IMPORTANT INFO ON HERE TO MAINTAIN A SELLER DISCOUNT %, READ UP SELLERS.
Highlights
Starting with the June 20 evaluation cycle, to achieve and keep your
Top-rated seller status, tracking information or a Delivery Confirmation
number must be uploaded to eBay on at least 90% of your shipments to US
buyers within your stated handling time. Start uploading your tracking by
May 1 to make sure you qualify on June 20.
Starting June 1, only those listings from Top-rated sellers that include
1-day or same day handling and a 14-day or longer return policy with a
money-back option will qualify for the greatest average boost in Best Match
and 20% final value fee discount.
You can choose not to offer 1-day handling or a 14-day or longer returns
on some or all of your listings. Based on your great track record, all your
listings will continue to receive some additional exposure and a Top-rated
seller badge. But only your listings with both of these services will
receive the maximum exposure and 20% final value fee discount.
Also starting June 1, the annual sales requirement for Top-rated status
will be lowered from $3,000 to $1,000 to expand eligibility to more sellers
who provide great service.
Special limited-time offer-extra 5% discount to help you get started
>From March 1 through May 31, Top-rated sellers get a bonus 5% final value
fee discount for listings with 1-day handling and minimum 14-day return
policy with a money-back option. Plus your usual 20% Top-rated seller
discount will still be applied on these and all your listings. So start
adding these services now!
Tools to help you succeed
Starting this week, you'll be able to track your progress toward
Top-rated seller status-including the new requirement to upload tracking on
90% of your US transactions-in your Seller Dashboard.
By the end of April, current Top-rated sellers will be able to easily
identify those listings that don't include 1-day handling and a minimum
14-day return policy with a money-back option, and then edit those listings
in bulk. This information will be available in My eBay >Selling, Selling
Manager and Selling Manager Pro.
Starting the week of May 2, sellers will begin getting access to
business policies, a new way to manage your own custom settings for
shipping, payments and returns from one central location, rather than
specifying the information separately on each listing. Using business
policies, you can create settings that qualify your listings for eBay
Top-rated seller discounts and apply these settings to your listings-or to a
specific group of existing listings-with just a few clicks.
Also starting the week of May 28, Top-rated sellers will be invited to
opt in to an easy new way to manage returns right from My eBay. Your buyer
can initiate a return and print a prepaid return shipping label with a click
of a button in My eBay. When you get the return, you can initiate a refund
and get your final value fee credited with a single click on your end. This
new process will be available to all Top-rated sellers by mid-summer.
Timeline for changes
Take Action
Start now to think about how you can adapt your business practices to
qualify for the Top-rated seller program and maximize your benefits.
Make sure you upload tracking information or Delivery Confirmation
on all your US transactions within your stated handling time. eBay will
begin counting your transactions toward the new requirement starting May 1.
One great way to meet this requirement is to use eBay Labels-USPSR Delivery
ConfirmationT is now free for First-Class Package service and automatically
uploaded to eBay.
Start now to add 1-day handling time and a minimum 14-day return
policy with money-back option to your listings whenever possible. Remember,
from March 1 through May 31, Top-rated sellers will get a bonus 5% final
value fee discount for listings with 1-day handling and minimum 14-day
return policy with money-back option. Plus the usual 20% Top-rated seller
discount will still be applied on all their listings.
If you're an existing Top-rated seller, at the end of April, start
checking your Selling Reminders on the My eBay All Selling page or the new
Listing Improvement section of the Selling Manager summary page to see which
listings don't meet the new service standards, and then easily edit those
listings in bulk.
If you currently offer 3-day or 7-day returns, be sure to update your
listings to offer at least a 14-day return policy. Also, select "Money back"
or "Money back or exchange" as your refund method before these options are
retired the first week of May.
To boost your efficiency in adding these services and managing returns,
opt in to use the new business policies and the new way to manage returns
from My eBay as soon as they're available to you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Freeman Fisher [mailto:flixs...@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:16 PM
To: Dale Dilts
Cc: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] AS OF JUNE 1st, EBAY DEMANDS THAT ALL PACKAGES SENT HAVE
TRACKING NUMBERS
Wait guys,
As of yesterday, using the feature when you click on "items sold" on EBAY
and click add tracking link that is on every sold item listed, I have been
able to enter in both kinds of customs forms numbers (for first class, the
smaller form, or the larger form for priority) on overseas sales and
seemingly that satisfies the tracking information issue.
Indeed tracking using customs form numbers only tells you when it has
arrived at the overseas destination, and when released from customs. IT
DOES NOT TELL YOU WHEN IF EVER DELIVERED TO ADDRESSEE. This may not
ultimately win a dispute because signature wasn't required on delivery but
at least its something but at least its something that seller can see that
the item has been shipped and on its way......which helps assuage his panic.
On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Dale Dilts wrote:
> This is an impact for INTL shipments. No longer will I be able to offer
11.00 shipping. HUGE impact to INTL shipping rates.
>
> From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:52 PM
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] AS OF JUNE 1st, EBAY DEMANDS THAT ALL PACKAGES
> SENT HAVE TRACKING NUMBERS
>
> Rick
>
> if you get your postage at Paypal, tracking #'s are free for priority
> mail not sure if it is for first class or not
>
> but everyone should use tracking numbers anyway
>
> Rich
>
>
> At 10:54 AM 2/28/2012, rixpost...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> I just received notification from eBay that as of June 1st, all
> packages sent out by Sellers will be required to have a tracking
number...all packages. Even some guy in Podunk U.S.A. who sends out 100
packages a day, each one containing a near-worthless trinket he's sold for
50 cents as of June 1st will beforced by the powers-that-be at eBay to spend
70 cents extra per package to the Post Office for a friggin' tracking
number.
> Let's see...that'll only cost Mr. Seller from Podunk an extra 70 bucks a
day...and the trinket he's sending out is only worth 50 cents!
> I don't know if other sellers agree with me, but I think eBay is
> truly crossing the line here. It's one thing if they raise their
> rates (which they've done many times). I can begrudgingly accept that.
But to issue me a decree that I must provide a tracking number to them for
every package I ship as of June 1st makes me think that eBay is getting to
be more and more like Big Brother every day. I'd like to hear if other
sellers on eBay agree with me or not. If you do agree, I'd suggest you give
eBay a call and let them know what you think about it. I just got off the
phone after making a call to eBay. The airhead on the other end was
obviously lock-step with eBay's latest "plan". Of course, in their email
they emphasize how many rewards they plan to give us as sellers, treating us
like a bunch of imbeciles who aren't fully aware of how transparent their
B.S. has become. Hey, you can dip a turd in chocolate and cover it with a
rainbow of sprinkles, but it's still a friggin' turd. (Sorry about such a
crude metaphor, but as you can tell, I'm not pleased with this...)
> Rick
> rixposterz
>
>
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