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| Simon:
--- Quote from: peter-h on October 22, 2020, 09:05:13 am ---"Yes everywhere does 2Kg but after that it gets tricky" Indeed; then it is called AIR PARCEL and can be quite an exercise. It is also expensive. AP used to be cheap but today it is perhaps 50% of DHL, and with the discounts which DHL etc offer to corporate users (more than 50% off) nobody uses it anymore. I have also seen AP taking a month... At work we split say a 3kg airmail shipment into two packets; it is still much cheaper than a courier. --- End quote --- Yes i have often split stuff up or been a bit smarter about the packing like this time to achieve the same robustness but at under 2kg, air bubbles are lighter than shredded paper. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: @rt on October 22, 2020, 10:20:15 am ---I was a little shocked over my September invoice having sold nothing. Someone from another country purchased a listing where I didn’t tick the option to offer international postage, plus they didn’t pay in 4 days, so I cancelled it. Someone else purchased a listing, and didn’t pay in more than 4 days, so I cancelled it. It looks like I was charged for both of these sales. I promptly cancelled all remaining listings, and seriously considering viability of the platform in my case. --- End quote --- You can call support and get them to refund those. They are not going to do it automatically.... |
| Simon:
ebay is ultimately full of bugs and without fixing the existing ones they continue to make half hearted buggy attempts to "improve" their site. For buyers it looks great, but for a seller it's a mash up of at least two different attempts at creating system usable by sellers. Last time I tried clicking on the link in an email to say I'd made a sale and would I like to buy the postage I just went round and round in circles being asked for my login again and again as I was passed between two different existing systems and their current in progress attempt. This is one reason I signed up to drop and go, i stick an address label on and just go and dump it on the local post office counter and walk out. Sometimes he manages to stop me before I dissapere to give me the last weeks worth of receipts. |
| Jan Audio:
Ebay buggy ?, aliexpress, that is really buggy. |
| CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: Simon on October 22, 2020, 02:40:19 pm ---ebay is ultimately full of bugs and without fixing the existing ones they continue to make half hearted buggy attempts to "improve" their site. For buyers it looks great, but for a seller it's a mash up of at least two different attempts at creating system usable by sellers. Last time I tried clicking on the link in an email to say I'd made a sale and would I like to buy the postage I just went round and round in circles being asked for my login again and again as I was passed between two different existing systems and their current in progress attempt. This is one reason I signed up to drop and go, i stick an address label on and just go and dump it on the local post office counter and walk out. Sometimes he manages to stop me before I dissapere to give me the last weeks worth of receipts. --- End quote --- It seems as if eBay uses different software in different parts of the world. Probably necessary to comply with local differences in taxation and other rules. And it also seems as if it may be more broken in England than it is here in the USA. I am not a great fan of the eBay user interface here on either buyer or seller side, but don't seem to have run into the degree of difficulty you have encountered. |
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