How the heck do you bulk edit handing time now??

[southern*sweet*tea]

There is no option to bulk edit handling time, only to edit shipping and /or business policies, which I do not use.  Is that not possible anymore?

[blingfling123]

@wastingtime101 

"My one beef (and it's a big one) with biz policies is that handling time is integrated into every single policy. Handling time really needs to be separated out into its own policy for quick and easy bulk editing." 

Please no.   Updating business policies is not that hard, nor does it take a long time. 

I have business policies with different handling times based on carrier and what is being sold. If the handling time were a single field, then I would have to extend out my handling for everything vs a few things.

[wastingtime101]

You might be missing my point @blingfling123.

Handling time should be its own policy just like return, payment and shipping.

So you could create multiple handling time policies - 1 day handling, 3 day, 5 day or whatever you needed.

Then if most of your listings offered 1 day handling, but you needed to extend it to 3 days for some reason - you could do that in the bulk editor with just a couple clicks. And if you had other listings assigned to 30 day handling for preorders, those would be unaffected because they're assigned a different policy.

As it stands now, if you need to change handling on your listings, you have to go into every single shipping policy to change handling which is much more work.

[wastingtime101]

Hey kyle@ebay - thanks for the response. Is there anything you can tell us about why eBay keeps opting sellers in to biz policies when they didn't select it for themselves? Why is this happening and it it intentional or a glitch?

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

You might be missing my point @blingfling123.

Handling time should be its own policy just like return, payment and shipping.  Exactly!

So you could create multiple handling time policies - 1 day handling, 3 day, 5 day or whatever you needed.

Then if most of your listings offered 1 day handling, but you needed to extend it to 3 days for some reason - you could do that in the bulk editor with just a couple clicks. And if you had other listings assigned to 30 day handling for preorders, those would be unaffected because they're assigned a different policy.

As it stands now, if you need to change handling on your listings, you have to go into every single shipping policy to change handling which is much more work.  I don't use shipping or business policies - I never have - and to change my handling time I was presented with 36 pages of shipping policies starting years and years ago that I never created to begin with.    I would have had to go into each one that currently applied and change the time manually.  I have 421 listings right now, who has time for that??

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[kyle@ebay]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

Hey kyle@ebay - thanks for the response. Is there anything you can tell us about why eBay keeps opting sellers in to biz policies when they didn't select it for themselves? Why is this happening and it it intentional or a glitch?

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Hey @wastingtime101 what you're experiencing with being opted in will sometimes happen when other changes or updates are made to a program.  It's not necessarily a glitch, because it is working as designed, but "working as designed" may not always be the same as "working as intended."  We'll be sure to continue passing along feedback to the appropriate teams!

[dhbookds]

kyle@ebay 

Hey @wastingtime101 what you're experiencing with being opted in will sometimes happen when other changes or updates are made to a program.  It's not necessarily a glitch, because it is working as designed, but "working as designed" may not always be the same as "working as intended."  We'll be sure to continue passing along feedback to the appropriate teams!

Kyle, to me, that's just parsing words..........and an obfuscation.........it's a programing ERROR.....  If you call it like it is, we might get it fixed.........