Ebay - how do you make a postage discount on an invoice?

[PiccadillyCircus]

I must be doing something wrong (or not doing something). When I try and make a postage discount on an invoice, it doesn't work.

The bottom line says

Seller discounts (-) or charges (+).

So if I want a 50p discount, what should I type into that box? I have tried putting (-)0.50 and (-0.50) but when I press recalculate, it doesn't make any difference.

Anyone better at this than me?

Someone must know .

Flameboo knows how as she has done it for me before (cos I am rather crap about things ebaylike)

I will nudge her for you tomoorrow if no-one gives you any joy tonight, but she is woozy and in bed right now as she has had coil fitted today! (she won't mind me saying that by the way as she was posting Q's about it earlier)

does that help? or are you really needing to know now?

That's fine - thank you .

I am fairly sure you have to click on something to take you to a new screen to make it work - or have you done that bit already?

Are you typing in the brackets? You don't need to, just type -0.50 - sorry if you were already doing that :)

erm, piccadilly circus, u dont live in essex do you?

No .

ok!!

in that case there must be more that 2 people using ebay tonight!

My username on ebay is different from this one .

Still can't manage .

dp says you can do it, but can't remember how, try ebay q & a they're really sh*t hot!

I've been trying the Q&A - I think I must be very thick at the moment. Will try again (or ask the person buying to do it themselves) I think.

Right, I'm here. It might be because it is 50p, and it might only recognise whole numbers?

I'm just gonna go log into ebay a sec so I can see what it says etc...

It won't let me see the main thingy because I have nothing to buy (as tempted as I am to buy something nappy related on buy it now )

How are you paying? If you are doing it through paypal, then just click to go through to paypal, and it should let you change the amount manually once you get into paypal iyswim. If it doesn't, come out of paypal, email the seller, and ask them to send you an invoice with the real total, and you will be able to pay it with a link in the invoice email.

Ignore all that cr*p - have just read that you are the seller!!!

Errr... tell ya what - i'm going to give you a link in a minute, press "buy it now", and I can get an invoice to fiddle with.

\link{http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9530674367\here}

Have clicked .

Hmm - should I expand the nappy collection at the same time .

Oooh... will go sort out now.

Everything's sooo slow - may have cocked up - just waiting to see

Oooh it worked!!! Just type in "-0.50", and don't press recalculate - think the recalculate bit it screwed... it just does it anyway when it sends it.

You can do preview before you send if you want to check it.

Aah, thank you . Will try again without recalculating.

How do we cancel the non existant item I have bought from you by the way?

Just ignore it, or mark it as paid or something. I've managed to get mine to be "payment recieved"

Left ya some feedback too

Hooray - it worked .