need time to think, how does a Canadian seller fit into this?

[Vince Jelenic]

Hi, some questions about where international seller (canadian) fits in between ebay, google, bonanzle, amazon, payments and more... just moved to the Antiques/Vintage business group.

If anyone has suggestions on how to tackle some of the issues noted, i'm all ears.

cheers.
Vince.

[RetroChick]

Hi Vince, I just posted a long reply and then I lost it, drat! but I think this is a good thread and am dealing with the same thing in Bonanzle. If you look at some of my recently added item's descriptions at : sort by (AGE newest first) http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/retrochick (my booth name is Sweet Past Times) you can see how I am trying to do a workaround. I am an American living in Belfast Norther Ireland UK and having just been here since June haven't had any sales yet in from UK so I don't know how it's going to work. I took all my american based stuff down when I came here. I believe you will be able to add shipping to Int'l orders via an invoice after an offer is made. I listen to podcasts that deal with some of this stuff and I'll look up the podcast and post it here for ya, Let's keep this discussion going cuz I'm making it up as I go along! I've been wanting this Int'l forum for some time. cheers.

[Vince Jelenic]

Hi Retrochick... we've met before somewhere, right?
IAO, antiques recyclers, greenspot live? my memory is getting old... :-)

anyways while I understand you can add info in an offer, one of the main problems I have is that without the shipping my items don't even show up as available to canada. When I login, my own stuff doesn't show up in a search cause I'm in canada, neither does it for any other canadians... Did you follow my full posting in the antiques business group here? There I indicate a series of problems, about 10, with selling as a canadian on bonanzle.

cheers.

RetroChick said:

Hi Vince, I just posted a long reply and then I lost it, drat! but I think this is a good thread and am dealing with the same thing in Bonanzle. If you look at some of my recently added item's descriptions at : sort by (AGE newest first) http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/retrochick (my booth name is Sweet Past Times) you can see how I am trying to do a workaround. I am an American living in Belfast Norther Ireland UK and having just been here since June haven't had any sales yet in from UK so I don't know how it's going to work. I took all my american based stuff down when I came here. I believe you will be able to add shipping to Int'l orders via an invoice after an offer is made. I listen to podcasts that deal with some of this stuff and I'll look up the podcast and post it here for ya, Let's keep this discussion going cuz I'm making it up as I go along! I've been wanting this Int'l forum for some time. cheers.

[Maria Van aka FabFinds]

Hi Vince, As a Canadian Seller on the Bonanzle site, if you want your items to appear in searches to international buyers you have to add flat rate shipping rates for each country in the batch editor. I have done it for all my items. If you need further help, I'm glad to assist.
If you don't know what your flat rate shipping price will be then you enter $0.00 for the flat rate shipping by country. that way at least your items will come up in search and you can specify the shipping in the offer/counter offer process.
Maria
fabfinds (on Bonanzle)

[Vince Jelenic]

Hi, Maria,
excellent point, set shipping to $0.00. overcomes the search issue.
In case a buyer buys, I guess I can tell them after the fact the shipping is not free? Or add a comment into my listings indicating that shipping will be determined after purchase.

If a buyer, who is NOT a Bonanzle member, buys the item, how to handle? Don't they just pay the amount immediately?
I can see where setting shipping to $0 might lead to issues upon sale to a non-Bonanzle buyer using the immediate payment option.. How would you handle that?


Maria Van aka FabFinds said:

Hi Vince, As a Canadian Seller on the Bonanzle site, if you want your items to appear in searches to international buyers you have to add flat rate shipping rates for each country in the batch editor. I have done it for all my items. If you need further help, I'm glad to assist.
If you don't know what your flat rate shipping price will be then you enter $0.00 for the flat rate shipping by country. that way at least your items will come up in search and you can specify the shipping in the offer/counter offer process. Maria fabfinds (on Bonanzle)

[Maria Van aka FabFinds]

Hi Vince.

I could be wrong but from what I have seen on the Bonanzle Forums about Int'l shipping, I believe how it is done is that you put 0.00 in the international shipping and add a note in your booth or listing asking the buyer to contact you for the shipping rate. Apparently, this way an international buyer will not be able to buy and pay immediately. To be able to sell to an International buyer you need to check the OBO (Best Offer) feature so they can make an offer and you can then counter offer with the shipping price.

There are a number of bonanzle forum discussion about this. I have linked one here for you.

You can also search any topic you need help with by going to the PEOPLE page, click FORUM DISCUSSIONS and enter some keywords into the SEARCH box that you want help with. That will generate a list of all forums that deal with that issue.

Here is one forum that deals with the International shipping issue. http://www.bonanzle.com/forums/51/topics/65760

Hope this helps.
maria

[Vince Jelenic]

Thanks, the most important point you make is that "a buyer will NOT be able to purchase immediately".
got it. this might work, thanks.

Maria Van aka FabFinds said:

Hi Vince.

I could be wrong but from what I have seen on the Bonanzle Forums about Int'l shipping, I believe how it is done is that you put 0.00 in the international shipping and add a note in your booth or listing asking the buyer to contact you for the shipping rate. Apparently, this way an international buyer will not be able to buy and pay immediately. To be able to sell to an International buyer you need to check the OBO (Best Offer) feature so they can make an offer and you can then counter offer with the shipping price.

There are a number of bonanzle forum discussion about this. I have linked one here for you.

You can also search any topic you need help with by going to the PEOPLE page, click FORUM DISCUSSIONS and enter some keywords into the SEARCH box that you want help with. That will generate a list of all forums that deal with that issue.

Here is one forum that deals with the International shipping issue. http://www.bonanzle.com/forums/51/topics/65760

Hope this helps.
maria