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How to Get Shipping Discounts on eBay

by: davenders( 28894Feedback score is 25,000 to 49,999) Top 5000 Reviewer
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When you order items on eBay, sellers often promote that you can get shipping discounts if you combine your order. But buyers sometimes have a hard time figuring out how to do this, especially when they are new to eBay. So following are simple instructions telling you how to take advantage of combined shipping discounts on eBay:

1. Find the first item you want to purchase and commit to buy it. If it is a "Buy it Now" item, you can do so instantly. If it is an auction, you'll have to place your bid and wait for the auction to end to find out if you won.

2. Do not pay for the item yet. eBay will instruct you to pay for the item immediately, as in the following example:

                         

3. Instead, click on the small blue text that says "visit seller's store" (or something similar). You can also use the back button on your browser or any other means you know of to get back to the items you are shopping for.

4. Continue committing to buy all of the items you want, but don't pay for any of them yet.

5. When you are all done, go to your "My eBay" page. You can usually get there by clicking on a button at the top right of any eBay screen. Somewhere in your "My eBay" page you will see text about items you need to pay for, like in this example:

                        

Click on the highlighted text that will allow you to pay for your items.

6. This will take you to a page that lists out each seller you have purchased items from and how many items you purchased from each one, giving you the option to pay now. Choose that option.

7. From there simply follow the instructions on the screen to pay for all of the items from that seller all at once. eBay should automatically calculate any shipping discounts the seller offers directly into your invoice.

If you have any trouble with this, most sellers will allow you to send them a request for an invoice and they will calculate their shipping discounts and send you an invoice which you can easily pay.

I hope this helps!

Best,
Derrick Enders
Dave's Collectable Coins eBay Store
(a division of FAS Coins Inc)


Guide ID: 10000000012553494Guide created: 06/30/09 (updated 11/17/09)

 
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