Please help with fractional weights

[youselleasytradingcards]

First I want to apologise if this is a repeated question. I've exhausted myself looking for an answer already posted.

I am selling baseball cards. Most weigh .7 ounces. How do I place this in my product form so it may be automatically calculated correctly?

[acread]

You need to add the weight of your packaging in with the weight of the item itself. This will prevent you from undercharging for the shipping cost. The weight of the item is the total weight of the products and the pachaging that you listed. That is if you have 5 cards being sold as a group you take the weight of the 5 cards to gether and add the package weight and put that in the listing of the group as weight.

The units of the Weight entery in your product listings is in pounds so you need to convert the ounces to pounds before entering.

1 lb is 16 oz

So you just divide the weight in ounces by 16. That would be the weight in pounds.

[poopsheet]

1 ounce = 0.0625

[acread]

[poopsheet]

It's just another way to look at it.

[acread]

yep and that's what "same diff" means.

[poopsheet]

Oh, really? Thank you for explaining that.

[acread]

You are more than welcome

[youselleasytradingcards]

Thank both of you for the answer and the chuckle. One other question. Where did you get that number?

[acread]

the one poopsheet got? dividing 1 by 16.

Conversion constant from ounces to pounds. You can always google it in the future by putting ounce and pound in the search box, it is bound to give you one site that tells you the conversion constant from one to the other.

[youselleasytradingcards]

I completly understand since you have had to answer my question twice I see. I have kids and I didn't get through the whole message.. One more ques. then. Most bb cards are .7 of an ounce.. so.. if 1.0 is one ounce, how would I calculate .7 of an ounce? Or .5 or .3? Again, thank you very much for you help, I don't mean to be a retard I just want to make sure.

[AmbientLights]

Don't forget (like mentioned before) to include the weigh of you packaging.

.7oz is .04375 pounds (.7/16)

two cards would be 1.4oz and 1.4/16 = .0875

Just divide you oz by 16 always. If it were 20oz it still works (it always will ) 20oz divided by 16(which is 1 lb in oz) = 1.25 lb

Now that I've answered the math ?, I have a ? (sorry to hyjack!)

I made my pounds in my chart "oz" b/c that works better for my items but I didn't know if when adding a new product if I could enter say, 5 or 6.5 in the line for the weight since the chart is set up with 1,2,4,6,8 etc.

If I were to enter (ie) 5 or 6.5, it will automatically convert that from what I have entered in the matrix?

I hope I'm making sense w/ my question but I know I'm right on the math part

[noadi]

If you want to make it easier just do a little rounding .7oz is 0.04375lbs I'd just round it up to .05lbs. Such a tiny fraction won't make any difference in shipping cost.

[acread]