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Pretty much all of my youth shoes, womens shoes under size 9, womens and mens jeans/pants, and all sweatshirts/sweaters/light jackets are all listed as padded flat rate envelope. It is HUNDREDS of listings.
I got a response from Ebay for Business just now. They said this happened due to the USPS dimensional shipping update that was announced in May and implemented on the 23rd.
I’ll at least check the cost over there before I ship. I walked away for a while. I’ve reached my limit on finding ebay glitches this week. I can’t handle anymore…
I am going through and opening any item I typically ship in a padded flat rate in a new tab. Then I go through the tabs to look for ones with the shipping error. I close everything that doesnt have the error and click on revise on the ones that do.
Then I go through and edit the shipping dimensions on all of them that are left. I’ve finished going through 600 listings so far.
What pisses me off is that I had 12x10x4. The actual package is 12×9.5. Basically I’m being punished for rounding up.
The hits just keep on coming. I sold an item with free shipping, but I chose Fed Ex when I put in my weight and dimensions.
I just went to print a label and the buyer is on the east coast. In the past I’ve swapped from Fed-Ex to USPS to save on shipping.
Well guess what – now USPS is grayed out!!!!! I’m being forced into using Fed Ex and can’t substitute USPS.
More like right into the groin. Yep, definitely the groin.
I’m 400 items in now on finding and fixing my flat rate items and I can feel every one of those rounds right into my metaphorical groin.
F(@#ing ebay… how I hate thee.
Okay so I actually figured some of these issues out while waiting on the guy to write his report.
The issue is tied to package dimensions.
When you create a listing, make sure your dimensions are within the dimensions that will fit in the USPS packaging or else you get the errors.
I have put in 12x10x4 for padded flat rate for years now. That will technically not fit in a padded flat rate, so the listing won’t show my sipping option to buyer and it wont show up as a shipping option on the shipping page.
It would have been nice if the listing showed an error prior to creating the listing, but noooo.
Also starting yesterday in the ebay app when I go to add pictures to a listing it goes to the beginning of my pictures. SUPER ANNOYING!!!!!
Also, the idiot CSR just hung up on me….
Ugh…yes I’ve been having issues since yesterday.
Buyers can’t see shipping method or cost on alot of my flat rate items.
I have to send invoices when they buy.Also flat rate options dissapear on the shipping screen. I changed the dimensions of items and that made some of them reappear so I could at least ship a few things this morning.
I finally built up the mental fortitude to call their sad customer service and am on hold right now. I got a real winner agent……..
She has no clue…Oh absolutely use the good stuff. I use alot of the methodologies I’ve learned at work in my ebay business – that’s how I operate at a high efficiency level with my limited time.
Oh and by the way…
Make sure to “5s” your workstations and hold a Kanban event prior to starting your inventory system.
Next time you can’t find an item, be sure to perform an RCFA so it won’t happen again.🙂
Items in Store 1207
Items Sold 44
Total Sales $1,350.50
COGS $128.50
Total Profit $1,222.00
Average profit $27.77
Average sales price $30.69
New Listings 48Summer goal
Week Goal Actual Difference
6/10/2019 875.00 411.00 -464.00
6/17/2019 875.00 577.00 -298.00
6/24/2019 875.00 1,350.50 +475.50BELOW target by -286.50
Now that’s more like it! Good to see my hard work is paying off. I had two big sales, $175 and $153 and minus those I still had a $1k week with bread n butter items. This is the most items I’ve ever sold in a week as well. I greatly outperformed my summer goal and made up some ground from my slow start. Hopefully that trend can continue.
This week I listed a bunch of higher dollar items. Hopefully they start selling.
My listing numbers would have been higher, but I had some housekeeping work to do on ebay. I had to get a bunch of listed items in inventory. On saturday I rebuilt the first wood shelf I ever built in my ebay shed. When I built the first three shelves I had NO idea how quickly my inventory would expand. I did not build the shelf long enough to fit 3 totes side by side – I also built them free-standing instead of anchoring the shelves to the wall. With a little work and expansion I can now fit 3 wide on the shelf, which gives me space to put in 12 more totes.
I still have two more of these shelves to rebuild, and I’m going to need them at the rate I am listing.Scavenging at yard sales this weekend was pretty good. One sale I went to had a TON of mens Ralph Lauren clothes. I’m not big on buying clothes right now, but when an opportunity presents itself…
The lady had signs up that said “Ralph Lauren is $5 each FIRM”. So I looked through it all and approached her and said “How much if I take ALL the Ralph Lauren?” I got her down to $3 and item and she ended up throwing in a couple for free, so less than $3 an item. All were like new.This week I’m going to use my new helper – aka my daughter – to blow through listing them all as fast as possible.
The other things of note were a Bose iphone dock radio and a Yamaha Drum Sampler machine. Both of those will pull close to $100 and will be quick sales.
Have a great week everyone!
I haven’t listened yet…but the 3 P’s??
I come here to get away from corporate speak! Lol!I kid, I kid! The 3 P’s is actually a good concept to keep projects and/or meetings flowing smoothly and on message.
It is a glitch in the classic shipping page, which you are using.
I’ve tried reporting it to ebay and they didn’t do anything about it many months ago. They actually told me I was the only person experiencing it on ebay.1. Contact ebay and describe the glitch. The more people that do, maybe they’ll fix it.
2. Don’t ship with this ‘hack’ – USPS will backcharge you.
3. Don’t use the classic shipping page if at all possible.
3. If you are forced to classic shipping page, then print your labels on paypal to get the correct price.What is happening is that the postal regions are reversed. Packages going across the country will be dirt cheap, while packages on your side of the country will be insanely expensive.
This is one of my favorite sales:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/263453703581I found this by chance after overhearing a woman say there was some fancy coats in the womens section when I was checking out one day. She was wrong, but I found this suit in that womens section looking for the coats that definitely werent fancy.
I posted this fully expecting it to be bought by a film prop/wardrobe department at some point. It sold for full price to a person in NY, so I did what I normally never do – which is look them up in google.
The buyer was a former major movie producer who now runs a high end fashion company in NYC.
Pretty cool! I took some extra time packing this item and even wrapped it in craft paper for presentation.
