eBay

tealt · ‎11-09-2017

I sold something today, Thursday (Nov 9th).

Since I read this board every day, I know that:

a) eBay site maintainers mishandled the switch back to Standard Time that happened last Sunday, pushing "ship by" one (mistaken) further day forward.

b) eBay site maintainers were unable to search on the web and discover that although Friday (10th) is a federal holiday, the USPS holiday is Saturday (11th).

I have 1 day handling.

My sale today has the notation "ship by Tuesday, November 14th". Uh huh.

No way am I going to wait for Tuesday and get a Late Shipment/Tracking Uploaded ding on my account metrics. No way, no call to CS and be told that "if it doesn't affect your TSR+ status, we won't do anything".

When I clicked on Print Shipping Label next to the transaction (I use My eBay), the resultant screen had no option to print a label on the 10th (tomorrow). This has been reported on several threads on this board.

However...if I use the bulk label printer ("print 50 or more labels..."), and proceed to the Review and Pay screen, I can choose to print a label for Friday, the 10th. Yea!

This doesn't solve the problem of the glitch created by the DT to ST switch, but at least I can print a label for tomorrow and not have to stand in line at the PO and pay retail price.

southern*sweet*tea · ‎11-09-2017

Did you try printing from Paypal?

Thankfully stamps.com gets it right every time!

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

cinjamanbooks · ‎11-09-2017

Same here. Won't let me print a label for tomorrow. It costs me more to ship via USPS out of paypal so I would prefer to print here... I can still print a label that shows shipment Saturday and drop it off tomorrow right?

dtexley3 · ‎11-09-2017

as noted above, use bulk printing, you can select the single listing and select print labels from the header drop down.

Member of the Grumpy Old Man crew

pvcliff · ‎11-09-2017

I semi regularly print a label with the "wrong date" on it and never have had an issue, for instance printing for the next day and then realizing the mailman is running late so I put it out in "today's" Mail since he hadn't been here yet. So I would tend to just print Saturday's label and put it out for pickup Friday.

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nowthatsjustducky · ‎11-09-2017

Is printing an eBay one of those things that is similar to downloading an internet onto floppy disk? 😄

Anyway, so does this mean the post offices are closed tomorrow? I thought the drinking holiday weekends were done so that the Feds always get that Monday off instead of just whenever the day falls.

If no shipping tomorrow though, then that is good, because we have an out of town appointment tomorrow over in Ontario, which will turn into a thrifting and grocery run in Nampa afterward, and will likely be an all day affair anyway.

Guess that means I better get off my booty and start getting the things that just sold an hour ago packaged up. Then may as well wait until around 4:20 to go do my happy walk to the post office, to allow time for more stuff to sell.

If it works, sell it. If it works well, sell it for more. If it doesn't work, quadruple the price and sell it as an antique.

-- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #80

southern*sweet*tea · ‎11-09-2017

Ducky, the PO is open tomorrow. They are closed Saturday.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

nowthatsjustducky · ‎11-09-2017

Ours is always closed on Saturday anyway.

If it works, sell it. If it works well, sell it for more. If it doesn't work, quadruple the price and sell it as an antique.

-- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #80

southern*sweet*tea · ‎11-09-2017

@nowthatsjustducky wrote:
Ours is always closed on Saturday anyway.

Ours might as well be, they're open from 8.30 until 10 lol

There will be no mail delivery this Saturday. I suppose specifics count

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

sam9876 · ‎11-09-2017

Ummmmm... ship today.

nowthatsjustducky · ‎11-09-2017

@sam9876 wrote:
Ummmmm... ship today.

And here I was expecting you to chime in and rub it in that you have a PO that operates 24/7. Are you losing your edge? 🙂

If it works, sell it. If it works well, sell it for more. If it doesn't work, quadruple the price and sell it as an antique.

-- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #80

sam9876 · ‎11-09-2017

I guess so.

berserkerplanet · ‎11-09-2017

As I pointed out in another thread, using Saturday's date MIGHT be the worst option since it isn't a valid ship date to USPS* (Postal Holiday). If the computers were to flag anything, it might be that - they could melt down when an acceptance scan for a label printed on a date that doesn't exist for USPS is encountered.

I'm going with Monday as a label date if it comes up.

*I'm assuming that if you go to USPS.com or PayPal or anywhere else that doesn't have this screwed up that Saturday is not an option any of those places. Too lazy to verify, but betting is the case.

pvcliff · ‎11-09-2017

Listed some unicorn ornaments about two hours ago and both listings got snapped up by the same buyer. Went to print a label just now and it offered me a label dated tomorrow. Someone must have made the fix.

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