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[MajesticVelcro]

Dusted off my extremely old and underused account to comment on the latest podcast re: 35 business days for returns.

It’s possible that the rep you were talking to was confused/wrong! I made this Reddit post a few weeks ago with my experience. The short of it is that there is (or was, at the time of my original post) a glitch in the system where the eBay auto-generated label did not show up on the seller’s end in the system. As such, to the rep, it made the return look like a case where you provided your own label, in which case the 35 business day rule applies. However, eBay auto-generated labels only have 15 business days from when the label was provided.

The rep said I was the one to bring this glitch to their attention, and that there is a way around it but the rep will probably need to talk to their leadership about the workaround. PITA to be sure, and the 35 business day rule is crazy regardless, but as long as you’re using eBay generated labels and want to put in the time to try to explain this to whoever answers your Facebook message, you can probably get the case closed right now.

[MajesticVelcro]

I was just working on my 2019 goals when I listened to the podcast and heard about this thread. Convenient timing!

Here are my goals:

…read 52 books
…gross $100k on my eBay store
…hike once a week in the winter, bring it up to three times a week once the mountains start to thaw

I like my goals to be quantified so I haven’t quite figured out how to quantify this one yet, but I’m hoping to go on car camping sourcing trips. After years of working towards it, this year I finally moved west. My long term goal is to have a subsistence farm in the mountains, but in order to determine exactly where in the mountains I should buy land, I have to see more of them. The working idea at this time is to put a cargo carrier on my SUV, pick a direction, and go. Explore my surroundings, go to as many thrift stores/flea markets/garage sales as possible, car camp at night on BLM/national forest land, maybe do some hiking and head home when the cargo bin is full. I think it’d be a fun way to get inventory while also learning the lay of the land.

[MajesticVelcro]

I didn’t consider that business policies might have prevented this issue! I’ve been dragging my feet on setting them up – change is hard. I’m moving cross-country in two months so I’m selling down as much as I can and will probably be ditching a lot of what’s left, so I’ll probably wait on business policies until I’m down to a really low listing count.

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