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Shut down the auctions thru the weekend and start again on Monday because of the holiday, or let it ride? Your thoughts?

Me, I'm thinking of letting it ride.

Not me, I am done for the year. Next time I sell will be 2012 and 12 more months until the end of the world.

Happy, 12/21/11 everyone

I have a lot of people paying me $15 - 30 EXTRA for expedited shipping past few days. One guy offered me $100 overnight shipping for an item I was selling, but I had to decline bc there was no way to ship this overnight lol.

I definitely cut back on selling until after xmas cause I do not want a seller to get a package after xmas and then leave negs.

I stopped selling yesterday.
I will start back up in Jan.

my package entered customs on Dec 12, 2011 and exited customs Dec 19, 2011 after an 8 Day customs battle I think I'll wait until January.

I'm done with my selling, made a killing....now time to buy gifts for the family. Hope everyone has a Merry X-mas and hope no one gets their accounts killed in the coming year.

I enabled vacation settings on all my listings this morning.

Been through it before selling through Christmas, some customers don't understand the concept of shipping times.

Do yourself a favor and stop selling until Christmas day. :pop2:

I have not had a problem, but the others are right. Some idiot buyer will see that you have a "1 day" processing time and assume that means that the packages are being sent overnight. When it does not arrive by Christmas day, they will nail you to the cross.

I don't put my listings on vacation., but I DO time everything that appeals to children to have ended by Monday. If you are selling toys, games, Disney movies, or anything similar, I would recommend removing them until the 25th or the 26th.

How can i do this? Only with a store i presume?

i would pack up till january, unless you really need the cash, i sold quite a few laptops just after xmas last year, but i think selling on ebay is a non stop business, and you need that extra break just to relax. good luck in whatever you decide to do:)

Same here. :)

very helpful thread . i had the same question myself.

Anyone else being bombarded with the "where is my item?" emails today?

I can't believe how many kids christmases I'm apparently on the brink of ruining this year. ;)

:laugh:

they wait until the lst minute to buy, then blame you - not themselves or the postal service.
Father Christmas was are not!

I am one of them but I get tons of "it's for my mom's Christmas present". Its the things I sell.

my fav. was a person who messaged me every 2 hours on the expected delivery day on "where is my item". He payed next day air but it came on the 2nd day. The guy lives out in some small IL town. In the end at least he gave me a positive feedback.

This is my first Christmas year selling on EB so its all new to me. Next year I am shutting down sooner then later. Who ever said the morons only come out during Christmas was right. :doh:

This is the EXACT reason I close up shop about a week BEFORE Christmas.

This for some time off? Or do you generally have issues with buyers that buy the next few days?

I'm bagged, its been a crazy few weeks. But I was curious what sales are like 24th-26th. People are flush with xmas cash. Would love to chill for a few days, but damn I'm greedy

Tons. But not from the last minute buyers. I emailed every one saying it was too late and for them to confirm they still wanted order. I have been hit with tons because customs in the US this year is crazy slow. 8-10 days on tons and tons. I have a lot of dissapointed xmas shoppers this year, and they bought early :(

this is my first time selling during christmas these people are bats^** lol one women even threatened to leave me negative feedback if she didnt have it before christmas even though she won the item on saturday and took 4 days to pay and the auction clearly said first class mail lol

this was my thought, so i think im just going to ride it out and see what happens. ill take chinese new year off!!

I stop selling on the 20th for these reasons:
A) Take some time off for the Holidays
B) So I don't have to listen to the dumbass buyers asking "Where is my package?" a hundred times a day.
C) So I do not get negs because their packages did not arrive by the 24th. (Even though they bought it on the 23rd)

Same here, I ship out all my remaining sales the week before Christmas and chill until the next year. Too much headache involved with idiot buyers who complain they didn't get their goods before Christmas when the auction ended a day before...

My complaints are relating to items purchased between 10th and 17th December.

Just had an Item Not Received case from a US buyer (I'm in UK) that purchased an item on 13th December. He seemed to be under the impression it would arrive in 3-4 days. I had to refund as I did not send it tracked. The unit cost of the item does not justify paying for a tracked delivery service. I could have dragged it out but what's the point. The buyer had the usual low feedback and broken English.

I can't wait to get bunch of red envelopes for chinese new year

Interesting discussion.

I'm probably going to regret selling the last couple weeks. Perfect account, all 5s and a year strong. Now the "where is..." are starting to roll in. Gonna end up damaging a solid account I'm sure

Problem is most of these orders are 3 weeks old, so I don't blame them for being a little chocked. Busy mail or not, that's pretty slow. Feel bad for a few of these folks. 3 weeks from Canada to the US is not reasonable for expedited...

I will try and smooth out what I can and where as it happens. Not much more I can do when it comes to eBay... I went into this season with the thought process "if it burns it burns" Wont let eBay stress me. 80% of my sales are on my website anyway

Expedited for Canada to US took 3 weeks? Fug that - how many orders? call up Canada Post and complain - see what you can get for the paid service.

About a dozen orders that are super slow. Its all customs. There is no guarantee on time with expedited, so even two months and they say "too bad". Only xpresspost has a guarantee. But its not cheap

Calling it expedited is actually dumb. Its ground. The only reason I use it is it has tracking. Under what they call "perfect conditions" its about 8 days. That means nice weather and no delays. I knew it was a risk. But xpresspost for these is $80 as apposed to $30. So screw that. I expected a couple problems. But not so many. 6-8 days in customs is not acceptable.

My last day selling was Monday. My shipping is always free, however this year I offered everyone faster shipping for $1.99. Also, Those that choose to accept the free slow shipping I upgraded to expedient shipping after they paid and told them via ebay message.

Got excellent feedback and some actually left feedback before they received product. I had the most successful holiday season ever. I produced some $2000-$3000 an hour in sales that day.

Although I did spend the next 24hrs doing nothing but packaging

let it ride can't hurt just start the bid at what you want or buy it now

I had a an idiot buyer send me a message telling me he is going to refuse the package and wants an immediate refund because his item did not show up in time for Christmas.

He bought it on Dec 22 and paid for it on Dec 23.



Are people really that stupid?

I can see this fool hitting me with a neg and low DSRs because I wont refund and told him until I get the package back.



I had a huge amount of sales on Christmas day and today has been unreal. They are calling this mega Monday and with the sales today I can believe it.

Good for you!