"Your eligible listings will soon feature delivery dates backed by eBay."
BlindedByEgo
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Does anyone else here get shivers up their spine when eBay tells them that eBay is going to back them?
"We’re contacting you today to share the exciting news that you have earned a spot in eBay Guaranteed Delivery because of your consistent on-time handling performance. Between May 1 and May 31, your listings that already meet Guaranteed Delivery requirements will feature a guaranteed delivery date backed by eBay. We’ll contact you again in May once this change takes place."
I drank the Koolaide and did what I needed to do to become a Top Rated Powerscrewer. I just have to wonder what they're getting me into now... I hope that it will come with a fee reduction.
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
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A fee reduction ... don't hold your breath.
I can see it now...
Your auction ends at 8PM.
Buyer pays within minutes...
You must print shipping label within the hour...
Post office must receive package by 10PM.
All of this to remain "Good" with eBay.
Later, Paul.
20% discount made it almost worth it, at 10% I am not sure.
I still think it's worth it. BUT, the one thing I object to is my "day" ending at 3:00 a.m. They use midnight Pacific for everyone. I think they should use 5 p.m. (banker hours) or maybe 9 p.m. If they really must use the full 24 hour day, at least end it when it is MIDNIGHT WHERE I AM. End rant.
Actually, I'm slightly confused as to how they are going to guarantee my delivery time. If I send it 1st class, which I usually do, there is no guarantee of time frame and it has become slower over the last year.
Their guarantee is only as good as the usps. A recent 11 day first class transit time shoots their guarantee all to hell.
Their guarantee is dependent on having in mail next USPS day - 1-day shipping. I am not sure what they do if it does not arrive by XXXXX. Person gets free shipping back? person gets item free?
I am not sure how many times my tracking makes it to the delivery post office, but never shows delivered.
For some reason, eBay has tried to compete with Amazon, I think they are different markets.
Gag. I just read all the rules. Basically, as a seller, if you ship in your specified time frame, you will be ok. If you ship it late (which occasionally has happened to me, if one a trip, etc) you will be responsible for refund the shipping charge you made them pay. If you had free shipping, apparently ebay will give them a voucher to use, and you as a seller will not be out anything. SOOO, basically, as a buyer, it will make sense to pay attention to when packages arrive, and if any arrive even a day late, file the claim and get some money back. Huge hassle for the seller though. Sellers can opt out, but of course it will hurt their search standings, etc.
Experience with eBay shows that new programs rarely inure to the benefit of the seller.
I have only shipped late twice in the past year, both times at the hands of USPS (first scan is the delivery scan) and eBay reversed one of them after I complained. I plan to continue shipping on time, so as long as those are the rules of engagement, I'll live with them. If I go on a trip, I "pause" my listings.
I agree that eBay's attempt to be more "Amazon-like" is ill-advised to the point of being stupid. Not a first for eBay.
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
Whenever ebay sends an email talking about how a process has been streamlined or improved for sellers, I check my wallet.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I think it means that they are attempting to copy Amazon as much as they can within their Ebay business model. With Amazon...if your seller "metrics" are below their requirements for seller privileges, you can be and often will be removed.
I can't see Ebay banning any seller for not making their guaranteed delivery date on too many sales. But then again who knows, and at the least I'm sure they will have an annoying message of sorts posted to you when the guaranteed delivery date isn't met.
<<< a guaranteed delivery date backed by eBay >>>
Now how Ebay will do this and what this means, I have no clue whatsoever?
Yea, and shipments must be 95% on time within the next day, which is impossible for me. I went from a 20% discount to zero in one month, the greedy little bastiges.
just what I wanted, shipping packages on my lunch hour instead of eating
Hmmmm, so what exactly does "...guaranteed delivery date backed by eBay," mean?
I think it means : "Sellers bend over and smile."
Seems to me that a pizza should be involved.
No, it means BUYERS bend over and smile.
eBay Guaranteed Delivery is a sham. I had a seller take 5 days to get his sorry lazy ass to the post office which was already beyond the "guaranteed" delivery date. I was more than kind in leaving a him a neutral. Within an hour it was removed. I called eBay and explained that not only did he not hold up the delivery promise with me, he also failed eBay.
She said he stated that I got my item and that should be good enough so they removed the neutral. I got pushy and demanding which got me a supervisor who said it would be investigated. The neutral never got restored to the slug's feedback.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
It is almost out of anyone control when it comes to USPS especially 1st class mail to HI & AK. I bought & paid a small item on 3/2 with ETA of 3/12 from CA. The parcel sat in 2 different hubs for a almost 3 days each + transit time and finally arrived in Hawaii 3/20.
Guaranty a Guaranty ETA is very hard to do unless it's Priority or FedEx.
Rant well received. I've had occasions where a payment comes in within 3 minutes of midnight. Good chance I was up until 11:45pm doing shipping, and I'm out by 5am and not back until after the PO closes. Do the math on my sleep. And yet I still have to head back to the office just to get that last item packaged up so it's shipped "next day" even though if the payment were 4 minutes later, I'd have had another 24 hours...
I read that a lot on the eBay page explaining all of this. What I think it means (and this is with some guessing) is that through the end of the year, eBay will cover all of the costs when a package doesn't meet the guaranteed delivery time. I extrapolate to mean they will use the time to figure out how/how much to charge the sellers come 2019 when eBay is no longer backing the guarantee, because hey, they can make the sellers pay.
Great for buyers, junk for sellers, going to lead to lots of neg feedback.
If someone pays me 3.50 for shipping and paypal takes a fee, I shell out 3.50 is me already losing money, now take fee cut and money out of my pocket? Sorry for language but f* you ebay.
The more I read about ebay and their rules/schemes etc., the more I am happy being a collector and not a dealer.
Cheers, RickO
It's also dependent on the the method of shipment you choose when you create the listing. There is no selection for Registered mail and this will really screw up their guaranteed delivery date as well as screw the seller on feedback.
Fortunately ebay says sellers will be able to "opt out" of the program.
Exit bunker, enter Matrix. LOL
Similar to that gold star the teacher stuck on the forehead of good children back in the day . Another badge like “power-screwer”. Means nothing.
Ebay, as an entity, or any of its employees or representatives have ever licked one of the stamps I purchased , nor applied a shipping label to a thing I’ve dealt in 17 years there. They like to brag, though.