Location glitch.

[bridiestreasures4680]

Hi, I have had two buyers email me to say why don't I post to their location, one is in Qld and one is in Vic. I post to Australia only and have never had issues like this, can anyone shed some light on this for me please. I wonder if this is why my sales have been extremely slow the last couple of days. Thanks.

[2*much*cute*stuff]

The real one, with the blue tick.

[5kazam]

Beginning to wonder how clever this Technical Team are - each an every week there seems to be another glitch in the site.  Quite often things that weren't 'broke' suddenly are.  Newly implemented 'enhancements' to the site appear to then interfere with something else that was in perfect working order before the enhancements.

Why on earth can't the Technical Team play with all these things 'off site' and get them perfected before subjecting the paying customers to have to attempt to deal with them.

eBay owes all sellers heaps of free listings once this little debacle is sorted - plus more for the outage.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I think this last week has been the worst week for ages with glitches and what not. So many people are having issues with things, yet they feel the need to keep tinkering with things.

[twyngwyn]

[padi*0409]

And the eBay techs seem to be the masters at doing that twyngwyn...................grrrrrr.............

[ringinthedingding]

I had these exact same problems with buyer blocks a month or two back and had numerous buyers contact me and ask why I don't post to their location in Australia, my first thought was that they were blocked due to my "buyer requirements" but after a little investigation realised that was not the problem.

I fixed the problem by creating a new listing and letting the buyer know of its existence and welcomed them to try again. They were able to purchase then but I couldn't help but wonder at how many sales and buyers I had missed out on.

I am not a business and only have a tiny inventory of cheapy older items I no longer want so slow sales don't worry me too much. I admit that I do like making a sale here and there and sell very well when I compare my efforts to others so really am not complaining. But one of the major benefits for me selling online is that I like to keep my finger on the pulse of the economy so to speak so as to gauge the state of the nation etc. If I was a pro seller that relies on ebay for sales (as I did once upon a time) I would have been very upset but have learned not to trust ebay for anything so precious as my financial welfare due to their ever changing wobbly tilting playfield run by a mysterious secret computer algorithm which can be tweaked at will by invisible account managers that rewards and punishes as it apparently see fit or not.

I just can't be bothered contacting ebay support or wasting too much time with ebay problems these days as there are quite a few. Eg I just decided to abandon Turbo Lister due to all the retained artefacts and other problems (that I couldn't be bothers explaining as am basically wasting my breathe as there are many many logic errors in Turbo-Lister and they have been there for years eg. Lbs is actually Kilograms in postage column of the front sheet but has been like that forever so why bother reporting it as obviously a company that makes Billions in profit should be able to make a rather elegant piece of software all on their own .. anything less is complete BS) and going off on a tangent here (and it laughable so I mention this) lately according to ebay there is apparently something wrong with every single item I list on ebay, either the picture or the item specifics but have no idea what they are on as my pictures are massive and I use item specifics wherever I feel they may help so am guessing ebay are somehow trying to lay blame on me for slow sales but I really don't let it worry me and just put it down to some kind of narcissistic marketing **bleep** as is the only thing that makes sense as realise that ebay marketing department is in all probability that I can fathom run by some kind of pathological liar and this is the kinda communication I expect from them these days.

Lets hope somehow ebay get their act together but if they implode that is okay too as will just go to the other site and settle for even slower sales. Donohue gave a speech a few years back about successful ebay sellers being forced to settle for less and excitedly explained how ebay was embarking on a course of disruptive innovation. I imagine this was all done so as to fudge some numbers to bluff the shareholders etc etc.

You may do well to copy this rant of you care to refer to again at a later date as expect it will be trounced upon and deleted fairly quickly.

I apologise to the ebay apologists if I have offended your sensibilities but am just speaking the truth so to the apologists; please start to realise that there may actually be something seriously wrong with ebay management and the way that their website development is financed and rolled out. eg If it isn't in the cap-ex we can't finance it now kinda twaddle. I have no idea who is personally to blame for this chaotic mess but can imagine it is a complete feeding frenzy in the board rooms and that Donohue is just a Yes man who does their bidding but really have no idea who is who in that zoo.

I used to work in a high tech environment as an Internet Developer and project co-ordinator for a very large multi national company so think I have a clue that something is very very wrong with ebay at this moment in time and knew immediately when I first saw the "don't sell to this or that location problem" it was a rather messy database conflict and kinda thought that when these bugs work their way through the system that they will destabilise the entire website and perhaps cause it to crash completely or that the website will need to be taken down whilst a database merge takes place etc etc, well all that happened a week or so back and the official excuse was that the internet is running out of space .. yep its over folks; the internet has run out of space, go back to your stone tools and steam engines.

I imagine that at this exact moment there is a very small handful of developers working overtime trying to hold the website together with sticky tape and fencing wire whilst the accountant works out some kind of temporary dodgy near fraudulent non existent internal external client company tax dodge to dazzle the CEO with so as to get the next cap-ex budget approved to fix "The Problem" so long as the new company cars come with those fancy low profile tyres etc etc.

The fact the same problem is still occurring months later speaks volumes. I expect that sooner or later ebay will just do a merger deal and maybe close their enterprise website and leave the actual development to their new acquisition/merger and to that end am thinking maybe that ebay will buy a substantial stake in Ali Baba or Amazon or some other and then close the ebay auctions sites so as to reduce competition for their new partner. That is the normal way that backsliding monopoly practices corprats operate. I have seen some of what goes on in some of the conference rooms of a major corporation and it really looks like criminal activity and fraud to me so imagine every corporation is run in the same manner and that what goes on in the board-rooms stays in the board-rooms and would be off the Richter Scale. Anyway I am sure most all corporation’s massive legal teams could sidewinder any court of law on the planet that what they do is not criminal activity; just highly immoral with massive memory lapses bordering on Alzheimers is all.

Save yourself!! Just give up before it does your head in. Thats what I did but too too late for me now. The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I hope you got a laugh out of all this.

[twyngwyn]

I just wish they'd make announcements on what they are playing with daily...at least we would know

[ringinthedingding]

"I just wish they'd make announcements on what they are playing with daily...at least we would know"

Playing with their willys

[curraone]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

I haven't had anyone blocked from bidding since our 'friend' tried to be malicious to a few sellers at the start of the month, but I just noticed that I am having issues with some of my listings with postage, not showing postage. The free postage ones seem to be OK, but a few with postage are saying postage can't be calculated.

I had a new buyer pay immediately when they won a free postage item, but I thought it strange that a repeat buyer hadn't paid straight away when he always has in the past.....without me sending an invoice. If he's interested in multiple items he messages me and lets me know, but I hadn't heard from him. Just checked the listing and sure enough it's got that 'will post to Australia' message and when you click on the postage tab it says to enter a valid postcode because postage can't be calculated.

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I can't help it - I have to repeat the garbage I got from live chat .....

Kyle Vincent So

It seems this is caused by the postage amount since the site does not offer any postage cost amounting to $2.10 only.

curraone

I'm sorry that is not a reasonable answer - if the item is a large letter, obviously the postage can be $1.40; $2.10; or $3.50

Kyle Vincent So

Sorry but the eBay site does not offer any letter postage options.

Kyle Vincent So

Basically the postage section will show the said error if there is something wrong with the postage option used and it did not meet its minimum requirement.

curraone

That's right, that's why we choose "Standard Delivery" with the option to put in your own postage

curraone

It is not calculated postage, it is flat rate postage

Kyle Vincent So

If you can check, you will not get the said error if you provide a postage cost of $7

Kyle Vincent So

The system or the eBay site do not have any records that can charge the postage for only $2.

[cq_tech]

Until this situation is resolved (assuming that it will be) perhaps you could list those particular items which are sent at the $2.10 large letter rate as "Free Postage" and add a handling fee of $2.10 instead? That way, at least nobody would be blocked and the end result would still be the same.