I Don't See My HANDLING TIME on My Listings

[happydaysantiques]

Hello, everyone.  There has been considerable discussion about 1-day handling times recently.  For this reason, when I prepared my listings, I made sure they all correctly showed my 2-day handling time on the Sell form.

I don't see ANY handling time now that they have launched.  Are you folks seeing them on your listings?  And if not, how do we KNOW what handling time is being used?  (Am I being paranoid?)

[fab_finds4u]

It's not shown but your handling time is added to the USPS expected delivery date.   From your zip code to mine USPS calculates a package shipped today would arrive Oct 10.  eBay states Oct 11, which is 1 day handling added to Oct 10.  

[nobody*s_perfect]

eBay's official policy is to show a handling time only for longer handling times (either 4 or 5 days or more).  For shorter handling times, eBay wants buyers to rely on the estimated delivery date.

If you want to know what handling time is being used, go to the listing and click on revise; or on  "Sell similar" to bring up a duplicate of the listing form.

[pink.fish.rule]

Yes, the ETA they decide based on your "usual" shipping time.

[happydaysantiques]

Thanks so much, everyone.

[earlyant-77]

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@fab_finds4u wrote:

It's not shown but your handling time is added to the USPS expected delivery date.   From your zip code to mine USPS calculates a package shipped today would arrive Oct 10.  eBay states Oct 11, which is 1 day handling added to Oct 10.  

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Just wanted to correct that to 'your AVERAGE handling time'.

So if you have a 3 day handling time, but usually ship in 1 day, that 3 day handing time isn't used. They would use 1 or 2 days.

[mam98031]

I always liked that stated on my listings too, but Ebay removed it without notice a very long time ago.

[happydaysantiques]

Thank you for the clarification, mam.  I thought that was the case, but then panicked when I recently saw a listing that showed the seller's handling time (and my listings don't).  In retrospect, I'll bet that other seller's listing was old.  Some sellers have to relist an item for a long time before it sells.

[mam98031]

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@happydaysantiques wrote:

Thank you for the clarification, mam.  I thought that was the case, but then panicked when I recently saw a listing that showed the seller's handling time (and my listings don't).  In retrospect, I'll bet that other seller's listing was old.  Some sellers have to relist an item for a long time before it sells.

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Doubtful.  Ebay made this change years ago.  If you saw a handling time on a listing, then the seller had an extended handling time.  Those they do state.

[inhawaii]

It no longer shows to the public.

If you want to see it, click on "revise" your listing.

Scroll down.  It will be about 3/4 way down.

[bigdeals.etc]

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@mam98031 wrote:

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@happydaysantiques wrote:

Thank you for the clarification, mam.  I thought that was the case, but then panicked when I recently saw a listing that showed the seller's handling time (and my listings don't).  In retrospect, I'll bet that other seller's listing was old.  Some sellers have to relist an item for a long time before it sells.

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Doubtful.  Ebay made this change years ago.  If you saw a handling time on a listing, then the seller had an extended handling time.  Those they do state.

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Yes I suspect ebay did this deliberately without notice to prepare themselves to implement this dumb functionality here in message 71 by Trinton https://community.ebay.com/t5/Weekly-Chat-with-eBay-Staff/Community-Chat-Jan-16-from-1-00-pm-PT-Gene...

They don't want to show the seller's handling time setting on the listing so they can play around with it themselves and basically "veto" your handling time if they want to.