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DealzStealzThrillz
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:40 pm Post subject: Charge Fee for COD Payments? |
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I have searched everywhere and could not find a solution to my problem. I want to allow COD payments, but need to charge the customer a fee for that payment method, since USPS does charge a fee to collect COD payments. Is there a way to do this? If not, I think this would be an excellent feature to add as many people could use it. |
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cosmicray
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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There is nothing at eCrater that allows you to charge extra based on payment form. |
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DealzStealzThrillz
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I didn't think so. |
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thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Why would you even want to offer COD? If it is for people who don't want to use CCs online, accept money orders. |
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school-yearbooks
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:49 am Post subject: |
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I agree, CODs seem like a disaster just waiting to happen.
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tigercreekgifts
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Add the fee into your shipping total. We ARE allowed to do that. I add a small fee to my shipping total for shipping supply costs and to cover my paypal fees. The customer won't know it's been added in unless you tell them. |
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MoonwishesStore moderator
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't know why any business would want to send something COD unless it is with someone they have a long business relationship with. Do you realize just how long you have to wait to be PAID. You ship the thing, the PO tries to collect the money, only junior is home, so the mailman comes back or leaves a slip for the buyer to come to come to the PO, they are currently broke so have no cash to pay and so refuse to pay and so the package makes its way back to you - eventually and you get to pay a bill for the cost to the PO. Even if they remember the order and do pay, it means you can go weeks without the payment that you had to send hoping they would pay. It is an extremely old-fashioned way to pay and has no real reason to be used in our electronic world. |
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DealzStealzThrillz
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat wrote: | Why would you even want to offer COD? If it is for people who don't want to use CCs online, accept money orders. |
Pretty much for the same reason you'd want to use any other payment method, to get paid. Some people like to receive and inspect their merchandise before they pay for it and it is a guaranteed way that the seller would receive their payment too. |
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DealzStealzThrillz
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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I do understand some people out there are against COD payments, but there are some out there against Paypal payments, money orders, cashiers checks (lots of fakes floating around which could cause a bank overdraft on your account by the way).. but some of us would like to accept COD payments and most of us are aware of what can potentially happen, just like things can potentially happen with all other payment methods... This is a matter of personal preference. |
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MaggietheCatsMeows
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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DealzStealzThrillz wrote: | thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat wrote: | Why would you even want to offer COD? If it is for people who don't want to use CCs online, accept money orders. |
Pretty much for the same reason you'd want to use any other payment method, to get paid. Some people like to receive and inspect their merchandise before they pay for it and it is a guaranteed way that the seller would receive their payment too. |
You don't understand COD. A buyer can't inspect the item until they pay for it. That mailman will not relinquish the package till the money is in his/her hand. The buyer can't take the package, open it and plug it in or try it on and then either pay or tell the postman to send it back. What mailman will stand on a doorstep and wait for that to happen? |
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MoonwishesStore moderator
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Well here is some info that I found at the usps.com site
>Notes
Purchase online or at a Post Office, or through your Rural Carrier, depending on the mail class chosen. Present COD for mailing to a Postal employee.
COD service provides the mailer with a mailing receipt.
Not available for international shipments, APO/FPO/DPO locations, and certain Freely Associated States.
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$6.95
Also here is a pdf of the form that would be attached to the COD
http://about.usps.com/forms/ps3816.pdf
Note that a person can pay by check at that point and the PO doesn't get in between the buyer and seller if the check is rubber or the parcel isn't what they thought they would get. The buyer CAN NOT have or open the package until they pay for it.
You ar looking at some big costs for your buyers. First the $6.95 for you to send it and then the cost of the actual COD (collect on delivery), and if the check is no good the $25-35 service fee from your bank. At least if you have the check sent to you prior to shipping you know whether it is good or bad, and while you may still get a service fee but you still have your product. With COD if the check is bad, they already have the item and you know they aren't going to send it back.
I don't see much positive in the COD system, but if you really really want to use it, then you need to have a serious discusssion with your postmaster about it. |
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