It can be a little confusing at first to understand exactly what to include in the item price. Do I include tax? Do I include shipping? Do I include shipping duties? We hope this article helps to clears any confusion!
Our best advice that we can give you is to add the item to your cart on the merchant's website and go through the process all the way up until actually purchasing the item. There you can see all the taxes/fees that may need to be included in the price on your listed Throne gift.
DO include the item price
Of course, you should include the item's actual price.
DO include high shipping
If the item has very high shipping costs or import taxes, you will also want to add these to the price. We have developed an algorithm that predicts shipping prices and calculates most taxes, however, our predictions are not always right. If you know the exact cost, it is best to add that instead of depending on our algorithm!
If you are importing an item from a different country (for example, you live in Australia but want an item from an American merchant) or the item is coming from a specialty shop like Etsy or eBay, which sometimes charge high shipping fees, it is especially important to make sure the price is correct as our predictions may not match the actual!
A good rule of thumb here is to add extra shipping and import taxes to the item if shipping and import taxes combined are above $10.
Again, the best thing to do in these cases is to add the item to the cart on the merchant's site, do the entire checkout flow and take the final shipping price and tax rate and add it to your item's price on Throne.
While you have the option to use our "default shipping" option, you can also deselect "default shipping" when adding an item so that you can adjust the shipping rate to match that of the merchant. Our "default shipping" is only an estimate of what shipping may cost for an item of that price on that merchant's website, so it is not always accurate.
If you know how much shipping is your best bet will be to add it in manually!
DON'T include temporary discounts
We generally recommend that you do not add temporary discounts into the item's price calculation.
Unfortunately if the fan buys an item at the discounted price you put in but the discount expires by the time we order the item, your item will not be orderable. We always do our best to order your gifts as soon as possible! However sometimes there may be a large influx of orders and we may not be able to get to your gift before the sale expires.
A good rule of thumb is to add discounts that are long-lasting but to avoid discounts if you think there is a chance that they will expire by the time the item is purchased by a fan and then ordered by us.
A less practical option, though an option nonetheless, would be to monitor the price closely and try to update it daily-just in case!