Per Item vs Quantity Pricing

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   Hello Fellow Product Cart Users;

I have an online store that sells beads and other craft supplies.  We are currently updating the site with new inventory and new pricing.  There are many items that I can sell at multiple tiers of pricing;  a per item price, and a quantity bag price, containing a finite number in one bag, where the customer can buy more than one bag, at a discount over the same number of pieces bought separately.

For example, we sell a hummingbird bead this way:  Quantity:  1-5, Cost = $1.55 each.  We want to offer the same bead in bags of 6, each bag of 6 costing $7.95, at almost a 15% price savings over buying 6 pieces separately.

As we understand PC, the only way to do this is using the PC "tier pricing", and put in some strange prices such as the following:  Quantity:  1-5, Cost = $1.55 each
                                                            Quantity:  6-6, Cost = $1.325 each

Is there no way to change this in the current version of PC, such that we can offer a Quantity Bag of 6 pieces for the total price of $7.95 per bag, and have the customer say how many quantity bags they want to order?  This would be shown as:  Hummingbird Bead, single item: $1.55 each;  Quantity Sale of Items:  Bag of 6, Cost = $7.95  Quantity ordered:  Left as blank box for customer to fill in how many bags of 6 they want to order.

Right now as we have it in test mode, this is what we get:  

Quantity                   Save $
1 to 5 Units               $1.55
6 Units                      $1.33

The way it shows up is very misleading to the customer.  Units can be understood either as one or many.  The price as stated-anyone can think that the final price for all 6 units is $1.33...which is a REAL bargain, but wrong!  The total price for a bag of 6 beads at $1.33 each, = $7.95 never shows up on the page!

Quantity
Save  

1 To 5 Units 

$1.55 

6 Units 

$1.33 

I have come across this limitation of PC many times because of the type of inventory I sell, many of which can be sold either per piece for one price, or in quantity for another price.  Can anyone out there please suggest a way to work with PC to do this, in the least confusing way possible??!!

Thanks!

JubiliJudy