What is Dawdle?
- Dawdle is a marketplace focused on gaming. You can list Video Games, Systems, and Accessories on Dawdle.
- There are no monthly fees, only a commission fee of 11.99%, which includes all payment processing fees. They also offer a reduced commission rate of just 9.99% for sellers that list over 1,000 items.
- For more information, please follow this link: http://www.dawdle.com/pros/
Becoming a seller on Dawdle:
You can register for an account [here].
After you have registered, please list one item manually, and then once you've gotten a confirmation e-mail, forward the Item Listed confirmation e-mail to Dawdle at pros@dawdle.com, and be sure to ask for FTP to be enabled. After they receive the email they will activate your Professional Seller Account and you will then be able to configure Dawdle in your FillZ account.
FillZ-specific Notes:
Dawdle is currently in Beta Testing on FillZ.
- Important: We are not yet able to confirm orders on Dawdle. You are required to process orders directly on the market. ***Please remember to wait until the order appears in FillZ before you process it on Dawdle.
- Currently Dawdle doesn't provide "Ship Via" with orders. This means that in FillZ we won't indicate how the buyer wants the order shipped.
- If you are listing an item in Used condition, you must specify "comes with" in order for the item to be listed on Dawdle. This is not necessary for items in New condition.
-To update an existing item with "comes with", you can find the item on the "Inventory" page of your FillZ account,and then click
on the SKU to edit the item. There is a drop down that you can use for "comes with".
-If you are importing files into FillZ and need to select 'comes with', you can do so with the UIEE format by using XDWITH|
or you can use comes_with when importing in FillZ Experimental format. When using either of these options, you will need to
supply the numerical value for one of the options below:
5 = New In Box
4 = Complete
3 = Game And Manual
2 = Game And Box
1 = Game Only
Configuring and activating Dawdle in FillZ:
- To begin activation, please click "Settings" -> "Marketplaces" -> "Configuration for TextbooksRus".
- Fill in the email address you used when you signed up for Dawdle.
- Fill in the FTP ID that you received after emailing Dawdle.
- Fill in the password that you created when you signed up for Dawdle.
- Leave the File Format as "Dawdle".
- We recommend that you set the order retrieval interval to 1. Your options are 1, 2, 3, or 4.
- Optional Settings:
• Suspend Exports:
You can check this box if you do NOT want FillZ to make any changes to this marketplace for you. This will
prevent us from sending any exports (new listings, updates, deletes, etc.) to the marketplace.
• Send Deletes Only:
You can check this box if you do NOT want FillZ to list any items to this marketplace but to send deletes only.
FillZ will only send a delete to the marketplaces when the item is sold. If there is a quantity of more than 1 for an item,
and 1 copy of that item is sold, we won't send anything to the marketplaces. If the quantity drops to "0" we will send the
delete file to remove that item from Amazon. We will also not send additions/updates to the marketplaces if the "Send deletes
only" box is marked.
• Append venue-specific text to item note:
Anything that you add to this field will appear in your "Notes/Description" field on this
market only.
- Click "Save".
- To finish the activation, click on "Back to List" under 'My Marketplaces' at the top of the page.
- Click "Activate" under Configuration for TextbooksRus.
- Click "Confirm activate and purge".
Important Notes about Dawdle
- An item must be in Dawdle's database in order to be listed.
- Dawdle will automatically mark up the price of your item to include shipping. Dawdle has fixed shipping rates. More infomation about shipping rates can be found [here]
- Only sellers located in the US, or select Canadian sellers can list on Dawdle. If you are located in Canada and would like to use Dawdle to sell to US buyers, please email pros@dawdle.com with information about your store and your experiences selling to U.S. buyers on other marketplaces.
- Dawdle requires sellers to ship items within 72 hours of a sale.
- "Modded" systems, "pirated", "backup" or "recovery" copies of games, or any other infringing materials are not permitted for sale.
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