International Order Preference
In the "My Bookshelf" area under "Edit Account" you can now universally accept or reject international orders. This is a fix for the problem where users were hit with high shipping costs to send a book overseas.
Monday, July 31, 2006
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6 Comments:
1. You should list the country of origin with each book entry. Why? because the fast majority of my international orders are slowly but surely being canceled. If I was able to locate books based on country. I could save more time and have a far higher success rate, which would make my experience far more pleasurable then waiting a week or two for rejections.
2. "Add a book" not "Add book"
3. Instead of a global preference for international shipping, how about adding a tick box to the "add book" page, that states if you're willing to ship that specific book internationally. That way, everytime you add a book to woybs you can choose!
Which could be listed on woybs in plain sight for each book, for example "Shipping: This book is available internationally" or so...
As it stands, I wouldn't have a problem shipping small books but bigger text books cost $$$.
Dr.G
Maybe add a list of all the countries in the profiles of the users, allowing them to select which countries they are willing to send to. And then based on the shipping options, the people trying to request a book will only see the books offered to their country/region.
Right now from the 5 books I requested, 4 have been rejected after close to 2 weeks, as I am outside of the US. It irks me, as I have plenty of points, I have sent out already a couple of books but I'm getting none in return. I am close to cancelling my account.
Sorry for the rant.
kislany,
I'm sorry about your situation. Unfortunatly for users like you the majority of people on WhatsOnMyBookshelf are in the united states. Recruiting international members will help!!
Ok, I found a solution for requesting books that can be shipped to US addresses only. I have a friend who is making me an mbag, so when I want to request something from somebody that does not ship internationally, I change my shipping address to that of my friends', mentioning 'for kislany mbag'. After I've sent my request, I change back the primary address to my own address again. As soon as the book arrives to my friend's house, she lets me know and I mark the book as received. A little longwinded, but it works :)
kislany...nice little hack...share it with the rest of the community
You know what annoys me most - and this is probably me being stroppy - but people who request books from me (in the UK) but won't mail internationally themselves!
Like Kis I am close to cancelling - yep I could set up an M bag but I then have to pay for that to be shipped as well as paying to mail all my books internationally. I think a fairer system would be nice.... I understand this is geared towards US participants but I don't think many people outside the US will join or stay with this as it is :-(
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