Quantity tier
I sell small parts. For me, a quantity scale is very important. I have customers who buy individual pieces for repairs and maybe a second one as a spare. Then there are customers who build small batches. They get a sample first and more later. That’s where my problem starts.
If I had a discount scale of 1,2,5,10, I could cover demand up to 10 pieces. If I then also entered quantities 1 and 10 as variants, maybe even 1, 10 and 100, I would have, in combination with the discount scale, continuous prices from 1 to 100, even up to 1000 pieces.
The discount scale as it exists now is not helpful. With it I can't achieve a continuous scale.
If one piece costs one euro, selling 3 or 4 doesn't bring any benefit. For my few expensive products that I offer at €250, it might be nice to sell 3 instead of 2, but nobody does that, and the person who buys 3 would have bought 3 anyway, even without a discount scale. If they need these parts regularly, then they buy 4, but would be even happier about maybe a slightly better price at 5, or 10, and so would I. A discount scale of 1,2,5,10 would make much more sense. It is no coincidence that coins and bills are also denominated in this way. Selling small parts is ao difficult because the fixed costs per sale are high and the unit price has to be set so high that sensible tiering is important, so that someone who needs 20 or 50 can simply get a suitable price.
sonja@ebay
·2 years agoHello @hobby-elektronik , on this topic, you had already opened a thread and we were happy to take up your suggestion. Unfortunately, at this time I can't tell you whether or when it will be implemented.
Best regards, Sonja
hobby-elektronik
OP2 years agomany thanks for your contributions!
I’ve learned something again, but it hasn’t really helped me move forward.
I want to stick with the example of the **bleep**s. Let’s say I now have 6 sizes in 4 colors. I combine the colors as variants and the sizes as variants. The system automatically creates 24 variants. That’s still fine. If I now want to add quantity tiers as variants, e.g. 1/2/5/10, the system turns that into 96 variants. You might think, okay, no problem, it does that automatically. But the thing is, for example, I only have the small sizes XS/S and M in pink, and the larger M/L and XL in blue. Then it gets really difficult because I now have to configure it manually. Adding a quantity tier is hardly possible anymore if I have to configure it manually, because I have to add the combination manually for each quantity tier.
If I were only adding two quantities as a variant, that would still be manageable. Combining that with a discount tier would be nice. Right now it looks like this for me: someone gets a discount from 1-4 and then again from 10-40 (quantity variant 1 and 10). Better would be a discount tier of 1/2/5/10. I could create the variant for 20 and, in the combination, would have a tier of 1/2/5/10/20/40/100/200. That’s much more effective than 1/2/3/4..? I think eBay set it up that way as an analogy to 1-2-3-mine. That may be nice, but it doesn’t get the job done. It’s not an incentive for the customer. If I follow eBay’s recommendation and give 10/15/20%, I’m giving 80% discount, based on the fourth shirt. Then I worry that someone will buy 4 because I probably paid more than 20%. The discount tier would be a nice and helpful tool, but eBay should take a close look at it from the seller’s perspective and calculate it. 20% off 10 shirts makes a completely different kind of sense.
petersmodellbahnstuebchen
·2 years agoHey @hobby-elektronik
have you ever tried solving the problem with variants and multi-discount? However, I don’t know whether both can be combined with each other.
So, for example, create the 1-pack, 2-pack, 5-pack, and 10-pack variants and then store the corresponding quantities and the multi-discount for each variant.
Just give that a try.
Best wishes from the Baltic Sea
Peter
raffke2012
·2 years agoTry this way:
How to create a multi-discount promotion
With a multi-discount promotion, you can offer buyers discounts when they buy more than 1 copy of the same item.
Here's how to create a multi-discount promotion:
You can offer tiered discounts (e.g.: “Buy one T-shirt at full price”, “Buy 2 T-shirts and save 5%”, “Buy 3 T-shirts and save 10%”, “Buy 4 or more T-shirts and save 15%”). Buyers will see your promotion in the listing.
kenn-i-di-1
·2 years agoHe already offers multi-discounts.
Honestly, I don't quite get the request.....
raffke2012
·2 years agoHello @kenn-i-di-1
with the program that @hobby-elektronik is using now, he can only offer certain quantities.
With the multi-discount, he can offer any quantity. The difference from the quantity-tier program is that the current program uses euro amounts and multi-discount uses percentages.
So, for example, if an item costs €10, then I can specify that when buying 2 items, there is a 10% discount.
For 3 items, 15% discount and so on.
kenn-i-di-1
·2 years agosammlerkiste-1-2-3
·2 years agoGood morning,
Peter was “the closest” 😋
The problem is the one I’ve already brought up several times: with multi-discounts there are only quantity tiers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc., but we sellers need discount tiers with freely selectable quantities, as TE წერს: 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100 or similar
The solution to the problem is simple: work with 2 variants in the auction.
1st variant: The item (switch 1-pole 2-pole 3-pole etc)
2nd variant: Quantity (1 piece 2 5 10 50 100 500 1000 etc)
As an example, here is a randomly chosen auction with boxes:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/264296285625
@hobby-elektronik would that be a solution, or did I misunderstand the problem too 🤔
kenn-i-di-1
·2 years agoSince TE works with variants, I assumed he knew that you can create multiple variants.
That’s why I wrote that I don’t quite understand the request.