eBay

suzysemporium · ‎04-17-2024

Just received an email from Ebay stating that on May 15 they are going to change shipping settings for everyone who uses calculated shipping. They have decided that it is our best interest to offer our shipping discounts to our buyers directly. This will attract more buyers to your listings. You have to use Ebay labels though.

That option has been there for a long time already. I thought about doing it previously, but decided against it.

Hold on dear overlords. Why couldn't you just treat all sellers as if they have some sense. Send an improve your listing message instead. I get those to become a top rated plus by having 1 day handling time. A message with a link to the setting would have been much nicer. Maybe not every one knows there is a setting or where to find that setting to make the change if we so desire. Instead our dear overlords decided to give an opt out option, or you could change the settings back later on.

I opted out. I figure there are sellers who already have that option turned on. Buyers can choose, and wonder why my shipping is higher. If they want what I have to sell, and the overall cost is reasonable they will buy from me. I guess I should be grateful that our dear overlords decided to include that option even though they seemed to want to hide the link. It is in the 3rd paragraph down within the first sentence click "let us know here".

I remember two of the reasons. 1) You use shipping to compensate for handling and shipping fees. 2) You do not always use ebay labels. 3) I forget the the third reason, and can not go back to see it 4) other

I'm sure they are collecting data on sellers shipping habits with this opt out form also.

sextons-sweet-deals · ‎04-20-2024

I guess I'm just a little baffled on this issue. Just seems to keep popping up every few months.

I opted out last year. Then maybe in February of this year, I had a purchase from a buyer. The shipping label cost did not match the size, weight, and dims for the destination. I was like there is no way this package can even be shipped for this price.

At that same time period, I read a post of a seller having to go back in and correct "re-select again" their selling fee policy.

Reading this issue again is just frustrating.

My understanding is that the seller gets a discount on the label because they are using their own ink, paper, and tape to secure that label to package ($$) in which saves the USPS ink, sticky label paper, and clerk labor cost time processing each package.

It almost sound like eBay will enforce this reading some of the comments, but I'm not sold on that just yet. If they do, then they need to do something about their quarterly shipping supply discount shipping supplies prices.

carlmarxx · ‎04-20-2024

I'm glad I'm not the only one that is baffled . I believe eBay shouldn't be butting in on sellers over shipping ,since eBay isn't made up of full time retailers ,since the business model is set up for just a venue for second market and part time hobby seller . It is too bad that all Ceo's after Meg W. couldn't see past the leaves on the tree's ,That eBay was never meant to be a controlled market online site with any manage payments or even dealing in new luxury goods . Ebay has a advantage over the other online sites that it has auctions and Motor's section and their Seo's needed to wake up to that and quite tryig to make site a cheap copy of amazon.

kayomi@ebay · ‎04-22-2024

@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:

kayomi@ebay wrote:

@bossesale77 wrote:

I just tried opting out on my multiple eBay accounts (each one has a different email address/log-in) and after opting out on the first account I was told that the "survey" could only be taken once a day when I tried opting out on the other accounts. Does this mean that when I opted out on the first account that all my accounts were opted out or that I can only opt out on one account per day? If it's the latter then that's just idiotic.

Hi @bossesale77 , thank you for flagging this issue. When you opt out, you are opting out for just the account you are logged into when you take the survey. The survey has now been updated to accept more than one response per day. Please retry opting out and let us know if you have further issues.

kayomi@ebay

Hello Kayomi, Can you confirm if this will apply to ca sellers too. There has been nothing in the way of messaging or a "survey" on the Canadian platform about being opted in and then needing to manually opt out. Discovered this discussion entirely by accident. With the number of current issues with eBay labels on ca this would be the last thing that we would need to figure out by accident.

Thanks,

-Lotzofuniquegoodies

Hi @lotzofuniquegoodies , to my knowledge, an email was sent to the impacted Canadian sellers. If you did not receive this email, then you will not be impacted by this!

a_c_green · ‎04-22-2024

@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
My understanding is that the seller gets a discount on the label because they are using their own ink, paper, and tape to secure that label to package ($$) in which saves the USPS ink, sticky label paper, and clerk labor cost time processing each package.

Sure... especially the labor time and cost at the front desk, as there is no labeling and no financial transaction to be done; that part was already completed on-line by you when you bought the label. I had three packages scanned in this morning, a brief chat about the weather, and I was still done in less than sixty seconds.

Imagine slogging through the process of buying postage at the counter (and paying more for that): the clerk has to type in the shipping address on his Point of Sale terminal, verify it with the customer ("Oh, isn't that the right ZIP code? Maybe I have the wrong street address..." 🙄), weigh and measure the package, print up a label, apply the label, scan its bar code for Acceptance... then turn to the next package, do that all over again, etc. No wonder the line is out the door at Christmastime...

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎04-22-2024

kayomi@ebay wrote:
@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
kayomi@ebay wrote:
@bossesale77 wrote:
I just tried opting out on my multiple eBay accounts (each one has a different email address/log-in) and after opting out on the first account I was told that the "survey" could only be taken once a day when I tried opting out on the other accounts. Does this mean that when I opted out on the first account that all my accounts were opted out or that I can only opt out on one account per day? If it's the latter then that's just idiotic.
Hi @bossesale77 , thank you for flagging this issue. When you opt out, you are opting out for just the account you are logged into when you take the survey. The survey has now been updated to accept more than one response per day. Please retry opting out and let us know if you have further issues.
kayomi@ebay

Hello Kayomi, Can you confirm if this will apply to ca sellers too. There has been nothing in the way of messaging or a "survey" on the Canadian platform about being opted in and then needing to manually opt out. Discovered this discussion entirely by accident. With the number of current issues with eBay labels on ca this would be the last thing that we would need to figure out by accident.

Thanks,

-Lotzofuniquegoodies
Hi @lotzofuniquegoodies , to my knowledge, an email was sent to the impacted Canadian sellers. If you did not receive this email, then you will not be impacted by this!

kayomi@ebay

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately eBay Canadian sellers are last to find out what is going on with impending changes and/or the speed they may or may not arrive and be implemented. Many sellers are still dreaming of the day when they too can offer buyers coupons like our US counterparts.

-Lotzofuniquegoodies