A few thoughts....
Why would any seller choose a door to door guarantee IF there is no benefit? It will cost more for a late shipment then offering a handling time guarantee where eBay pays for late deliveries? I have to believe this WILL affect ranking in other searches, they have never divulge what exactly goes into placement. what am I missing? There has to be some advantage to willing pay for late shipments when you could have eBay pay for them.
IF you fail on your guarantee you will become below standard and fall out of the program, what if you opt into handling time guarantee and regularly miss the delivery estimate provided by ebay? It has to affect you in some way, ebay isn't going to keep paying out because your items are late even though they provide the estimated guarantee time.
It will be interesting what delivery estimate eBay assigns an item when they are on the hook, I bet they won't be telling my customers the item will arrive in 3 days in December like they have in the past.
Different times of the year have different delivery times, something that is easily delivered in 2 days in March may take a week in December.
Isn't it strange about communication methods chosen by ebay reps? I don't understand why they drop these obvious bombs, let posted responses blow up to 300 then shut down the thread.
Why did I have to read through almost 500 responses to get the same clarification that I and many needed - that could have been answered as soon as those concerns made themselves blatantly apparent from seller posts? They could have answered my questions (and many) with two simple sentences posted right away.
That said, bottom line on what I understand - is that this is a good thing for small sellers, not a bad thing but only in respect to having the split program offered. It would be insane to opt into door to door and the weekly chat responses suggested 3 times this was not geared to anything but the largest sellers here. I get that will reward the mega sellers that compete against each other.
As to the 1st part we small sellers can opt into - IMO you have to look at what happens to you now if you ship on time but thru carrier fault... WE ARE held accountable. If I read correctly, this option to guarantee tracking upload within our stated handling time will be nothing but a plus from what we have now.... Since this option is open to all sellers, not just TRS, and since we can still state 2,3,4 day handling time - and since if it arrives late, the buyer is blocked from leaving neg feedback as to lateness..... what's bad about that?
If I'm not mistaken on my understanding on this, I will opt in for the guarantee on getting that item uploaded within handling time - IF ONLY TO BLOCK those neg feedbacks due to no fault of my own of being able to show up on my feedback. Sounds like if you don't opt in, buyer will still be able to trash your feedback by leaving a late comment.
Opting in, for this part only - ebay makes it right if the seller crabs is a benefit for us, lol another oddidity.... under answers by the blues, not one pointed this out as a seller benefit.....
