As an active and successful seller you are no doubt familiar with eBay's highly successful marketing strategy for sellers known as 3 Day Shipping Guaranteed.
Aside from entering into a more exciting competition for sellers pitted against other sellers with no tangible benefit for sellers, the program has a rare consequence of the goods not being in the the hands of the buyer within the projected time frame of those three days plus the estimated time of the Post Office offers as an estimate of their delivery.
I believe we have seen a post by one seller who has been stymied by the Post Office not delivering in accordance with their published delivery estimates due to the Christmas Holidays.
Further, there may have been one instance of a buyer being far off base by thinking the three days meant the product would be in his hands within three days.
The three day program has the added stimulus of assessing tangible seller penalties for those who fall below the minimum requirement of their guaranteed (that what guarantee means) efforts and the occasional shortcoming of an odd hard working employee of the USPS.
By the way, "Instead of pestering us little sellers, eBay should be pushing their big box sellers to offer better terms". eBay became the well managed, multimillion dollar company it is today by from the efforts of all those little sellers.
"Fly the Big Ones"
