Question About Time Away and Handling Time Combination | Selling

virginia-internet-sales · 2023-06-28T20:04:38.336000Z

Hi, I need to go away soon to help take care of an ailing parent. I had some questions about eBay's Time Away mode for when people will be away from their business location. I know it's maximum 30 days if your listings are hidden and you can't make sales or maximum of 15 days if you set it up to keep your listings visible and allow sales to continue happening. Was wondering, if I wanted maybe a little more time than the 15 days but wanted to keep listings up and allow sales, can I just increase the handling time (now 1-day) on my listings right before starting Away Time? If I increased it to 3-day handling time, then would that essentially give me 18 days without penalty? Can anyone who's actually done this speak to whether it was a problem in any way? Not trying to "game the system" but it's a family emergency and I'm struggling as it is. I can only imagine how all my listings just DISAPPEARING for 2+ weeks would negatively affect my income. It's not like I'd be expecting many sales with the long wait potential customers would have to endure, but at least I'd collect a fair number of watchers that I could shoot offers out to when getting back to help QUICKLY pick things back up again. Thanks in advance.

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