My approach is to use a category based discount with a banding of 3 products and a 33% discount.  (see menu > Marketing / Quantity Discounts By Category).

So you could set up a 'Our 3 for 2 sale' category and associate the chosen products with it (which could be all of them).

cheers

Mark

My apologies for not replying. I was cleaning out my mailbox and came across your last message.

The discounts I use are pretty much hidden and in the form of coupon codes so you wont really see much, but here's the site address anyhow.

www.eveningsecrets.com

Hi Ed,

actually I never got it to do what I wanted but came up with some other ideas using the features provided that customers seem to like. Offering them a free product over a certain amount (needs coupon code). One way around it if you make the total amount required the same as 3 items (Buy 3 get one free).

Bundled products would work I think if you don't have apparel products. Since I use apparel products I can not use the bundle feature since the customer has to select a color or size( this feature should be implemented for all users, providing selection boxes where the bundled products are displayed). Right now it's a feature I cannot use.

Sorry I could not have been of more help Ed.

Take care.

Rick

Hi Rick

This has been a major thorn in my side. It's such a useful feature I was sort of dumbfounded when I realized I couldn't do it. I've tried figuring it out based on percentage discounts but that doesn't work. I'll go see if I can work something out with the cross selling/bundled package features.

I'd love to know what you came up with.

Thanks

ed

Mark,

I was able to use your ideas to accomplish a compimise between what I wanted and what I get .

I overlooked the bundled discounts altogether and with the cross selling feature things are looking pretty good. The downloads I misunderstood. My site does not use downloadable files, but I was hoping I could set one of my apparel products as a download but not treat it like a file.

I'd still like to see a feature that allows the admin to simply set a product to give to a customer for free when they spend a certain amount. Once this requirement is met it is automatically added to the cart, or on the verify order screen if not an apparel product.

Once again thanks for all your input and nice job on your site. Good luck in the future.