the letter (and letters, not parcels, is all I have ever been asking about).
OK, this most recent message changes things considerably - my "buyer's risk" statement is valid.
Thank you S and flossy63 for your comments. The majority of my sales are low price stamps ($1-2) which no buyer is going to be willing to pay tracking of $6.40 or $12.10 (if rural) to have sent. But I take your point regarding the buyer's risk statement being meaningless, and will start removing it from my listings, but also to include the tracked option, making it compulsory for the occasional purchase that is over $50. I will say that the TM system which prevents you from putting a $ sign in the shipping description is pretty silly.