Will eBay Make Things Right Following Shipping Label Outage?

by: Ming the Merciless

Ebafia seldom makes anything "right" unless sellers grovel and beg and then usually these arrogant, sociopathic, narcissistic corporate pimps sit back laughing at the noise.

How many ebafia techs and programmers does it take to screw in a decent line of code?

by: Philip Cohen

Oh, Maynard, where are you now that eBay needs you even more than ever?

“Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.”—Maynard Webb (11 Aug 2003).

And then, along came Johnny Ho …

The eBay executive suite—where now the incompetent mingle with the disingenuous, the malevolent and the outright criminal, and the just plain stupid ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas

by: Marie

Ebay does step up when Mother Nature gets in the way.  But on this one I'm not sure it lasted long enough to cause that.

I too had issues with it today.  It sure took me longer to get my shipping done, but I managed.  Not that I liked that any as I do have other things to do with my time.

However I don't know how a seller would prove they got a defect due to this.  You could still do labels, it just took a lot longer than normal.

by: sasikat9

Does anyone really thinks that Fleecebay cares about anything that happens to sellers.

Fleecebay has burped, coddled and changed the diapers of the buyers that they don't have time to burp the sellers.

by: Rexford

Marie says " You could still do labels, it just took a lot longer than normal."

Marie, we could not print them at all, and it was down hours past our business hours. We tried printing from both eBay and PayPal throughout the day.

This is why this defect system is so ludicrous.  If eBay are going to hold sellers to ridiculous metrics, then their own systems and the third party systems that link with them should work flawlessly.

by: pace306

If eBay (SNADbay) wouldnt have created the stupid DEFECT system to start with, we wouldnt be having this discussion (each and every time).

The greater point is that eBay never learns from its mistakes.

To err is "human" even though JD is a pod person. eBay makes mistakes (has issues) but when it happens its a NON event. GOD HELP any seller who has any issues - for them is DEFECT CITY, with eBay management crackling in delight.

Delays happen. Even when there are no mistakes on either SNADbay or the sellers ends - sometimes its just USPS. But AGAIN, GOD help the poor seller, at the "mercy" of some deranged buyer who thinks that sellers control USPS (I get it all the time ... "cant you MAKE them (USPS) do XXXX?) (No I cant - no one can).

eBay will not make things "right", they never do. Its not that they are delighting in the errors, they just dont care. Why should they when they can just lay it on sellers?

by: Al G

As Doris Day said at some time

Que sera, sera.

Time to move on to the next crise de la journée.

Sorry for the mixed languages.

by: Ric

Sellers know from previously broken eBay "promises" that "making it right" will occur for a limited number of sellers in cases where the buyers negative feedback specifically mentions the shipping delay. Other than that , sellers will be hard pressed to find eBay very helpful.

For future reference in cases where eBay or PayPal shipping modules are broken, here is the link to the backup shipping process in PayPal:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now


From past experience, this shipping module works even when PayPal shipping is down.  You have to enter information manually, but at least you can still get orders shipped.

by: Puck

eBay
The gang who couldn't shoot straight...  

by: thebobman

It did work...very slowly. I think it was taking about 10 minutes to print a label. Just left the window open, did some other stuff, came back, selected the mail class, came back, clicked buy postage, came back and printed. Very annoying...I had somewhere else to be last night

by: WOODJUNGLE! ON EBAY

For me it was completely down for about 3 hours. I think Ebay's defect label is well beyond a 5 now.

by: iheartjacksparrow

"Any transaction defects or delays in uploading tracking that we can identify as resulting from this issue will not impact seller performance records," eBay wrote.

Unfortunately for small sellers, eBay will be unable to "identify" any of those defects.

To add to what Ric posted, I always use PayPal's MultiOrder Shipping program, and had no issues with that yesterday.

by: Moonwishes

I thought I had it bad that I couldn't print labels for my ecrater store as my satellite network seemed to be hung up for several hours. Even if I had been able to print the postage, too much snow to wade through with a pile of packages and cane, so today at this point I have 11 outgoing packages.

by: JohnGermaine

Hahahahahahahaha! Yah, right! Luckily I had no sales over the weekend so it didn't affect me. I was in my 4 days of being invisible. 4 days visible and 4 days invisible, it's regular as clockwork these days. I would not expect them to ''find'' any problem on their end.

by: gizmo

Ding, Ding, Ding, Another way , to screw you on ebay. Whats new , just a loose screw , Glitch , glitch , glitch, just more of the same , you the seller , are to blame. Watch your rating fall, as ebay drops the ball.

by: moonmyst

When I started selling on eBay five years ago something told me not to rely on anyone else but myself for shipping my merchandise. Man, am I glad I did that. I have been using Stamps.com since Day One and have never had to worry about shipping.

by: Rexford

John Germaine says "4 days visible and 4 days invisible, it's regular as clockwork these days."

And that is a fact.  You'd have to be a fool to not know when you are invisible on eBay.

Oh, the games that they play with small sellers.

by: ebay refugee camp

Ebay does not take responsibility, it is a battle whenever I have to call them, and I usually lose even when I am right and can prove it. This company is horrible to its sellers. They will not make it right

by: I Must be Crazy

I did manage to print my labels. A process that takes under 30 minutes dragged on for over 2 hours. I don't trust ebay to protect my status. They have a difficult time keeping the current cut and paste tracking of shipments up to date as it stands. To me it is about my customers and if there were a way to get the items out, we were going to do it, even if it meant printing through USPS.com. The last thing I want to do is beg to have each one of several defects removed. Ebay managers are so arrogant they won't even send a note to the buyers they seem to have so much respect towards. If my computer goes down for a day, I end up paying a hefty price in defects, delays and low DSR's. Ebay's entire system goes down and they just fix it and pretend nothing happened. This is what makes sellers so angry; that Ebay does not hold itself to the same standard of service that it expects of their sellers. Very arrogant. Very unprofessional.

For the record, when the dust settles, I won't be surprised if ebay hangs it on the the sellers. I can already hear them ''you could have, you should have...you need a contingency plan...I understand but that is all we can do for you today. Thanks for selling on Ebay!''

by: nothingnew

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