Re: Has anyone been able to make the same on etsy as ebay?
Don't get too excited, the free shipping bug has started to infect the ETY buyer base as well, it's like a fatal infection.
I now get 3-4 emails a week asking things like "Do you refund shipping overages?", and, "If I buy 2 $3.99 discounted promotional items can I get free shipping?", and of course the famous "If you offered free shipping instead of overcharging me I'd buy a lot more", when I say, 'give me a list of the things you want to buy and I'll see what I can do', I get a list of several things totaling $15. Seriously? Free shipping for $15 bucks of stuff?!! You can't be serious!
I also love the ones who say "I want to make an amazingly large order for my business, what kind of a huge discount can you offer?" Then they want to purchase $20 and want me to customize it endlessly and exchange 50 excruciating, detailed emails, and think that's a huge order and they deserve a % off + free shipping. :(
I started just saying, "Great! I love large volume customers, how many hundreds each of XXX would you like me to quote you for?" Oddly, they never come back.
Don't get me wrong, I'll happily sell anyone a $4 order as fast as I will a $200 lot, but don't pretend you're something you're not.
I never do that to my suppliers. I order 250K pieces at a time and stock 2.5 million pieces, they know I'm a real seller, not some make-believe $100 month 'business' talking about their 'huge volume purchase', lol. |