eBay

awishingwell · ‎01-29-2018

So if I print the shipping label at 10pm on a sunday night doesn't mean that the item got shipped so why does ebay state that it got shipped?

Maybe that's where I'm getting flogged by the gods for late shipping?

emerald40 · ‎01-29-2018

Just curious but why not print it the next morning when the item is actually going out.

awishingwell · ‎01-29-2018

because I like to have all my items ready for shipping at 8AM

castlemagicmemories · ‎01-29-2018

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So if I print the shipping label at 10pm on a sunday night doesn't mean that the item got shipped so why does ebay state that it got shipped?

Maybe that's where I'm getting flogged by the gods for late shipping?

Many buyers and sellers take issue with that wording, your item has shipped, as it clearly hasn't. I doubt that is not why you are getting flogged for late shipping.

You chose a stated handling time, and you need to ship within that handling time. If you are not, then the item is marked as late shipped.

emerald40 · ‎01-29-2018

I package everything on Sunday night, then put a number on the box to correspond to who it i being sent to. But do not run my labels until Monday morning.

But of course for me that means up to 3 maybe 4 of them so it does not take that long.

awishingwell · ‎01-29-2018

castle - does the buyer see the shipping date of the 28th? or do they only see the actual date it got scanned?

lookng2015 · ‎01-29-2018

Maybe because some of us have more than ONE item to mail out?

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

emerald40 · ‎01-29-2018

Did you read my subsequent post before snapping at me where I said it works for me because I am low volume.

lookng2015 · ‎01-29-2018

If you're using eBay shipping labels (which I assume you are) there's a box where you can add a message to buyer, which you can use to state the date it will actually SHIP and that will be on the email they get from eBay.

Now whether many buyers bother to read more than the email header is anybody's guess.

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

lookng2015 · ‎01-29-2018

Actually no I didn't, but I bet you also weren't up working 8 hours the night before either = )

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

emerald40 · ‎01-29-2018

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Actually no I didn't, but I bet you also weren't up working 8 hours the night before either = )

I work a part time job, but that is not the point.

If you can avoid getting a late shipping hit, then you do what needs to be done to avoid it.

And for me that means getting up 1/2 hour earlier that morning to print them.

lookng2015 · ‎01-29-2018

Erm I do..........I pack stuff on SUNDAY to go out MONDAY

Sheesh

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

city*satins · ‎01-29-2018

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Actually no I didn't, but I bet you also weren't up working 8 hours the night before either = )
I work a part time job, but that is not the point.

If you can avoid getting a late shipping hit, then you do what needs to be done to avoid it.

And for me that means getting up 1/2 hour earlier that morning to print them.

You make that sound like a virtue but it really isn't, in my opinion. Let's be clear what a "shipping hit' means.

There are a few numbskill buyers who think that an eBay shipment notice means that item went out that very nanosecond. They're the same one's that will gripe that the label was printed at 7 a.m but not scanned by the post office until 5 p.m. But they are few and far between and they don't actually impact a seller's standing with eBay.

There's no virtue in my opinion, running my eBay life to cater to the whims of a very few nuts and flakes like that.

I print my labels when I have a window of time to do it. That's not a virtue either. Nor a fault.

But late shipping hits don't really happen based on a buyer's perception of when a label was printed and scanned - not defect type hits anyway. eBay notifies the buyer at time of feedback when the item was expected, IF and ONLY IF ebay doesn't yet have info uploaded to show delivery. If they have info showing on-time delivery that's automatically greyed out for the buyer. If not, then the buyer is reminded when the item was due and asked if it was received on time.

There's no query to the buyer in feedback DSRs about when the item was actually shipped. eBay keeps track of that electronically.

So the only thing a seller risks is some negative COMMENT from a buyer griping that the item was mailed a day after the label was printed. Which means nothing in terms of impact on the seller's status with eBay.

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emerald40 · ‎01-29-2018

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Erm I do..........I pack stuff on SUNDAY to go out MONDAY

Sheesh

Why the need to be condescending.

I am simply telling you how I avoid a late shipment but also saying that I realize that it may work for me because I am low volume.

And I see another with a diatribe heading straight for me. (ducking and covering)

pjcdn2005 · ‎01-29-2018

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Erm I do..........I pack stuff on SUNDAY to go out MONDAY

Sheesh
Why the need to be condescending.

I am simply telling you how I avoid a late shipment but also saying that I realize that it may work for me because I am low volume.

And I see another with a diatribe heading straight for me. (ducking and covering)
No diatribe here, just correcting you because printing a label the night before shipping an item has nothing to do with a seller receiving a late shipment ding.