ebay shipping estimates are flawed

[albanysales8259]

I have a 3 day handling time on my items now and went from priority mail to parcel post. from chicago to 90210 ebay says item will arrive march 16-20 thats 7 days or under!!!!  I should have up to 10-11 days. no freaking wonder why my late shipping rates went sky high!!!!! 

[mtgraves7984]

If I'm not mistaken, eBay looks at your shipping time history (as well as your Handling Time) to arrive at the listing's EDD. (If I'm wrong, another poster will hopefully correct me.) I would think that it wouldn't cause damage to your Metrics, though, if you just keep up the good work... am I wrong?

ETA: I have 3-day Handling, and an order placed today (and shipping tomorrow) has the listing's EDD as 3/16 to 3/21. It's going to Hawaii, but I'm cool with that. 

[albanysales8259]

well here's the issue i ship through usps and its **bleep** its all slowed down around chicago.  so to protect myself i went from priority to parcel and 2 to 3 days handling to make a more realistic expecation of delivery for the buyer.  i called ebay and of course overseas call and they told me that they want the buyer to get the item as fast as they can i get that but the estimates are off by 1-3 days.  I really don't trust ebay these days seeing that these metrics are crap to begin with.  my biggest issue is usps i cant leave them for ups because i would go bankrupt with those prices.  something has to be done with the shipping metric. i ship everything priority anyways but it takes forever.  

[buyselljack2016]

yes, eBay shows the buyers unrealistic delivery expectations.

eBay goes by our "historical shipping data".   Only thing that a longer handling time does for us is to keep us from getting a ding on out seller metrics if we do take longer to get the item moving for some reason.