How to let bidders know that the items will be posted later due to holidays?

[pinga707077]

I'm going away and my auctions will end when I'm away. I do not want to cancell my active listings. How can I notify bidders that the items will be posted later.

Thank you 🙂 

[*sparklz*]

You need to add it into the listings or change your handling postage times to the amount of time you will be away.

But you would be better to end the listings till you can be there to post as this time of year buyer will not want to wait and many will not read postage delay messages in the listing.

[twyngwyn]

if you don't have a store, the only thing that might help you is to extend your handling time

[kopenhagen5]

With bids, very little can be revised in listings.

If most of your items only attract one bid anyway, better to end the listings now to the highest bidder and post them before you go.

(only 2 listings with bids, then change handling time on others)

[padi*0409]

As others have said, better to end your listings or you could end up with negs on your account, or worse some very low DSRs which could easily limit/curtail your selling on eBay.

[curraone]

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@pinga707077 wrote:

I'm going away and my auctions will end when I'm away. I do not want to cancell my active listings. How can I notify bidders that the items will be posted later.

Thank you 🙂 

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If you do not want to cancel your listings, there are a few things you can do

On the two items where  you have active bids - you can revise the items and add a paragraph at the end in HUGE writing - telling the buyers what days you will be away.e.g.

Please note the seller will be away from 12 Dec to 24 Dec and will be unable to post your item during that time

On the listings which have no bids, you can bulk edit and add the same paragraph but at the top of the description - and also change the handling time to the maximum allowed.

[englishrosegardens]

Unless you extend your handling time to cover the time you'll be away, you could end up with a heap of postage defects and then have your selling restricted.  Is it really worth risking your selling privileges by selling a few cheap items while you're away?

You could reduce the duration on the items without bids so that the auctions end before you go away.  

[ford12ford]

I added similar 11 months ago, and even put in no need to pay till I am back in big bold letters too. Needless to say I was paid straight away for a few items that week, and no one minded waiting but I did get those bad marks from ebay for late posing that I still have today as not yet 12 months up. I am STILL near 5 and incurred a warning from ebay. All items ebay considered I did not post soon enough, those 11 months or so ago, none from customers as I usually post same or next day anyway, and had emailed each buyer at the time. Next time I will add onto the posting time which I did not do, and did not think of, so thanks too for the advice.  

[curraone]

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@pinga707077 wrote:

I'm going away and my auctions will end when I'm away. I do not want to cancell my active listings. How can I notify bidders that the items will be posted later.

Thank you 🙂 

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I should add that for any of your listings that do not have bids, I would definitely end them at least two days before you leave.

It doesn't cost you anything to list - and they will be in your unsold listings ready to re-list when you get back.

[padi*0409]

curraone, the problem there as I see it is that eBay, in effect, gives the buyer 8 days to pay (if the OP has to go down the UPI track or an echeque is utilised) obviously the OP won't want to post until payment is cleared, so there woudn't be time in that 2 day window to sort out payment and post off the items to the buyer.