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Originally Posted by tinsoldier (Post 1087618)

Whatever. Like I said, for printing out ebay pre-populated labels in the quantity lucy and I had discussed via PM, the the Zebra is a no brainer.

Why you decided to dive in there with your bull$hit and give us a lesson on OBA accounts, which I have too, only you will know.

And all this from someone who fibs about owning a zebra, how embarrassing, but again only you know why you did that. :redface:

Just to be serious for a moment is there any chance of a link to the laser you've spotted which is many times faster than the Zebra 420D? I am interested, honestly I am.

I wont hold my breathe as you wrongly claimed your hobby inkjet was - which it isn't. :pound:

(PS. no RM business account required for the free zebra labels ;) )

Originally Posted by tinsoldier (Post 1087635)

See my post above, you're full of bull$hit. The assumptions you've make are comical....and wrong.

As you're clearly clueless I will repeat it one more time, after that you're on your own.

You are NOT printing out ebay generate postage labels - that was what we were talking about until you muddied the water with your 'you dont wanna do that' bollocks.

I am NOT using my Zebra beyond its approved duty cycle - unlike you and your budget hobby inkjet.

The links are NOT for my printer, the one we were discussing.

I do have a RM OBA account, I've discussed it countless times over the years on this forum, but if you want to believe I don't then good for you. I've already confirmed you do NOT need a business account to get the free labels, yet you've surmised I'm buying them! Pathetic.

You lied about owning a Zebra 420D thermal printer and have decide to rubbish it to hide your foolishness - why I do not know.

Not suitable for beginners ... don't be so stupid, you plug it in and click 'print' - the irony is that its generally accepted that it works best without installing any drivers. Just plug it in and print - its a piece of cake to use. But of course you wouldn't know this because you lied about owning one.

What have you set out to achieve? How has all your misinformation, lies and back-peddling helped those who this wonderful little printer are aimed at?

Originally Posted by e2free (Post 1087641)

The biggest issue with his system too much time waste it does not matter what printer you using, csv file is old days job royalmail use to push alot back in days when they had dispatched manager it was complete time waste downlaod file upload it fix the errors and then print it and then upload again for tracking numbers
Click and drop works great and its a bul**** h its link your accounts
I have each click and drop setup with its own email address and linked oba with that never had issue with linkage or anything like this

If you dont wants to use then i recommend to do your own api setup which will be much more easier then what you doing now

Originally Posted by Pandoras_box (Post 1087650)

API is too expensive and will link you really fast as you would be the only one using it to pull details out of a few accounts. Except of course you make it open source - and god knows how long until other people tag along to make it safe.

The setup we have is an evolutionary work in progress. and like I said in a previous post, I'll be happy to supply you 1000s of ready to print labels all fully formatted and error-free in five minutes, if you provide me with a list of error-ladened details.
If anyone is doing any faster, I'd be happy to learn and incorporate it.

I did not know you're allowed to have multiple click and drop accounts.
Perhaps I'll ask our RM acc manager to see what her opinion is.

With your method, besides pulling sales, it does not catch errors and it does not automatically format texts easily.
How do you deal with that?

If C&D could fix that and we could also have multiple C&D accounts with RM's permission, then I'd be happy to switch all 6x4 labels there.

Still, on your method, you would have to generate one manifest per C&D account. Are you doing these for all the accounts?
If your listings have 1st, 2nd class shipping and you offer guaranteed (to keep eBay discount)
You may need three RM bags per account for that. How are you managing to do this with multiple accounts?
I'd really like to know.

Originally Posted by paulfoltyn (Post 1088567)

All these posts about printers and not a single response to the actual question "does ebay cover sellers for "tracked only"" i.e no signatures but gps tracked to the door like hermes does?

If you want to talk about printers start your own tread about them

Originally Posted by e2free (Post 1088617)

Yes ebay even cover for 2D barcode aswell,as long as item showing delivered on royalmail website from buyers delivery office they will decline the case and close the case without refund

Originally Posted by paulfoltyn (Post 1086427)

As per the title with the contactless deliveries due to cv19 no signature is being collected. Its only a matter of time before buyers "didn't" receive the items. Does paypal & ebays seller protections cover this? Selling items upto £300. If so am i better of just sending tracked rather than signed for?

thanks

Originally Posted by Pandoras_box (Post 1089398)

Sorry to have overlooked your original question.

As e2free already answered, yes, you're covered.
Let me just add from recent personal experience that since the pandemic got serious, deliveries began to take longer. Right now, ours stands at 2 - 12 days for first class to deliver so we've adjusted all listings.

As regards 2D tracking, I'll estimate that up to 20% of ours are currently not delivering even after two weeks, so we've switched everything to signed for.

Just speculation but, I think that as RM is short-staffed, more posties are not scanning these 2D tracking - either that or loads are going missing.
On the other hand, signed-for is delivering successfully for some strange reason. :noidea:

See this post:
WARNING AMAZON LINKS

And this:

Originally Posted by paulfoltyn (Post 1089562)

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to give hermes and C+ a go see how they do. As you say RM are delayed but touch wood everything has arrived if a little late for me. Lots of post office closed and as a result the others are busy/limiting parcel numbers. thanks