Quantity?

[mj-trading]

How do i switch the Quantity on my item as it says 1 all the time and i tried changing it to 5 and it will not let me!

Thanks

[admin]

You would need to first select "dutch" as the auction type. Then you will be able to enter a quantity greater than one.

[katandron1]

What if we had 5 of something but want to sell them individually with one listing. Dutch would mean that the winner/bidder would get all 5 for one price right?? Instead of writing up 5 different listings, I would want to list 5 items in one listing but sell individually. For example........I have 5 widgets....quantity available 5.....each being priced at $XX.xx. Buyer A buys 2 of the 5 widgets...I still have 3 widgets available priced at $XX.xx each.

[admin]

Kathy,

A dutch auction for five widgets would require five seperate purchases. So you are selling these widgets with a buy out price of $1.00. Buyer "A" comes in and purchases two of these widgets, and has to pay $2.00 plus shipping. Then you have three widgets left to sell, which would be reflected in the quanity available for that auction.

Or lets say that you have a start price of $0.01, with a buy out of $1.00. You have a quantity of five listed. A buyer comes in and purchases one via buy out, so you have a quantity of four left. There were eight other regular bids on this auction... The remaining four would be awarded to the buyers with the top four bids (unless there was a reserve that was not met).

Please let us know if you have additional questions.

[admin]

If selling singles of the product, be sure to list it as a single item. Then enter the quantity if you have more than one. If you say in the auction "we are selling five widgets", then this will confuse the buyer into thinking his single bid will win all five. I hope this makes sense...

[Lanascountry]

Makes sense to me, as just yesterday, I had a customer request for THREE of and item,
and I ran them separately, because it sort of looked like you were getting 3 for 1 money
when I set up dutch. PLUS I had to charge extra for shipping on the (3) as they were much
heavier than one..(sometimes I confuse myself!!) :D:rolleyes:

[katandron1]

:confused:Dutch auctions have confused me ever since I heard the term. Okay I was to understand that if I had 5 widgets, all the same, selling for a price of $10.00 each, I do a dutch auction,...I thought it was 10.00 for the 5 items......Say 5 different people win(wahoo for me, I made 50.00) every winner would get 5 widgets for the price paid...... BUT that would be 25 widgets total that I had better have on hand. That's what I thought the dutch auction to be.
But the standard auction you would list the item as a single item for a price and I have 5 of the item for $10.00 each. There could be 2 different winners/bidders, winner A bought 2 of the item (total of 20.00 plus s&h) winner B buys 3 of the item (total 30.00 plus s&h). Each winner pays for the quantity they wanted.
Lana is right ..........it does appear that if you win a dutch auction you will receive all for the price of 1. Hope this makes sense and if not I'm sorry LOl. Better to know than to be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[Lanascountry]

LOL, even a lot of local auctions (live) folks don't seem to understand..They just keep bidding and
bidding..and going to have to pay that for EACH!! (Usually some rich old couple wants one of the
items and runs the rest up too high..,:rolleyes:

[admin]

You are basically selling what is in your ad description. If you say "we are selling five widgets", then you are basically selling five widgets in that auction. If you say "we are selling this widget", then list the quantity greater than one... Then that would be an accurate portrayal of a dutch auction, where multiple items would have the possibility of being purchased by multiple people.

With our invoicing setup, it should calculate shipping for each item by adding all together. So the widget dutch auction has shipping set at $3.00. A buyer purchases three of these, shipping should default to $9.00 ($3.00 x 3 items).

[Lanascountry]

NAH..we gotta sell, admin..we gonna give shipping bargains!! :D

[admin]

Yeah... I would figure that sellers would give shipping discounts for multiple item purchases, but we can't be the one to make that call.

[Lanascountry]

I KNOW>>>>J/K..we are sorta wired and happy..you know??n Thank you, boss! :D