what is with handling time

[bashort]

One day handling time items that sell today are saying ship by Sat Aug 2? 

[mam98031]

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@richard1rst wrote:

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@bashort wrote:

One day handling time items that sell today are saying ship by Sat Aug 2? 

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I randomly looked at one of your listings and it says estimated delivery Aug 2.

That is really something quite different.

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The Ship by date and the ETA date are two different things.  Both are being reported as wrong by several sellers.  

[mam98031]

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@shepar58 wrote:

Weird, I just had the same thing. I put 3 day handling time (meaning business days) and I just made a sell it said to ship by Sunday. Did not know mail ran on Sunday. lol

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In that case @shepar58 , make sure you check your Site Preferences to make sure you have Saturday and Sunday checked off as NON business days.

[johnrj1226]

The  time zones of the buyer and seller has an impact, along with the time of  day when the payment  was received, will affect the ship by date, along  with the shippers Holidays schedule 

 If  your issue is having to ship on a Saturday.  I always shipped on  i.e. got a  carrier scan or had it  scanned in at or USPS PO before their noon close time in the interest of providing top shelf customer service.  My  buyers  appreciated it..  

The top  dog in this only buying and selling get  stuff deliverd on Sundays too via an agreement with USPS.

[shepar58]

Thank you! I did not know to do that. 

[mam98031]

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@shepar58 wrote:

Thank you! I did not know to do that. 

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@shepar58 

I'm glad I could help.  Let me know if you have any other questions.

[johnrj1226]

You said "I don't need to compete with Amazon."  That is  true but when it comes to buying the big helps influence buyers expectations.  Like a tennis player I like to  serve as many ball as I can from my side of the court as I can from my side of the court - the buyer does makes for a happy seller in my book all day long.  Buyers often have more than 1 choice to buy from in a B & M and/or an online.source - that is what is great about the USA.

[kath.layn]

I believe the issue is Ship By date, not estimated arrival.

[mam98031]

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@kath.layn wrote:

I believe the issue is Ship By date, not estimated arrival.

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It is both.