Quick ebay question, can anyone advise?

[dancerdog]

I've never sold more than one of the same item on ebay. I didn't think of the consequences of selling several of the item in terms of how it would affect the postage.

I am assuming the postage I have quoted for one item would be charged to the buyer even if the buyer bought five of the same - can anyone please confirm that this is the case?

I have previously bought multiple items from a seller, same thing in different colours. I was charged postage for each but before making payment the seller gave me a revised postage price. Hope that helps. I’ve sold things and done the same but always been different listings not the same listing. Hope that’s of some help.

It has been many years since I bought multiple items off ebay but normally sellers in my case combined items into one parcels and the postage worked out much cheaper than sending multiple parcels.

Put a note on your listing, OP, that says you'll offer postage reductions for multiple purchases ( don't be specific). Tell them to wait for you to invoice them before they pay.

Even if they pay immediately you can still part refund on postage, but mind the fees you incurred are covered.

Can reset the P&P to whatever you want when you send them an invoice.

It would be bad to charge the same buyer multiple postage charges if they have bought more than one item from you. Normally the seller will arrange combined postage so that multiple items are posted in one parcel with one postage charge. If you don't combine postage the buyer might cancel or leave you a bad score. As a seller you make your money on the item sold not the postage

Do you mean that you have listed a few items on separate listings, each with their own postage?

Or that you have more than one of a specific item and have listed with the quantity available, in which case the buy clicks how many they would like?

I list separate items and will often add in the description that I will give a discount for combined postage.
Recently I’ve been selling a collection of magazines and listed each one seperately with the postage for one edition, and in the description have given a list of the combined prices depending on the weight, eg one for £, 2 to 3 etc for £ and ‘up to 12’ for £

If a buyer takes multiple copies I then ‘send an invoice’ which covers all of their items and I enter the reduction either as a discount, or changing the postage to their options of Royal Mail / couriers etc at the combined prices.
The buyer then pays for all in one go.

Sometimes a buyer has paid for the first one with single postage, but also has a bid on another that hasn’t ended yet - I offer them to send now or hold pending the outcome of the other bid
(Some say to send now, others ask to wait)
If they get out bid then I send the first as it’s already paid for, if they win the second then I send an invoice for that item with a discount (and a remark to say that it’s for combined postage)

In the first version, if it’s paid in one go when I generate the label the tracking shows for the whole set, in the second version if paid separately then the tracking only automatically shows on one item, so I add the tracking number to the other

Sorry, I've not made myself clear - I was trying to say that if the buyer bought five items, at £6.00 each, and my ad states £6.00 per item and postage of £2.50, does the buyer get charged £30 + £2.50 as my ad stands, or does ebay multiply it up to make the postage is £2.50 x 5? (I don't want to charge the latter obviously but wish to raise the postage a bit to cover.)

And stupidly, I forgot to add the bit about combining payment

Ebay will add the postage charge for each item.
6 x £2.50
You are entitled to charge that & buyer is entitled to complain about it.

Revise the listing to say you offer postage reductions; how much will depend how many items they buy & how you need to pack it safely. Don't promise how much in advance, just keep it competitive.

Thank you for your replies.