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

[David Lennick]

I had one customer in Australia who won an item and opted for surface mail, 
which can take up to 8 weeks (and did). He finally received the item two days 
ago and didn't launch a "where's my item" case, accepting my apologies and my 
proof that he'd paid for a slower service. When he went to leave positive 
feedback, he couldn't..the listing was outdated and didn't exist.

dl

On 10/26/2013 7:33 AM, GAVIN WHITELAW wrote:
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> 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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