Are You Experiencing These Issues on eBay?

by: justchangecarriers

Nope graphs still all messed up for the last few days

The whole point of that data is to be accurate. If it isnt then there is no point to it. Ebay cant even maintain its own website from these excessive glitches. Yet they want to manage payments and process sensitive information and keep records. They cant even keep pictures on listings. Still suffering from that glitch. Hundreds of listings affected last year and all they offered was free listings which I already get with anchor store. This site is becomming more and more of a joke.

by: b86fiero

Tuesday Postage & Shipping Labels - eBay bulk shipping multiple error messages received.  Three 6 oz USPS first class orders received message " mail delivery system could not be found"  and one 4 oz USPS first class package received message "error with shipping address" when there was no error, address was correct.  

Not good when I had 17 packages to ship Tuesday.  Very frustrating.

The new bulk shipping tool overall has not been pleasant to use. Way too many glitches happening on a regular basis.  It should be drop kicked to the curb.  The old bulk shipping tool worked just fine.

If the problems continue, I will be joining the thousands of eBay sellers who buy their shipping labels elsewhere.

by: joe_saint

Issues I have had in the past 24 hours:

1.  A new mandatory Size field in clothing was added.  However, the size that was listed in the old field was not automatically populated to the new field.  I'm not entirely sure why they created a new field to begin with.  The ''fix'' for this is apparently to ignore the new field.  Regrettably it is not to populate the field correctly and will most likely become a problem down the road.  (Kick the can programming)

2.  Specific to men's suits and sport coats.  Last year these two categories were combined.  One of the mandatory fields at that time was Waist.  Well for suits that's all well and good, but for sport coats, its a bit ambiguous and can come across as misleading.  The new item specifics have both a waist field (not required) and a ''Waist circumference'' field.  I asked a support rep what they wanted in waist circumference.  He did not know but thought maybe pants waist.  I explained that a sport coat did not have pants....so he said jacket waist.  I then asked that if he were confused, doesn't he think the buyer might be as well.....

3.  When shipping an international package, Priority Mail International was not an option.  Only 1st class int, and Priority Express were options.  This was about a 20.00 difference that I had to eat.

4.  For a good while yesterday Search did not have a filter for size.  It is back today for some searches, not for others.  It appears to be getting its info from the old size field, not the new still unpopulated field.

I'm sure I am not seeing everything, but this is what I have so far.  

by: bpm

A week ago my Promoted Listings on the Dashboard showed 6.8 million listing impressions; then overnight they dropped to just over 4 million. My daily listing impressions figures all dropped substantially, and sales have slowed way down since (I am on the phone to Ebay CS in Manila right now, explaining this over and over and over). Has anyone else seen this happen to their account?

by: NoMoreEbay

Reading the anger on the boards over this while they try to remain 'board courteous' is hilarious. A few even dropped the Kool Aid and got downright pissed. And not a word from the daily cheerleading plants. This is more entertaining than a movie.

by: Mighty Mouse

For a while we were shown in ''our take'' that our active listing had decreased in the seller hub, when in fact we had added more listing.  The whole seller hub is just an illusion, eBay control every aspect of the listing, when is shown and to who.  If the seller hub keeps accurate number, it will clearly show that only a portion of your listing are visible at a given time.  I'm pretty sure that they don't want that information to be so clearly stated on the seller hub.    

by: CanBrit

I certainly experienced the issues with a mark down sale. Finally put an end to one that wouldn't launch. What I find hilarious is that on Etsy, I can run a mark down sale and it actually appears in less than a few minutes. How is it that eBay can turn everything into the most complicated piece of junk.

Anything to do with sales numbers and percentages I don't look at anymore. There is no correlation with activity whatsoever. The only thing that is constant is that I get no sales for five days. This has happened since August. Then the light comes on and a get a few in a couple of days before the lights turn off yet again. August 11 then dead until today. Three sales in a row. Absolutely nuts.

I know that some have correlated it to when payments are due, but I never owe eBay anything. I pay there fee as soon as I sell something.

by: CanBrit

Just checked. Four items I added to my new markdown sale, pending since yesterday morning. My Lord....they can't fix anything. Maybe they can borrow a programmer from Etsy?

by: thievesBay

eBay is nothing more than one problem after another which keeps getting stacked on top of each other into a giant dung pile. Nothing will ever get fixed, they just shuffle the deck which then turns into another problem. eBay's culture of incompetence is still strong because of Wenig and this won't change with a new permanent CEO. The damage is just too great for them to repair. Some have suggested eBay should be bought out by another company, but who want want to deal with this complete mess eBay has created? Nobody. Competitors would rather see eBay go away and that's the only thing eBay is good at: burying themselves.  

by: cfrphoto

New mandatory Item Specifics added to the Stamps Category are not consistent the Scott Catalog which defines the US stamp marketplace. Consistent terminology is required for effective left panel searching. Will professional stamp dealers active in multiple venues change descriptive terms to be consistent with eBay? Most do not have time for detailed eBay listing forms. Software to build listings and populate Item Specifics must have a stable list of field values consistent with listing on a seller web site or other venues. Whenever eBay makes a sudden and poorly documented change to the listing process, it will fail.

by: Lightning

@joe_saint
Try to keep at least one alternative shipping method in place.  I use Pirate Ship as my primary, but I have Paypal Shipping, EBay Labels, and Auctiva Shipping if needed.  On that $20 difference, I would think shipping that one item through Paypal would have worked, letting you use PM International instead of Express.  If it was purchased with PayPal, that is.  It would be more trouble, re-familiarizing yourself with that system, but for $20 it might be worth it.

by: BlueCheer

A further complication with the promotions / mark down glitch. None of my items require immediate payment. However, all my current mark downs now require immediate payment, pick up orders are being charged postage and I am unable to issue combined postage invoices.

by: mindelec

Only "glitch" I have noticed is that ever since we night left my sales have exploded. Oct is heading towards being the best month in years. I wonder if the temp CEO rolled back some of the things he did?

by: Jono77

I am having problems with eBay messaging. Every message I reply to does not show the message I'm replying to st breaks the message chain which is very annoying!

by: Jono77

I am having problems with eBay messaging. Every message I reply to does not show the message I'm replying to so breaks the message chain which is very annoying! So reading as a conversation is impossible in one place.

by: Philo

Sounds like they corrupted the database, time to eat crow and pull a restore.

by: Snapped

"Consistent terminology is required..."

The only things consistent with anything eBay is the needless idiocy of concept, the ineptness execution without testing, and the confusion from the results.

They are like a Three Stooges firing squad - Ready -- FIRE! -- Aim.

by: frustrated

Markdown manager is not working or slow.

My sales from the current day are not showing (at least a week now) and this morning?  Totals are completely off.  By almost $10,000.  Kind of hard to get motivated when on a great 1800.00 day they show 0.00

THANKS.

by: hawk

when you list 30 items with the so called 50 free listings deal, have absolutely NO sales , and still get an invoice swiping 2.50 or 3.00 , is a great issue also. now i'm spending time on the phone getting this fixed.  as usual it takes a few calls and and lots of time to get it done. imagine the money grab on a few hundred thousand sellers for that couple dollars. a nice pocket liner for that corrupt thief. glad i closed my 3 stores last year. what a waste ebay has become.

by: bb6

Yes. Its Thursday and still dealing with mark down manager and item specifics issues specifically in the clothing section.