posted on November 1, 2007 11:30:54 AM
Does anyone out there use only Fedex ground for shipping? We do fixed flat fee per auction item via FedEx (US only) and have for years. Up until now, our flat fee and carrier has been clearly spelled out in the listing text and we've never had a problem with that (knock on wood is in order I'm sure). Now with the changes in searches my understanding is that the shipping has to be added in the auction set up.
I'm trying now to get set up with having the fixed shipping price for each auction show in searches and can't for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. Except that maybe it's that only UPS and USPS seem to be the only options in the list of carriers that ebay gives the "fixed" or "calculated" option on. FedEx is listed in the carriers, but not with those options.
Does this mean I'm forced to choose one or the other of the U's as my carrier in order to set this up? I can't wrap my brain around this for some reason....HELP please. Thanks so much!
posted on November 1, 2007 11:25:57 PM
Not only do you have to specify the shipping charges in eBay format, but you have to separately request that shipping charges display in eBay checkout. I can't revise listings in eBay to do this, I have to go to my original Vendio listing and revise it in Vendio. See the Vendio announcement for more specifics.
posted on November 2, 2007 08:58:32 AM
If you list with Vendio you can set up fixed price shipping with Fedex and have it show in the search by changing your preferences with Vendio.
There is a special box that that must be check in order for this to transfer over to ebay and show in the search. I believe it's the box that states "I specify shipping for ebay check out and ebay express" or something like that.
Set it at fixed price and pick Fedex as you carrier.
You can change it as you listed and even offer calculated in addition to fixed.
I'm still not happy with this new search as it forces me to pick a fixed amount which is higher than the cost if it needs to be shipped in my zone or closer than zone 8. A buyer will have to open up my page to see that shipping to them maybe less.
