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This one takes the cake. Received an eBay message this afternoon at 4.12pm advising an Item I ordered has been sent and the Estimated delivery date is Thursday 8th October - MAGIC !! 
I don't usually take any notice of their messages regarding delivery - now I wonder how often my buyers receive messages similar to this & what date will appear when they leave Feedback and are asked, 'Did your item arrive before such & such a date' ?
@digital*ghost wrote:
@mbselections00 wrote:At the end of the day, I'm the one leaving the Feedback - not eBay
Quite a pertinent point, all things considered - the shipping metric does nothing but compoud an eBay-created problem IMHO. I had my fingers crossed that when you went to leave feedback, the date on the question would have been updated appropriately. Disappointed (but not surprised) it wasn't. 😕
@tippy, not answering the question doesn't count against the seller; or it won't when the metric has been fully implemented.
If the buyer answers the question with a 'No', it can, and will if there is no tracking info to show either the seller posted within their handling time, or the item did arrive by eBay's ETA.
Every yes is a 'plus'; every no (with no shipping info to counter it) is a 'minus', and a non-answer isn't counted. So, theoretically every yes counts, because it will help keep the seller's ratio of yes : no within eBay's acceptable range.
Yes, I also thought the date would have been updated, thought it must have been some sort of glitch on the day, but alas no, which is why I thought I'd come back with an up-date. Sad thing is, they actually sent the wrong item 
so I haven't actually left Feedback yet - just wanted to check what date would actually appear.
It doesn't surprise me to see Sellers reaction to the 'delivered by - - - - ' question because we understand the ramifications, pity the majority of buyers probably don't (unless they read the boards)
I don't know if anyone else has this problem but I've noticed that the delivery times are different on the site and the app? Maybe this is because I have a Russian phone (although it's set to AEST, so it shouldn't matter). 
All of the estimates on the app are 2 - 3 days sooner than on the site.
@everard6920 wrote:I don't know if anyone else has this problem but I've noticed that the delivery times are different on the site and the app? Maybe this is because I have a Russian phone (although it's set to AEST, so it shouldn't matter).
All of the estimates on the app are 2 - 3 days sooner than on the site.
Geee, what hope have we got ?? I'm too old fashioned to use the app on the phone, I have once or twice just to see what listings look like, but I hate using my phone for anything other than phone calls & texts (It all looks too small to me, even with my glasses on !) But I'm sure most of the younger eBay users would use their phones, I know my daughter uses her phone for everything including eBay - so that is extremely unfair.
As someone suggested earlier - it's like they are setting us up to fail (or words to that affect)
Likewise here, most of mine go as Large Letters / padded envelopes - perhaps only10% Registered & 1 or 2% Registered International or Express, it would be unrealistic to send everything Registered, and anyway, I'm sure 99.9% of buyers would contact the seller one way or another if they were concerned about the delivery time.
I just cannot see the need for even asking the question, other than creating another opportunity to defect the seller, even though the buyer may have no intention of doing so - like leaving 'Neutral' 3 Stars 
