Setting listings for certain countries (not worldwide) to see description in batch edit?

I am wanting to change my international shipping from “I will not ship outside of the US” to this right here “I will ship outside the US. Please see details in the item description.”

The problem is that I am not seeing an area in update items as a group (what used to be called batch edit) to select certain countries to implement what I said above.

My next question is if I select the above when editing, does this mean the shopper can make the purchase and the sale will come to me as an offer?

Maybe I am better off to put the international verbiage in my listings and just keep the “I will not ship outside of the US.” checked off since international buyers still seem to be able to see those listings…

One thing for sure is that I am not wanting to put an international shipping price for either calculated or flat. I want them to email me ahead of time. I’ve got my USA weights, more so for lightweight items, at almost the actual weight for the item since I’m trying to encourage combined shipping. This would mess me up with international calculated and flat rate would be too much work to keep up with over time.

I wish we could set weights for international separately from the USA. This would be helpful. :) Sorry this is so long.

asked over 11 years ago

3 Answers

Update items as a group
Shipping
You should see International Shipping in the last column of your items..if none is set then it should say None specified

If there is no international shipping specified…at the top click on
Add International Shipping Service

Click on Flat Rate (leave it blank) then click on the countries you wish to ship to…

Select certain items or (select all items)
Then update

Depending on how items you select at once..it may take a few minutes to show..

Afterwards it will [URL removed] (these are the ones I selected)
Ships to “Canada” at price specified in description
Ships to “Australia” at price specified in description
Ships to “Japan” at price specified in description

even though it says price specified in item description…you can put International buyers contact for price in Set Max business days box

If an International buyer comes along…it will come to you as a OBO for you to add shipping

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answered over 11 years ago

ccmom
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2 Comments

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

Thank you Cindy. I must have done something wrong in update items as a group when trying it out for one listing. It worked this morning…maybe I did not mark a country when trying it out last night….I’ll think on it about setting it up so that it comes through as an OBO.

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

It might be wise for me to have it come through as an OBO because then an international buyer will feel more inclined to come back to the listing.. Hopefully they will know I will be adding shipping to their invoice. One thing I could do is put this info under their shipping blurb in my listing.

If I could do the weights separately from the USA for international shipping I would offer calculated shipping for international….on a good part of my listings.

Editing to add a day [URL removed] Wouldn’t you know my “view buyer’s in real time” showed that a Canada buyer had added a listing to their cart.

I do not yet have a shipping blurb in my listing for this one. Weight separately for international would have helped in having calculated shipping set up so the buyer could have just checked out completely.

answered over 11 years ago

5 Comments

ccmom says: November 08, 2013

It will use the same weight for both…question..why set set different weights??

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

When an item will weigh slightly over one pound “after” packaging, I put the weight at 1 pound 1 ounce rather than say 1 pound 12 ounces. I do this to encourage combined shipping because if they were to add 2 listings say to their cart, the combined shipping will come out better.

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

So if I have a package set at 1 pound 1 ounce (because for the USA a 1 pound 1 ounce package is the same price as a 1 to 2 pound package), I would really be eating money for international because after the packaged weight the item would weigh 1 pound 12 ounces.

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

I’ve got a lot of lightweight items set as flat rate (Bonanza has it now so that flat rate and calculated shipping will combine together at checkout ), so the flat rate for the USA messes me up with setting up international calculated shipping..

ccmom says: November 09, 2013

Understood..I have flat rate for most of mine and I have my international set up like I pictured. All internationals come as OBO..I email the buyer and tell him the shipping cost and if it is agreeable then I add it and they complete checkout. Because of the high cost many change their minds

You could try this until something else can be figured out.

Click on Sell on Bonanza on the left top of your Bonanza screen
Booth Options
Items ship within
in the box I typed 2 business days International customers contact seller for shipping quote
Save changes
It will then show in one of the booth panels – Providing you are not a paid member and using
them in another way.
I realize this will not completely solve your problem but might do for now.

I have checked in each listing that I will ship internationally see details in listing.

I hope this helps a little bit

answered over 11 years ago

2 Comments

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

Thanks Autumn, I’ve already had a blurb in for the USA in this area and have done it before in another booth for international, but it completely escaped me to add an international blurb in there now.

TreasureHaven says: November 08, 2013

Thanks Autumn, I’ve already had a blurb in for the USA in this area and have done it before in another booth for international, but it completely escaped me to add an international blurb in there now.

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