[78-L] The Nuisance of UP International Priority Mail & The Global Shipping Program

[GAVIN WHITELAW]

Thanks for that, but I had 100% positive feedback which counts for NOTHING on Ebay. I was only marked down by a couple of sellers due to the POST OFFICE being slow and some sellers thinking £1 was too much for first class post and packing!

I have access to Ebay now should I wish, but as I had a number of regular buyers I contacted them all (paypal email addresses) and now sell from my OWN website to them on a regular basis, have to pay NO ebay fees and it is so much easier as they all know I am 100% reliable, post when I can get to a Post office (I work shid=fts) and everyone is happy.

Ebay is TOO big and impersonal now and you shouldn't have to resort to lots of cheap sales inorder to get your rating up - it is too complicated now with the star ratings as well as the feedback ratings and all it does is make it easier for the HUGE sellers and not the hobbyists like you or I!

Gavin R Whitelaw 

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On Sat, 26/10/13, Benno Häupl <goldenbough at arcor.de> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [78-L] The Nuisance of UP International Priority Mail & The Global Shipping Program
 To: 78-l at 78online.com
 Date: Saturday, 26 October, 2013, 10:08
 
 
 Gavin, 
 if you were suspended for good from eBay, then you made
 something wrong. 
 You got to know how eBay works. Admitted, it is difficult to
 understand and 
 even worse to keep up with all the changes, especially when
 you sell on 
 several of their sites, each with different rules: USA, UK,
 Germany, France, Italy...  
 
 But the principle is simple: 100% customer
 satisfaction.  So, if your buyer pays 
 and wants you to wait a week because he will bid on your
 next set of auctions, 
 you have to mark the item as being shipped (and inform your
 customer about why 
 you have to do it). 
 
 I am currently about to lose my Top Rated Seller status only
 because I had less 
 than 100 different customers from USA in the last 12 months.
 My DSRs are 5.0 
 throughout. Remedy: I am selling a bunch of cheap postcards
 at low prices only 
 to get more customer feedback. My average sales price of
 about $100 per item 
 will drop, but this will not have any repercussion. 
 
 There once was a glitch on eBay and I could see my own
 statistics for only about 
 5 or 10 minutes. They know everything: the amount of time
 you are logged in, 
 the average time you need to reply to questions, to ship, ,
 the number of failed 
 log-ins with wrong password, *ALL* IP addresses that you
 ever used to log-in, plus  
 a hundred more things that I forgot. 
 
 And if you absolutely want to be re-instated on eBay, read
 ebaystealth. You will 
 find it via google. At least it makes you understand how
 ebay's bots work. 
 
 Benno 
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