Hello Heidi,
How nice to get an offical ebay reply to a comment I made. That has never happened before. (Well, ok once recently and It felt like a reprimand, and I didn't totally agree, but didn't know what to do, felt bad but, didn't answer, so, anyway.....)
Thank you for taking your time to answer. We appreciate knowing that our concerns are addressed.
And I must apologize for getting caught up in semantics. Raised by English teachers.
But, I have seen sellers rankled by this, and I must admit it caught me too.
This is not really a job. I don't work for anyone but myself. The best part about this is my schedule is not set, my time is my own. It's a job in the way making dinner or selling my house is a job. I had hoped to work it into a business, but not there yet. We are small sellers.
As to you don't want it to be any harder, we don't either!! If it were any harder, I probably wouldn't do it. We started trying to sell hard in January 2015. We expected it to get easier. It hasn't. The changing marketplace, along with ebay's changing policies , and increasing shipping costs have made it almost too challenging.
So, yes, since you were kind enough to reply to me, I looked at the new shipping tools. Not really surprised, but it made little sense to me at all. The one example showing west coast (expected that) as the origin of shipping, with cut off times, I just didn't get it. Maybe if East Coast had been shown as well, it might have been more understandable. Was that cut off a shipping time, listing time, payment time? Part of the example was cut off on the screen. As we are in flyover country, how does it apply? We sell a lot to neighboring states, but sometimes they have different time zones.
So now, I've already done what I was trying to avoid. Spending time on ebay, not doing anything to bring us more money. Just trying to understand a new policy. I'm sure that as the tool rolls out, and I can concentrate on what it means, that it will become easier. But again time. As it is said, time is money. Money is why we are here.
Thank you once again for your time and effort in replying. We very much realize that each of us has a different perspective on things. It is so hard to imagine all the different thoughts from this huge country with so many different lives, what is sold, where they are realitive to a post office on any policy. ( BTW to those who advocate postal pick up of packages, our mail delivery came at nearly 8 last night. At the best, packages could not sit out on the porch all day, weather, theft, etc and how might that affect scan times? No it's usually a trip to the post office for us!)
We hope that you at ebay will take our feedback in the friendly helpful manner it is intended. We don't want your job to be any harder either.
@Anonymous wrote:
@lindyslucky wrote:
What does customize the days we work mean?
We are pretty sure we already do that.
We thought we worked for ourselves.
New rate tables and calendar tool sounds like more computer stuff. Very vague.
We get a sinking feeling when these things come out.
As others post, it never seems like anything good.
We like selling things.
Really don't enjoy computer work.
Trying to learn to use new tools translates into less time listing.
Hi @lindyslucky - We definitely don't want your job to be any harder which is why we're introducing these new tools. They'll be able to help you customize costs and your shipping times. Check out: http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2017spring/shipping-tools.html for more info on what these tools will be able to provide. Give them a try when they're available and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions then!
mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
