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I am new to Auctiva and cannot for the life of me figure out how this Auctiva insurance works. The help files in my experience have offered only superficial coverage of the subject and don't answer the questions I have.

Okay, so, initially I chose for insurance to be purchased automatically for every item sold. But then I was getting these notifications that the buyer bought Auctiva Insurance (which already confuses me to no end - how could they buy it, when I already selected it as the default? where they required to buy it or was it optional?), and there appeared to be a separate charge for it (!) (for the buyer).

Now, I promised in my listings that the shipping charge I quoted would already include insurance. I wrote to those buyers offering to refund them whatever extra amount they paid, but have not heard back from them yet.

I set up a dummy account to buy an item from myself, because I really needed to see how it works. The checkout did not say anything about insurance at all, AND on the final payment page said in the "insurance" line - "not offered". WHAT?! The Auto-Purchase Rules for insurance were still on "auto-insure all sold items".

Nor, might I add, did I receive any e-mail notifications that my dummy account bought Auctiva Insurance. It did, however, register as a purchase of insurance in my Auctiva insurance transaction activity.

So, seriously, I am totally lost. Confused
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Hello,

The notifications you received are basically order summaries that we are required to send out. Buyers are not able to purchase insurance as a separate charge, so when they go through the checkout process they will only see the option to pay for the shipping, handling and any taxes (if applicable.)
When you created the dummy account and went through the whole transaction process, the note you saw that says "insurance not offered" is correct since it is not allowed to be offered.
We are rewording many of the emails that get sent out to try and clear up any confusion.
Just keep in mind that buyers will not be given the option to purchase insurance as a separate charge, so there's no need for you to contact them to ask if they paid for it separately.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and feel free to contact our support team if you have any other questions http://www.auctiva.com/help/requesthelp.aspx
Thank you very much for your reply.

I have another question: if the buyers didn't have to pay anything extra for the insurance, how come the Auctiva Checkout confirmation e-mails I received were for a higher amount than the item + shipping?

In one case it was $1.75 more and in another - $2.75 more.

And the question remains, why did I not receive those same notifications when I tried to purchase something from myself?
Hi catbert,

There is a known issue that is causing an artificial amount to show up in the "Insurance" row on the Auctiva Checkout Details page when an Auctiva shipping insurance policy is generated for an item and it sounds like you are being affected by that. This issue should be resolved as part of our next site update that will take place in the second week of November.

If you check the payments that you received for these items, I believe you will find that your buyers actually did not pay anything extra for insurance.

If the item you purchased from yourself was posted through your Auctiva account while the "Use Auctiva Secure Checkout" setting was enabled, it should have been processed through Auctiva Checkout and you should have received an order summary email with respect to the transaction from Auctiva.

If you have any other questions about this, please feel free to contact our customer support team using the form on the following page of our site: http://www.auctiva.com/help/requesthelp.aspx

-Mike

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