{"id":11863,"date":"2011-06-17T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T18:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=11863"},"modified":"2021-09-14T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:00:24","slug":"dont-forget-to-ship-your-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/dont-forget-to-ship-your-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t forget to ship your item"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t forget to ship your item! Based on the handling time you selected, your buyer is expecting you to ship this within 3 business day(s) from when you received payment.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure buyer satisfaction, and protect your feedback score by following the steps below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>eBay started mentioning that a few weeks ago.  Sellers can specify their intended handling time and I&#8217;ve had mine set at 2 days for as long as you could do that.  I usually ship in one day but I don&#8217;t want to promise to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got stuck for some reason and let one slip past the two days and blip!  a little note from eBay-don&#8217;t forget to ship your item.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t like them looking over my shoulder, I changed my handling time to three days.<\/p>\n<p>Along comes the Canadian postal strike.  I ask a Canadian customer if I should ship their purchase into the strike, they say no, wait, let&#8217;s see what happens here.<\/p>\n<p>Blip!  Don&#8217;t forget to ship your item&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to forget-the buyers punish that.  My &#8220;stars&#8221; say I don&#8217;t forget.   But now eBay is hands-on about it.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, fine.  If eBay monitors handling time anyway, do this-take away the distraction of making the buyers rate that star.  If it goes out on time, five stars.  If it doesn&#8217;t, some formula.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes those things anyway-they&#8217;re arbitrary, without definition, and annoying to both users.  Only eBay cares about them.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- WordPress Posts --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"6038161031\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Large Rectangle --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"1055474237\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t forget to ship your item! Based on the handling time you selected, your buyer is expecting you to ship this within 3 business day(s) from when you received payment. Ensure buyer satisfaction, and protect your feedback score by following the steps below. eBay started mentioning that a few weeks ago. Sellers can specify their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/dont-forget-to-ship-your-item\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t forget to ship your item<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3460],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-ebay-handling-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89441,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions\/89441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}