topic Re: seller going away for a week in Selling

seller going away for a week

hannu2004 — Thu, 07 May 2015 02:00:57 GMT

What do you do when you go away for a week and cannot post anything during that time?

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joethenuts — Thu, 07 May 2015 02:12:19 GMT

its called relaxing, only joking or am i.. just put your goods on holiday mode. thats if its a store

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dylan11235813 — Thu, 07 May 2015 02:40:03 GMT

With the holiday settings I think there is the option to hide your listings completely, or keep them active and a message is sent to buyers and a little note above the listings.

I would be incline to hide the listings completely as buyers do not seem to read anything and blame the seller.

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*sparklz* — Thu, 07 May 2015 03:37:04 GMT

As yours is not a store and you have active listings you need to end the listings and relist once you return.

You can keep them active but risk neg feedback and disputes when the buyers do not get the items in the time frame ebay say it should arrive.

Re: seller going away for a week

dylan11235813 — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:10:36 GMT

Can you set the quantity to zero for each listing for non stores and keep them active as I can (I have a store though)

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dylan11235813 — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:13:52 GMT

I think there is a setting in the site preferences to allow for zero quantity listings that don't just end.

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hannu2004 — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:34:25 GMT

Dylan's suggestion to take the items off list sounds reasonable, I agree that people do not read notes.

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saarzi — Thu, 07 May 2015 06:22:22 GMT

I go away a lot and just put holiday mode on. When someone purchases something I email them and say something like....

"as per the note in the listing, im away til blah blah your item wont be posted til blah blah. If you have purchased in error and this delay is too long for you please let me know as I am happy to cancel the sale during this time"

Never had an issue (and never had to cancel a sale).

Re: seller going away for a week

hannu2004 — Thu, 07 May 2015 06:35:25 GMT

Sounds good too gtx305 but i am not going to be able to get online, I will be in **bleep**box rally from Canberra to Townsville via Birdsville, no internet there.

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northern_4x4 — Thu, 07 May 2015 09:45:59 GMT

@dylan11235813 wrote:
With the holiday settings I think there is the option to hide your listings completely, or keep them active and a message is sent to buyers and a little note above the listings.

I would be incline to hide the listings completely as buyers do not seem to read anything and blame the seller.

Oh wow! I though I was the only one with this issue. Seems there is others. 😉

Re: seller going away for a week

donnashuggy — Thu, 07 May 2015 10:16:08 GMT

@hannu2004 wrote:
What do you do when you go away for a week and cannot post anything during that time?

H

Plan ahead, here is one option:

Re: seller going away for a week

ourphonecase — Thu, 07 May 2015 11:41:31 GMT

I put my store on holiday mode for a while.. came back and my search ranking took a dive and lost sales by 80% or so,... I was contemplating wheather putting holiday mode on but with items up but I'm glad I remvoed listings even if I lost a fair chunk of sales.. other wise eBay would probably banned me for excessive reds on my account.

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i-love-my-sheep — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:13:04 GMT

As far as I know, Holiday Mode and setting your listings to a 0 quantity and keeping them active is only for stores. If the OP doesn't have a store and items still have free relistings left, and you don't want to end them all, what I'd do is, increase the price to an unsaleble amount so no-one will buy them. Then when you get back, drop the prices back to what they are now.

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hannu2004 — Fri, 08 May 2015 03:04:10 GMT

I tried to END all items but ebay won't let that happen because "they are auction style"... BRAVO ebay, bloody off course they are. I can END each item idividually and wasting my time on nonsense. What is the point ebay?