Estimated delivery dates

March 2024 - Seems ebay has major issues with estimated delivery dates for customers. Had an order friday evening around 5pm (after we closed) and it estimates delivery the next working day, i.e. on Monday or Tuesday for Tracked 48? We are closed over the weekend and shipped the order on Monday, tracked 48, so would expect delivery to be Thursday/Friday at the moment. Raised this with ebay tonight (5/3/24) and they are saying many sellers are saying the same thing. Only found out when we got a message about the delay. Checked our shipping policies and all are fine, with one day handling time as well. Our tracked 24, 48 and 1pm all show as the same estimated delivery dates, i.e. next working day. I even amended the policy to an ecomony 5 day and it still showed as next working day. Hope it gets fixed soon.....

 

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Hi,

I does not look like ebay will be fixing anything anytime soon as this issue was reported hundreds of times before & nothing has been done.

If you look around the boards, the variety of issues with the EDD's  have been highlighted many times in the past but ebay's response is always "working as intended", " there are no issues", "there is nothing wrong", etc.

 

Just a few of the on going long threads about the subject:

 

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Business-Seller-Board/eBay-s-false-estimated-delivery-dates-now-seve...

 

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Technical-Issues/Estimated-Delivery-dates-for-orders-over-weekend-pe...

 

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Technical-Issues/EDD-s-shows-same-day-delivery-as-dispatch-day-for-2...

 

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Business-Seller-Board/Estimated-delivery-dates-yes-again/m-p/7526938...

 

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/INCORRECT-DELIVERY-ESTIMATES-weekends-are-now-workday...

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Hi

 

I have reported this issue to ebay and even spoke several times on the Weekly community chat on Wednesday at 2pm.  All they say is the system is working, when it is very clear to see it is not.

 

Many sellers have reported this and ebay just shut us down.  

 

We have now started to receive messages from buyers asking "where is my parcel" as they are going by the EDD provided by ebay, this claims next day delivery, and or including Saturday and Sundays as delivery.

 

All our buyers select our free, three working day service for delivery.  

 

There is nothing you can do your end to avoid this issue, I had tried. Only ebay can resolve this, but they do not want to. 

 

They are nailing the sellers, its a win win for ebay, they do not care.  Sellers are now open to receiving negatitve feedback from buyers due to ebay's made up delivery dates, this in turn results in us having to ask for the feedback to be removed, and often being told it is not removable as it is the buyers experience.

 

This is unfair to sellers, when we all try our best to offer buyers the best experience, and dispatch the items on time. Ebay are sabotaging this for us, through no fault of our own.

 

I suspect they are trying to be like Amazon Prime with next delivery dates.  However, Amazon have their own warehouses and delivery drivers to achieve the next day deliveries.

 

I would encourage you to keep reporting this, and do not accept ebays reponse,  it is working.

 

I have noticed many more sellers reporting the same issue.  Hopefully, the more sellers that complain, ebay may take notice.

 

Best wishes 

 

 

 

 

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