international selling

[dbbooks]

I think I have followed the directions on site for selling overseas, yet my items aren’t being seen overseas.

For example my item:  米斗理の学校 - Japanese cookbook - sc (371506906898) does not show when I search on ebay.co.jp

Can you tell me why please?

[dazzledayz]

It could be your postage settings or it could just be that you were checking during one of your blackout periods.

You may have to ring ebay and get them to have a look at the listing in question but you may be no wiser afterwards.

You're being quite brave posting O/S with eBay charging fees on 100% of international freight.

(Yanks only pay postage fees on their domestic rate)

I suppose you are aslo aware that unless you track you are exposed to the late shipping metric?

On your sales numbers one item late will virtually close you down.

[digupatin]

It's Friday, when the eBay eggspurts find things that are working OK and fix them until they break.

[lyndal1838]

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@digupatin wrote:

It's Friday, when the eBay eggspurts find things that are working OK and fix them until they break.

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Not really fair...ebay has always done maintenance on Friday afternoon/evening.   The gremlins only play for a few hours and then go back in their cave until next Friday

[dazzledayz]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

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@digupatin wrote:

It's Friday, when the eBay eggspurts find things that are working OK and fix them until they break.

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Not really fair...ebay has always done maintenance on Friday afternoon/evening.   The gremlins only play for a few hours and then go back in their cave until next Friday

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lyndal that's quite apart from the times they are still trying to undo the damage well into the next week.

It all seems to depend on what part of the site they are having a fiddle with.

Sometimes it causes only slight inconvenience but on other occasions they have brought down the whole show (I'm talking worldwide here).

Weekly maintenance updates remind me of a game of Russian Roulette!

[dbbooks]

I finally got through ebay's ridiculous contact us if you can click the greyed out buttons that are meant to stop you contacting us. I had to go thru the make a suggestion page.  I could make a few bl**dy suggestion about their time-wasting runarounds.

Anyway, I was told that I was right, I couldn't be seen o'seas so report back if it happened again because they didn't know why.

Appqarently, it shouldn't  be for more than 24hrs until it sorted itself.  That's good, I said, mines be listed for 6 days already.

Oh!

Your other comment about postage o'seas, - I don't like itany more than anyone, but most o'seas buyers only buy the small stuff (cds etc) so postage isn't too much.  Nobody can afford to pay postage on a 2kg tome.

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I suppose you are aslo aware that unless you track you are exposed to the late shipping metric?

On your sales numbers one item late will virtually close you down.>

No, I'm not aware.  Please explain!

db

[*tippy*toes*]

When buyers leave feedback, if there is no tracking, they will have a question to answer. The question asks if the item arrived within the estimate. If they click no, then you get a defect. Even if you know it did arrive within the estimate, because they've left feedback or sent you a message, they can and do still click no and you pay for it. By having tracking and posting within your stated handling time, it insulates you against that defect. Tracked items also don't show the question when buyers leave feedback.

[padi*0409]

Slightly off-topic Tippy, but with the 24hrs for items to show up for newish sellers I suspect that when searching in saved searches on newly listed items, the sellers items that have been listed on a certain date they will likely not show up in the timeframe that I'm looking at. - I do mine every 2-3 days.

In other words if say they list on the 1st and eBay doesn't show the listing until the 2nd, that listing will likely be in my previous search and thus not show at all in my latest search period.

Not a biggie if the search doesn't have too many listings in it since I'm likely to spot it, but for categories with 1000+ listings there's no way I'm going to troll through the previous period's search again. 

Not sure if that's the way it works now, but I know that it used to be that way. Thus the seller effectively loses a day on their listing and is likely to lose exposure for buyers as the listing is effectively hidden from them on the newly listed searches.

I'm not even going to go into the wonderful "best match" parameters for listings..........................grrrr.

[dbbooks]

Thanks for that.