Heres an idea I've never seen

[raindropsies]

When someone does a search, give them a checkbox (or what ever the technical name is) so that a buyer can select more than 1 auction, and then have at the bottom of the page a button that simply says buy all selected or place bid on all selected.

[bykimbo]

Interesting idea. How would it work? You'd still need to step through each listing somehow, to confirm each bid amount or buy now price payment, no? Hmmmm... would you split Fixed Prices and Auctions? And what about multi-item listings, you'd need to ask how many were needed. Wouldn't you need to posh just as many buttons in the end anyway? I'm not quite clear on the process - can you talk it through a bit more and explain the advantages?

[raindropsies]

Interesting idea. How would it work? You'd still need to step through each listing somehow, to confirm each bid amount or buy now price payment, no? Hmmmm... would you split Fixed Prices and Auctions? And what about multi-item listings, you'd need to ask how many were needed. Wouldn't you need to posh just as many buttons in the end anyway? I'm not quite clear on the process - can you talk it through a bit more and explain the advantages?

lets say I choose 5 items. 2 buy now, 2 bid, 1 with buy now and bid.
After ticking the box, and then the appropriately named bottom box, it would simply give me a pop up box, with 3 sections, bidtick, buy tick & qty,
or another way would be
rather than just having 1 box on results page, have 2 and a drop box, 1 tick for bid, 1 tick for bid and drop box for qty if applicable. The 2nd way would be easier I would imagine. Then after selecting relevant things just a button on bottom to say place bids / buy now, followed by usual pop up box to confirm x y z

[raindropsies]

Advantages ( from my view on current buying) is I type in unfranked* as my eldest is doing a project, so I type it in and search. Up comes 75 listings, the ones I want would simply get a tick followed by a button at the bottom, followed by normal confirm button. This would save me time going into every listing which in effect is 4 clicks per auction (I think) 1 to enter auction, 1 to buy now, 1 to confirm, 1 to return back to results. Now if you times this by 5 auctions thats 20 clicks, which would be 8 more than needed (minimum) if my method was in use as a choice. The other day I made 37 stamp purchases (from same seller) and had to make 148 clicks where if it's a qty of 1 (which they all were) I could have simply selected the 37 auctions, no drop box as there is only one followed by buy now 37 item, followed by confirm is just 39 clicks which is over a hundred less than what I had to do

[tjsprinting]

would that be a kind of shopping cart then??

[craig7501]

I think it's a good idea, that way buyers can tick so many to place bids on and so many to buy instantly. It could work quite well

[TexasAda]

While I am certainly not a binge shopper, once in a while it does seem like it'd be easier to buy several items in succession while browsing, rather than go through the whole routine for each item individually. Where this strikes me it would make life most easy is when you want to buy from several different sellers. Would that complicate it too much? Is that what you're already discussing?

[craig7501]

Ada, the way I see it is and Sarah will probably disagree with my version of it is:

A buyer signs up to ebid or is already a member and decides to browse eBid for certain items, he/she see's items from Seller A that he/she likes so places them in a shopping basket(so to speak) then browses through eBid again and see's Seller B has some items that they want and adds them to their basket, goes back browsing and see's Seller C has some items that they want and adds them to the basket, the buyers basket shall we say is now holding 20 items, the buyer then thinks that they need 10 items immediately so marks them as buy now and the others as an opening bid because they want the items but can wait for them, that way the buyer gets to pay for the 10 items straight away and can then wait for the next 10 to finish before buying those items.

Something along the lines similiar to 'all delete' and 'all repost', but have an 'All Bid' button and an 'All Buy' Button, with little boxes next to the items where buyers can also choose whether or not to bid/buy all items

[craig7501]

Correct me if I'm wrong Sarah but do you mean something like this:

[hotandvintage]

The first idea I would worry about it as a seller, as for a buyer to buy from search without reading the listing would be risky for both buyer and seller.

Doing it from watched items however would not be a problem, as that would become like a shopping cart, and maybe make it useful for once.