Ebay First Class to Ground Advantage Bulk Edit Problem, LARGE QUANTITIES, No Business Policies

[maverickindustrialsales]

We have 30,000 active ebay listing, and do NOT use ebay business policies.  Instead, we have 20 listing templates that our team uses when creating new listings.  We have avoided using business policies because we like the ability to customize shipping specifics and return specifics when we are listing items because certain items are required to be shipped a certain way, or not allowed to be shipped a certain way (batteries, liquids, some test equipment, etc).

Around 10,000 of our listings are "calculated shipping" with USPS First Class as the first option which we have as free for the buyers.  Then we have Priority Mail, UPS Ground, and UPS Next Day Air as optional calculated upgrades for the buyer if they want to pay for a different shipping service.  

What do we do?  I am unable to find a way to bulk-edit these items.  The bulk editing tool does not allow us to filter our listings by first-class listings.  When I download a CSV of our listings there is no way for us to sort them by first class either.

Is there not a way for Ebay on the back-end to create a rule to automatically switch first-class listings to ground advantage?

Is there anything we can do to automate this or will all of my first-class listings be removed from ebay?

[mr_lincoln]

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@suzysemporium wrote:

Thank you. It sounds like Ebay gave preferential treatment to business policies with no problems making the switch. Then threw their hands in the air when it came to people not using their policies. Or their tech crew has no idea how to fix it even if they fully understand the issue.

Something I noticed with Ebay over the years. Once they introduce their newest, latest, greatest feature, they start to abandon the old features. Until they completely abondon them, and make everyone use the new features. 

I hope you can find a quick fix that won't rack up so many employee hours.

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@suzysemporium   The answer was right in front of them and they failed ... The Active list has a Shipping column, they could have modified the info that it is based on from the Listing tool and then let the Sorting function group First Class items ... this is 2023, it is NOT Rocket Science, it is simply programming and that is where they failed. 

[mr_lincoln]

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@allthingssurplus wrote:

That is exactly what I said and yes eBay has failed.

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@allthingssurplus   That is correct, no doubt about it.  There is a Shipping column on the Active list, you can sort it and eBay failed to take advantage of that.   

[norskmediashop]

Just a reminder in case some of you didn't read it, ebay issued a statement in this thread on friday afternoon:

Hey everyone, as this situation continues to evolve and new information comes available, I have a quick update!  We are no longer referring to a deadline of August 9th!  While there is no hard deadline in place at this point in time, we want to stress to everyone the line right after that in the announcement that states:

"We realize this may take longer for some sellers and we will continue to support First-Class on existing listings for a longer period of time. We will update you as more information becomes available."

so this is not over, and I think were going to see more come of it. 

[mn467462]

Why do sellers refer to themselves as we? It's weird.