Can I Decide when eBay E-mails Saved Searches?

TheVon

I apologize if this has been discussed before but I ran a search on the forums and a Google search and didn't find anything definitive.

I used to receive my saved search e-mails from eBay in the middle of the afternoon and that worked great for me because I could spend some time looking at the results. A little while ago I started receiving these e-mails in the middle of the night and although I can still get to them eventually I have this inexplicable feeling that I'm slacking off by not opening each and every e-mail first thing in the morning.

So, is there any way I can have eBay adjust the time those e-mails are sent or am I just at the mercy of their process?

ga5150

Not that I know of....

My saved searches used to come to me in the middle of the night and I'd look through them over a cup of coffee before work. Then they all started coming at various times of the day. Within the last week, they are back to the middle of the night and I look at them in the morning again.

I'm not sure what's going on with their system.

Probstein123

I don't think so either

TheVon

When I looked and couldn't find anything I kinda figured that was the case. Thanks for the confirmation though guys. I appreciate it.

KbKards

A little while ago I started receiving these e-mails in the middle of the night and although I can still get to them eventually I have this inexplicable feeling that I'm slacking off by not opening each and every e-mail first thing in the morning.

It's better for you that they send them in the middle of the night because it's just after the period when most items will be listed. Everything listed the previous night will be available for you to look at quickly first thing in the morning. If you set them to come in the middle of the afternoon it means all the other emailed and manual searchers have already been looking at them 12+ hours before you. If you're waiting until the afternoon to search it's already too late if you're looking for stuff that will sell quickly.

TheVon

That's a good point, but I don't have time in the mornings to give them as much attention as I would like to. Plus, I guess I'm just a creature of habit and over the past 5 or 6 years I had grown accustomed to looking through my search results every afternoon.