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So the box is unchecked in the Bulk Editing screen AND unchecked in the single item screen? If so, I would call eBay, you may have a bug.
We have a bug on our account now where the International Shipping items are kicked out of Bulk Shipping…we have to print them separately.
And they said the Bulk Shipping bug regarding checking for the extra insurance on Priority items is STILL there. Been months now, still a known issue…
Gotta look at ShipRush and Shippo for 2018…
What are the prices like on EBTH? I wonder if they double up on eBay/Etsy…
I have heard them advertising on the radio around here. Makes me a little worried about them being a sourcing competitor if they grow more…
The only thing I could attribute it to is momentum delay, both in new listings and in sales. It seems to me that we do best when we have consistent new listings and consistent sales. If listings stall, sales seem to stall, and if sales stall, sales seem to stall more (if that makes sense).
There does seem to be a bit of a lag, a few days to a week. I use SixBit now so that I can spread out my new listings to hit every few hours so that new listings hit every day for my items.
When we went to Panama for a month last year (before we had SixBit), the first week after we left and had no new listings, sales started to slow. By the time we returned, sales were VERY slow, though we used that time to refresh old listings and send them as new, but still a drop-off. When we started listing again, sales came back.
Same with my hunting trip this year. I went about 2 weeks with no listings, and clothes started to fall off. Now that I am back to having at least 10 clothing items per day, we are getting consistent clothing sales (6-10 per day).
I also see trends in brands/types of sales. When one Brooks Brothers shirt sells, lots of times a second one will, or a Brooks sweater, or Brooks suit. This past few days, pants have started to move. One sells, then another, then another.
It is probably easier to see the curve on our store since we are at 1700 items. For you at 300, your swings will be bigger day-by-day, since each sale is a larger percentage of your total inventory.
Do you sell lots of different items, or stay in a niche (all clothing or all collectibles)?
To hide the shipping cost on the label when doing bulk shipping:
Under “Manage Orders Awaiting Shipment”, select the items to ship (select the items you are combining if that is all you are doing in this step. We do everything through Bulk Shipping). To get to where you want to be, you have to select more than one item to ship.
Select Shipping action drop down arrow, select “Print shipping labels or invoices”
On the next screen (“Print Shipping Labels”), select “US Postage Service or FedEx Shipping Label”, click Continue.
You should be at the “Bulk Shipping” screen, which is the grid of all your shipments. In the top right, there is a hyperlink that says “Label preferences”. Click that.
In the next box, uncheck the box that says “Show postage cost on label”.
Nicely Done! Hugo Boss suits can go for good money. I listed an excellent tuxedo by Hugo Boss for $250 recently.
So we are clear on our position, we still love you guys and love what you have built here. The forum you have and the podcast you created helped me make my decision to leave my job and do this full time, mostly because you guys were so open with what you do and you shared your numbers. That will always be huge to me, and I will always be thankful to you guys for what you have done for so many of us with the work you put into this podcast and forum.
We look at this as a business decision, nothing more. We would have decided to go the other way. That doesn’t make us right or wrong, just how we would have handled it. As you can see in the conversation about when title passes, when is the deal done, etc., there is a lot of gray from the time the negotiations start to when the delivery is made. It is a gray area for sure.
But from us in our house, we still love you guys very much. No worries at all.
No, we were on Accrual Accounting (and it was an accrual entry that I was making). If we had been Cash, it wouldn’t have been a sale until the buyer paid, and THEN it would automatically take place.
Our system is FOB Shipping Point. Once you print the BOL, it is a sale and inventory is decremented. We had a table that had the transit times from every plant to every customer. So we had to run the report for every sale that was BOL printed before month-end but based on the transit table would arrive after month end, and then make an accrual entry to move the sale to it’s arrival date…except for the customers that were on FOB Shipping Point.
We had to reverse them out of the reversal.
Fun times…
And why lawyers have so much work and make so much money…
And what the legal ability to do vs. the business thing to do…that can be the gray area. And many will go one way, and many will go the other.
Like you, I work on the position that once paid for, it is the buyer’s, but I have the obligation to get it to them. Do I take on more risk by doing so? Yep. Will I get burned sometimes? Yep. Is it the right way to run my business? In my mind, Yep. Others will go the other way, and that is how they run their business.
It is LEGAL to do lots of things…but not always what I think is right for MY business. So we live in the gray…
Yeah, well, what is the policy? And what is the enforcement and penalty?
It also says the following:
Policy Enforcement
When a buyer or seller issue arises, we may consider the user’s performance history and the specific circumstances in applying our policies. We may choose to be more lenient with policy enforcement in an effort to do the right thing for both buyers and sellers.Talk about allowing wiggle room…
Yep. We agree that you can do that. I would think that legally and in accordance with policy, you can do that.
But your question was…what WOULD you do. Different question…thereby the long discussion with lots of people on both sides.
Like many things in life…shades of gray…
Like we had last night…I hate that…
I wish so, but no, it is FOB Destination, so it is legally yours until you deliver. The deal isn’t really done until delivery.
I like to live in the world of the deal is done when we agree (time of purchase). Which is why when I buy something, I follow through. And why we all wish more buyers thought the same way, since it is frustrating and time consuming to cancel the sale and relist.
I grew up in a handshake world…but the world isn’t always like that.
I would defer to ThriftShift, but I would think a legal battle would end up in favor of the seller based on FOB Destination if it just stays with lawyers and judges.
If it goes to a jury though, who knows. During a lawsuit, I would think all eBay messages and emails would have to be turned over during discovery, and it would end up being who the jury sided with.
But what do I know…I’m a numbers guy. Law is made up of those icky words…
