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| | | Author: | LocoPorLego  | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 12:37 | | Subject: | Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 154 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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| | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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Sounds like they paid offsite. Refund the payment and have them pay onsite as
when tax is involved payment must be made onsite or else you are keeping tax
money which let’s just say isn’t legal. No there isn’t any other workaround
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| | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 13:54 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| How do I explain that to a customer? Cause I'm fuzzy on it myself. They want
to pay via paypal, is there some sort of "onsite" option for paypal?
I have no clue why 96% come thru just fine with the same info I provide, and
4% are like this.
In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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Sounds like they paid offsite. Refund the payment and have them pay onsite as
when tax is involved payment must be made onsite or else you are keeping tax
money which let’s just say isn’t legal. No there isn’t any other workaround
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:08 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | How do I explain that to a customer? Cause I'm fuzzy on it myself. They want
to pay via paypal, is there some sort of "onsite" option for paypal?
I have no clue why 96% come thru just fine with the same info I provide, and
4% are like this.
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If you have instant checkout then they pay directly as they checkout and if you
have invoices that you send out once you send it they get an option to pay on
the order page and from a message from bricklink. If you ever receive payment
for an order but it’s not marked as paid by bricklink then they never paid onsite
and if taxes are involved you have to refund it so they can pay onsite
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I informer the buyer, issued a refund, and the order status magically added "shipped"
as an option after the refund was issued. Odd. Now the status says paid and have
issued a refund. This all is very confusing.
In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | How do I explain that to a customer? Cause I'm fuzzy on it myself. They want
to pay via paypal, is there some sort of "onsite" option for paypal?
I have no clue why 96% come thru just fine with the same info I provide, and
4% are like this.
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If you have instant checkout then they pay directly as they checkout and if you
have invoices that you send out once you send it they get an option to pay on
the order page and from a message from bricklink. If you ever receive payment
for an order but it’s not marked as paid by bricklink then they never paid onsite
and if taxes are involved you have to refund it so they can pay onsite
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:16 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | This all is very confusing.
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life often is 
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:22 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 115 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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If BL is collecting tax or VAT from your buyers, then they must pay Onsite.
~Jen
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| | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:35 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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If BL is collecting tax or VAT from your buyers, then they must pay Onsite.
~Jen
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When I send a customer an invoice, after they checkout. How do I make sure the
customer pays "onsite", when they want pay via paypal?
(Background info: I avoid automated invoices on bricklink, I did it one time
and bricklink spit out a shipping price what was crazy low and I lost alot of
money on that order. With next to no help setting up automated invoices from
bricklink directly, I've elected to do it manually as to not get hosed on
shipping prices again in the future.)
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:40 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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If BL is collecting tax or VAT from your buyers, then they must pay Onsite.
~Jen
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When I send a customer an invoice, after they checkout. How do I make sure the
customer pays "onsite", when they want pay via paypal?
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ultimately you cant "force" a buyer to pay onsite as they can always
log in on their PayPal account and send you money but most buyers use on the
pay button on the order/in the message from bricklink. Instant checkout completely
erases the option for them to pay offsite so its a good idea to set it up
| | (Background info: I avoid automated invoices on bricklink, I did it one time
and bricklink spit out a shipping price what was crazy low and I lost alot of
money on that order. With next to no help setting up automated invoices from
bricklink directly, I've elected to do it manually as to not get hosed on
shipping prices again in the future.)
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you should not use premade ones as they are often outdated but make your own
as in general they are very useful and increase sales
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:48 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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If BL is collecting tax or VAT from your buyers, then they must pay Onsite.
~Jen
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When I send a customer an invoice, after they checkout. How do I make sure the
customer pays "onsite", when they want pay via paypal?
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ultimately you cant "force" a buyer to pay onsite as they can always
log in on their PayPal account and send you money but most buyers use on the
pay button on the order/in the message from bricklink. Instant checkout completely
erases the option for them to pay offsite so its a good idea to set it up
| | (Background info: I avoid automated invoices on bricklink, I did it one time
and bricklink spit out a shipping price what was crazy low and I lost alot of
money on that order. With next to no help setting up automated invoices from
bricklink directly, I've elected to do it manually as to not get hosed on
shipping prices again in the future.)
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you should not use premade ones as they are often outdated but make your own
as in general they are very useful and increase sales
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I'd love to use instant checkout, there's no way to decipher how to set
it up... Randomly loosing money from bricklink deciding to ship items for 1/2
- 1/3 the cost it actually costs me to ship stuff is not a good proposition.
I guess ill just add "Make sure to pay "onsite"" to my usually
canned invoice statement I send buyers.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:53 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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If BL is collecting tax or VAT from your buyers, then they must pay Onsite.
~Jen
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When I send a customer an invoice, after they checkout. How do I make sure the
customer pays "onsite", when they want pay via paypal?
|
ultimately you cant "force" a buyer to pay onsite as they can always
log in on their PayPal account and send you money but most buyers use on the
pay button on the order/in the message from bricklink. Instant checkout completely
erases the option for them to pay offsite so its a good idea to set it up
| | (Background info: I avoid automated invoices on bricklink, I did it one time
and bricklink spit out a shipping price what was crazy low and I lost alot of
money on that order. With next to no help setting up automated invoices from
bricklink directly, I've elected to do it manually as to not get hosed on
shipping prices again in the future.)
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you should not use premade ones as they are often outdated but make your own
as in general they are very useful and increase sales
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I'd love to use instant checkout, there's no way to decipher how to set
it up... Randomly loosing money from bricklink deciding to ship items for 1/2
- 1/3 the cost it actually costs me to ship stuff is not a good proposition.
I guess ill just add "Make sure to pay "onsite"" to my usually
canned invoice statement I send buyers.
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bricklink doesn't randomly do that all that means is something is entered
incorrectly in your shipping option. in general for the shipping option what
you do is select a weight band then select a price so for example this is mine
i have set up for shipping to the USA. when someone places an order it checks
the weight and then selects the correct shipping cost and charges the buyer that
amount. if bricklink charged only 1/3 of the cost then you need to update your
prices so its the right amount as bricklink only charges what you tell it to
as it has 0 control over what you choose
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 14:58 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Subject says it all, why is "shipped" not an option for "Order Status"?
Order has be paid, packed, now needs to be updated to shipped. This happens from
time to time and I have no clue as to why.
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If BL is collecting tax or VAT from your buyers, then they must pay Onsite.
~Jen
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When I send a customer an invoice, after they checkout. How do I make sure the
customer pays "onsite", when they want pay via paypal?
|
ultimately you cant "force" a buyer to pay onsite as they can always
log in on their PayPal account and send you money but most buyers use on the
pay button on the order/in the message from bricklink. Instant checkout completely
erases the option for them to pay offsite so its a good idea to set it up
| | (Background info: I avoid automated invoices on bricklink, I did it one time
and bricklink spit out a shipping price what was crazy low and I lost alot of
money on that order. With next to no help setting up automated invoices from
bricklink directly, I've elected to do it manually as to not get hosed on
shipping prices again in the future.)
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you should not use premade ones as they are often outdated but make your own
as in general they are very useful and increase sales
|
I'd love to use instant checkout, there's no way to decipher how to set
it up... Randomly loosing money from bricklink deciding to ship items for 1/2
- 1/3 the cost it actually costs me to ship stuff is not a good proposition.
I guess ill just add "Make sure to pay "onsite"" to my usually
canned invoice statement I send buyers.
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bricklink doesn't randomly do that all that means is something is entered
incorrectly in your shipping option. in general for the shipping option what
you do is select a weight band then select a price so for example this is mine
i have set up for shipping to the USA. when someone places an order it checks
the weight and then selects the correct shipping cost and charges the buyer that
amount. if bricklink charged only 1/3 of the cost then you need to update your
prices so its the right amount as bricklink only charges what you tell it to
as it has 0 control over what you choose
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Clearly I'm setting it up wrong, I thought that went without saying. Im not
saying someone at bricklink is logging in in the dead of night and messing with
my prices to jack with me personally. But as a semi tech literate young person,
and I have no clue how to set up instant checkout properly, and bricklink provides
no guidance, why should I?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:04 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | no guidance, why should I?
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it can help increase sales and prevents issues like NPB and people paying offsite
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:11 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | no guidance, why should I?
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it can help increase sales and prevents issues like NPB and people paying offsite
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Are you volunteering to hold my hand and help me set it up? Cause I need someone
to explain how to properly set up the "shipping" and "payment"
aspect of instant checkout. Short of someone who knows what their talking about
helping me, IE you/forum people. Id never figure it out on my own. Cause right
now I'm about 100 orders sold without instant invoice, and id just limp along
with my 3-4 orders a month how I've been going. But if you'd like to
help me, Id take it.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:24 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| sure.
navigate to this page
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/shipping.page
then choose add shipping method (picture 1) then click the center option and
name your shipping method then click create and proceed (picture 2) then enter
a note to buyers something like instant checkout for the USA quick and easy see
your exact cost upfront or something like that then select enable (you can
do that later if you want)and select automated (picture 3) then keep it on domestic
weight band. you'll see USA (mine shows Canada as I'm from Canada) (picture
4) continued in next message
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:34 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| then Enter each weight band you want to enter weight and the shipping cost. I'm
sure you can find a shipping calculator to find costs where you can find the
cost for the most expensive one and the cheapest zone then base your shipping
prices accordingly so you have a price you are comfortable with. you create as
few/many weight bands as you want so no matter the weight you don't lose
money make sure to incorporate your shipping supplies estimated weight into the
weight band for pricing. (picture 5) then you can optionally charge for insurance
or tracking or handling fees which is optional. then match your order minimum
to your store minimum if you have one and you can set a max $ threshold if you
want to not offer instant checkout for orders over a certain $ threshold (if
you put a max $ make sure you enable "Backup for Instant Checkout" on
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/management.page ) and you can also optionally
add package restrictions. and Then just click save changes and disable your previous
one and then you should be good to go. From here if you ever lose money on a
shipping option or something you can just go ahead and update a price or weight
band to accommodate. (picture 6)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:38 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | You should make a tuto on Yout^^ Yougurt! |
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| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | You should make a tuto on Yout^^ Yougurt!
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:41 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Your store is set up to ship 999,999 grams or 2204.62042 lbs for 16.49 candian
dollars? That cant be right.
In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | then Enter each weight band you want to enter weight and the shipping cost. I'm
sure you can find a shipping calculator to find costs where you can find the
cost for the most expensive one and the cheapest zone then base your shipping
prices accordingly so you have a price you are comfortable with. you create as
few/many weight bands as you want so no matter the weight you don't lose
money make sure to incorporate your shipping supplies estimated weight into the
weight band for pricing. (picture 5) then you can optionally charge for insurance
or tracking or handling fees which is optional. then match your order minimum
to your store minimum if you have one and you can set a max $ threshold if you
want to not offer instant checkout for orders over a certain $ threshold (if
you put a max $ make sure you enable "Backup for Instant Checkout" on
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/management.page ) and you can also optionally
add package restrictions. and Then just click save changes and disable your previous
one and then you should be good to go. From here if you ever lose money on a
shipping option or something you can just go ahead and update a price or weight
band to accommodate. (picture 6)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 15:44 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Your store is set up to ship 999,999 grams or 2204.62042 lbs for 16.49 candian
dollars? That cant be right.
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its flat rate for when it hits that weight band. i have different price increments
for each weight band but if someone orders over 1 kilo no matter how much over
that they order the shipping price wont increase as i then cover the difference
myself. i may change this in the future but if someone buyer over 2000 pounds
of lego from me the shipping cost would be the least of my worries however
this is optimal you an add more weight bands in between if you would like but
its entirely up to you
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 16:00 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Your store is set up to ship 999,999 grams or 2204.62042 lbs for 16.49 candian
dollars? That cant be right.
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its flat rate for when it hits that weight band. i have different price increments
for each weight band but if someone orders over 1 kilo no matter how much over
that they order the shipping price wont increase as i then cover the difference
myself. i may change this in the future but if someone buyer over 2000 pounds
of lego from me the shipping cost would be the least of my worries however
this is optimal you an add more weight bands in between if you would like but
its entirely up to you
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I really apricate your help, you've helped more then a handful of others
have. But I don't quite understand how to set up weight and size to equal
a real shipping price estimate. So sadly I'm going to keep doing it manually.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 16:05 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Your store is set up to ship 999,999 grams or 2204.62042 lbs for 16.49 candian
dollars? That cant be right.
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its flat rate for when it hits that weight band. i have different price increments
for each weight band but if someone orders over 1 kilo no matter how much over
that they order the shipping price wont increase as i then cover the difference
myself. i may change this in the future but if someone buyer over 2000 pounds
of lego from me the shipping cost would be the least of my worries however
this is optimal you an add more weight bands in between if you would like but
its entirely up to you
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I really apricate your help, you've helped more then a handful of others
have. But I don't quite understand how to set up weight and size to equal
a real shipping price estimate. So sadly I'm going to keep doing it manually.
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try using this https://postcalc.usps.com or find if your shipping company
like pirate ship which many use has one. you can look up excampe postal codes
from each of the USPS zones to find costs for example for me a 50 gram package
to the usa costs between $6-$6.50ish to ship so I charge $6.49 and you can rinse
and repeat based or experience or calculators for each price band
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 16:09 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| So shipping a 50 gram package for $6-$6.50ish and you charge $6.49, you loose
money every order on packing materials?
In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | Your store is set up to ship 999,999 grams or 2204.62042 lbs for 16.49 candian
dollars? That cant be right.
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its flat rate for when it hits that weight band. i have different price increments
for each weight band but if someone orders over 1 kilo no matter how much over
that they order the shipping price wont increase as i then cover the difference
myself. i may change this in the future but if someone buyer over 2000 pounds
of lego from me the shipping cost would be the least of my worries however
this is optimal you an add more weight bands in between if you would like but
its entirely up to you
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I really apricate your help, you've helped more then a handful of others
have. But I don't quite understand how to set up weight and size to equal
a real shipping price estimate. So sadly I'm going to keep doing it manually.
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try using this https://postcalc.usps.com or find if your shipping company
like pirate ship which many use has one. you can look up excampe postal codes
from each of the USPS zones to find costs for example for me a 50 gram package
to the usa costs between $6-$6.50ish to ship so I charge $6.49 and you can rinse
and repeat based or experience or calculators for each price band
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | So shipping a 50 gram package for $6-$6.50ish and you charge $6.49, you loose
money every order on packing materials?
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it was an example but it evens out so for example i ship 100 order out like that
i buy envelopes at about 10 cents each and i use 2 3 cent bags and similar to
the point where it evens out so i don't really make or loose any noticeable
amount of money on shipping orders out. 1 order i might "loose" 50 cents
on and then another order I might "make" 50 cents and after enough order
it just evens out to the point where i don't ever loose money and it works
out but its best to look at your results and if for example after 10 order you
figure out your losing 20 cents an order on shipping you can then go ahead and
iscreate shipping by 20 cents and you should be good to go
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| I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | So shipping a 50 gram package for $6-$6.50ish and you charge $6.49, you loose
money every order on packing materials?
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it was an example but it evens out so for example i ship 100 order out like that
i buy envelopes at about 10 cents each and i use 2 3 cent bags and similar to
the point where it evens out so i don't really make or loose any noticeable
amount of money on shipping orders out. 1 order i might "loose" 50 cents
on and then another order I might "make" 50 cents and after enough order
it just evens out to the point where i don't ever loose money and it works
out but its best to look at your results and if for example after 10 order you
figure out your losing 20 cents an order on shipping you can then go ahead and
iscreate shipping by 20 cents and you should be good to go
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
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then just increase the shipping a little but there's a difference between
loosing on shipping on every order compared to loosing on some and making on
other which evens out and ends up with you not loosing on shipping still if you
take a step back and look at the bigger picture. but if you still think your
loosing on shipping the raise the prices and it will work out
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 16:51 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
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then just increase the shipping a little but there's a difference between
loosing on shipping on every order compared to loosing on some and making on
other which evens out and ends up with you not loosing on shipping still if you
take a step back and look at the bigger picture. but if you still think your
loosing on shipping the raise the prices and it will work out
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I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
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then just increase the shipping a little but there's a difference between
loosing on shipping on every order compared to loosing on some and making on
other which evens out and ends up with you not loosing on shipping still if you
take a step back and look at the bigger picture. but if you still think your
loosing on shipping the raise the prices and it will work out
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I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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with this method across the board at your store you also wouldnt loose money
but you could do a split. with having instant checkout for most items but
then for larger items you could mark them as manual only and then charge exact
shipping so its a win win
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 17:07 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
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then just increase the shipping a little but there's a difference between
loosing on shipping on every order compared to loosing on some and making on
other which evens out and ends up with you not loosing on shipping still if you
take a step back and look at the bigger picture. but if you still think your
loosing on shipping the raise the prices and it will work out
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I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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with this method across the board at your store you also wouldnt loose money
but you could do a split. with having instant checkout for most items but
then for larger items you could mark them as manual only and then charge exact
shipping so its a win win
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Damn, that sounds like a really good idea. Instant checkout only for minifigs,
for sets I make it be manual invoice. IM BACK, haha Im going to try and set that
up for instant checkout.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 17:11 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
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then just increase the shipping a little but there's a difference between
loosing on shipping on every order compared to loosing on some and making on
other which evens out and ends up with you not loosing on shipping still if you
take a step back and look at the bigger picture. but if you still think your
loosing on shipping the raise the prices and it will work out
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I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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with this method across the board at your store you also wouldnt loose money
but you could do a split. with having instant checkout for most items but
then for larger items you could mark them as manual only and then charge exact
shipping so its a win win
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Damn, that sounds like a really good idea. Instant checkout only for minifigs,
for sets I make it be manual invoice. IM BACK, haha Im going to try and set that
up for instant checkout.
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sounds like a plan! and it could even work for smaller sets like if its a
cmf or a polybag
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 20:25 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | I get what your saying, but I can't ever loose money on any shipping. I loose
enough to paypal/bricklink fees, loosing additionally on shipping too isn't
a good business decision for me personally. Agreed, its usually like 25-75 cents
each for cheap little padded mailers in bulk, I used to not factor in packing
materials when I started out, establishing my store (I used to ship worldwide
too at no minimum, huge headache, I stopped after realizing how stiff PayPal's
terms are about lost/missing orders). Now that I am a little more established,
with plenty of positive reviews and that I sell large sealed sets to minifigs,
I choose not to loose on shipping ever anymore.
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then just increase the shipping a little but there's a difference between
loosing on shipping on every order compared to loosing on some and making on
other which evens out and ends up with you not loosing on shipping still if you
take a step back and look at the bigger picture. but if you still think your
loosing on shipping the raise the prices and it will work out
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I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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with this method across the board at your store you also wouldn't loose money
but you could do a split. with having instant checkout for most items but
then for larger items you could mark them as manual only and then charge exact
shipping so its a win win
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This way really works well. We have most all of our sets set up manual invoicing
only and all of our parts set up for instant checkout and we have had no problems.
I would definitely recommend setting it up that way.
We are located in California so our shipping cost increases according to how
far away the shipping address is located, so places like New York on the east
coast cost the most. To make it easy and to make sure we dont lose any money
on shipping, we have set up our shipping levels to reflect the prices for shipping
to New York. As an example, we charge $4.53 for orders up to 4 ounces (including
the envelope) which will cover the cost to ship as far away as the east coast.
Orders shipping to Arizona will cost a little less but we still charge the same.
Because we use instant checkout, our potential customers will know what the shipping
cost will be before they place their order so everybody is happy. When we put
sets up for sale we usually write in the Description how much the shipping will
be for shipping to anywhere in the contiguous US basing our prices on the east
coast and fortunately using UPS and USPS Ground Advantage, the prices are pretty
decent for our customers.
Jim
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 17:17 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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You are probably losing orders though. If one seller tells buyers shipping costs
up front and allows them to checkout quickly and another doesn't, where will
the average buyer go ...?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | LocoPorLego | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | | | I'm not loosing on shipping, that's the point. You just said you do loose
on some orders, and make it up on others. I'm saying across the board at
my store, I don't loose money on shipping... But I'm Loco. (pun based
on my username, don't take it personally)
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You are probably losing orders though. If one seller tells buyers shipping costs
up front and allows them to checkout quickly and another doesn't, where will
the average buyer go ...?
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Buyers go where the cheapest minifig, with the desired condition, with a seller
that has mostly positive reviews lately, which ships quickly, and is in the same
country as you. It never hurts to have a second, third minifig/set/part the buyer
wants. Sometimes for VERY rare part, you may buy x1 piece from a seller in Germany/Denmark
if you live in the US (but that's rare in my experience). Ive experienced
one seller that has the cheapest prices around, but ships orders 3-4 weeks from
when you place the order, which felt wayyy to long to wait for me. All these
rules/reason I do stuff is because for YEARS I've bought stuff on bricklink
and know what people want (not everyone clearly, impossible to appease everyone,
but if I can appeal to enough, on terms I find fair, I'm happy). Am I missing
out on some orders because I don't have instant checkout, sure. Does it really
affect me as a small seller, not really. IMO
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 18:42 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | You are probably losing orders though. If one seller tells buyers shipping costs
up front and allows them to checkout quickly and another doesn't, where will
the average buyer go ...?
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Would you rather lose orders or money? It sounds like the seller has experimented
with instant checkout in the past, but decided not to use it because they were
losing money on shipping: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1426820
If you sell sets within the USA, the shipping cost varies considerably depending
upon the destination, so it's difficult to set up instant checkout properly.
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
You're loco, I'm wild.
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | sure.
navigate to this page
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/shipping.page
then choose add shipping method (picture 1) then click the center option and
name your shipping method then click create and proceed (picture 2) then enter
a note to buyers something like instant checkout for the USA quick and easy see
your exact cost upfront or something like that then select enable (you can
do that later if you want)and select automated (picture 3) then keep it on domestic
weight band. you'll see USA (mine shows Canada as I'm from Canada) (picture
4) continued in next message
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All good stuff, im at weight band part and am confused. Weight is not the only
factor when pricing shipping. Size of item is equally important right? A 1 oz
shipment that is in a 20 inch x 20 inch x 1 inch can't ship for the same
cost of a 1 oz minifig, you get what i'm trying to say? Like a 48x48 baseplate
is going to cost more to ship then a minifig right? Even though they weigh the
same.
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | sure.
navigate to this page
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/shipping.page
then choose add shipping method (picture 1) then click the center option and
name your shipping method then click create and proceed (picture 2) then enter
a note to buyers something like instant checkout for the USA quick and easy see
your exact cost upfront or something like that then select enable (you can
do that later if you want)and select automated (picture 3) then keep it on domestic
weight band. you'll see USA (mine shows Canada as I'm from Canada) (picture
4) continued in next message
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All good stuff, im at weight band part and am confused. Weight is not the only
factor when pricing shipping. Size of item is equally important right? A 1 oz
shipment that is in a 20 inch x 20 inch x 1 inch can't ship for the same
cost of a 1 oz minifig, you get what i'm trying to say? Like a 48x48 baseplate
is going to cost more to ship then a minifig right? Even though they weigh the
same.
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you can add size restrictions like this this will prevent them from being able
to ship this way if you do this make sure to choose the backup for instant checkout
as explained on the 2nd message
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| But I dont want to restrict the length x width x height of someone ordering from
me. I want (the weight of the item + weight of shipping materials) + (length
x width x height) + (cost of shipping materials) to = the cost. I have large
sealed sets, and individual bricks for sale... I understand 60-80% of what your
saying, but that 40%-20% is where the important part lies haha
In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | sure.
navigate to this page
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/shipping.page
then choose add shipping method (picture 1) then click the center option and
name your shipping method then click create and proceed (picture 2) then enter
a note to buyers something like instant checkout for the USA quick and easy see
your exact cost upfront or something like that then select enable (you can
do that later if you want)and select automated (picture 3) then keep it on domestic
weight band. you'll see USA (mine shows Canada as I'm from Canada) (picture
4) continued in next message
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All good stuff, im at weight band part and am confused. Weight is not the only
factor when pricing shipping. Size of item is equally important right? A 1 oz
shipment that is in a 20 inch x 20 inch x 1 inch can't ship for the same
cost of a 1 oz minifig, you get what i'm trying to say? Like a 48x48 baseplate
is going to cost more to ship then a minifig right? Even though they weigh the
same.
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you can add size restrictions like this this will prevent them from being able
to ship this way if you do this make sure to choose the backup for instant checkout
as explained on the 2nd message
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 16:02 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | But I dont want to restrict the length x width x height of someone ordering from
me. I want (the weight of the item + weight of shipping materials) + (length
x width x height) + (cost of shipping materials) to = the cost. I have large
sealed sets, and individual bricks for sale... I understand 60-80% of what your
saying, but that 40%-20% is where the important part lies haha
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no worries. if you don't want to restrict orders you can manually adjust
the weight of items in your inventory to certain weights and then create a weight
band just for them or make sure your shipping costs are at a level where your
comfortable loosing say $5 when you ship a set out or something or work the $5
into your sets price so it makes no difference to the customer so that the rest
of your orders can be shipped out without you loosing money. to my knowledge
you cant create a shipping option with a minimum size although i may be wrong
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 18:35 | | Subject: | Re: Why is "shipped" not an option? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LocoPorLego writes:
| | When I send a customer an invoice, after they checkout. How do I make sure the
customer pays "onsite", when they want pay via paypal?
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Another option to consider, if you have not done so already, would be to change
the email address you use for BrickLink to be a different than the one you use
for PayPal. This would prevent buyers from inferring your PayPal address from
the invoice and paying offsite.
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