What to do with eBay store over Christmas?
What to do with eBay store over Christmas?
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Dr Interceptor

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8,183 posts

227 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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Afternoon all,

Quick bit of advice needed! What do you all do with your eBay stores over Christmas/New Year?

We close down from 24th December, and re-open on the 5th January... so we won't be dispatching any orders during that time.

We're just about to turn from 'Above Standard' to 'Top Rated' too on our next evaluation, so don't want to risk any defects from not dispatching within 24 hours.

Many thanks for any advice...

Jon

shakotan

10,862 posts

227 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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Dr Interceptor said:
Afternoon all,

Quick bit of advice needed! What do you all do with your eBay stores over Christmas/New Year?

We close down from 24th December, and re-open on the 5th January... so we won't be dispatching any orders during that time.

We're just about to turn from 'Above Standard' to 'Top Rated' too on our next evaluation, so don't want to risk any defects from not dispatching within 24 hours.

Many thanks for any advice...

Jon
I see many listings with "The seller is away from X to Y so any goods will not be dispatched until Z" on, so you must be able to set it in your account options.

gregf40

1,114 posts

147 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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I'd stop selling completely.

You can put holiday settings saying you won't post until January - but buyers on eBay have sub 100 IQ's and will still leave you crap feedback because they won't have read the holiday setting note and will expect it to have been posted last Tuesday.

If you want to stay Top Rated you have to stop IMO.

Dr Interceptor

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8,183 posts

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Friday 12th December 2014
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gregf40 said:
I'd stop selling completely.

You can put holiday settings saying you won't post until January - but buyers on eBay have sub 100 IQ's and will still leave you crap feedback because they won't have read the holiday setting note and will expect it to have been posted last Tuesday.

If you want to stay Top Rated you have to stop IMO.
That's what I suspected... shame really as it'd be nice to leave it ticking over.

You can put whatever message you like on the individual product listings, but unless there is an eBay system where they agree to remove any account defects from that period, then we can't risk it.



shakotan

10,862 posts

227 months