LY Corp Adds Bundle Buying to Yahoo Flea Market

Tokyo, Japan - LY Corporation announced Tuesday the phased rollout of a bulk-purchasing feature for its Yahoo Flea Market platform, enabling users to purchase multiple items from a single seller in a single transaction.

The feature allows prospective buyers to select multiple products from a vendor's profile or item page and propose a combined purchase price. 

If the seller accepts, the platform generates a single bundled listing.

Sellers must respond to bundle requests within 24 hours. 

Once a seller approves a request, the bundled listing remains available exclusively to the requesting buyer for 24 hours.

Before a seller approves a request, the individual items included remain available for purchase by other users. 

If any item in the proposed bundle sells separately before the seller accepts the bundle request, the request is automatically canceled.

Buyers must initiate bulk purchase requests through the Yahoo Flea Market mobile application, available on iOS and Android versions 2.61 or higher. 

While requests are limited to the app, the final purchase of a bundled listing can be completed through the mobile app, a web browser, or the PayPay mini-app.

For sellers, the feature requires configuring a single shipping method, as the platform automatically groups the requested items. 

LY Corporation said the update is intended to reduce the administrative burden of processing multiple separate orders and lower total shipping costs by allowing sellers to pack items together. 

Sellers retain the option to decline bundle or price requests.

The company said the feature will be made available to users in stages.