Royal Mail tracking numbers not updating on eBay

Anyone else experiencing this? There have been no Royal Mail tracking updates on eBay for anything dispatched on October 6th and 7th. The tracking works fine on the Royal Mail website, but on eBay it looks like it hasn't even been sent yet and still says to "Post by Mon 6 Oct".

 

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So as an update to my previous message, yesterday's tracking numbers were entered into eBay at 2PM. There were various updates from Royal Mail throughout the day, but tracking information on eBay did not fully update until 9PM.

 

Now I'll certainly take that over zero tracking information at all, but this is not exactly "near real-time" tracking information like we have been told.

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Hi,

My Parcelforce tracking has not updated for any of my items sold from 10th October onwards.

Can you provide an update please?

Thanks

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Hi Stuart,

 

Firstly, I am an ebay business seller and I do not work for ebay. I reported my problems with the Royal Mail tracking earlier this month. I then spoke to ebay who dealt with my problems (as I explained in this community thread).  ebay made several announcements (at my request) and last week they reported that they fixed the problems with linking to the Royal Mail automated tracking updates and, indeed, all seems to be working smoothly now. 

 

You are asking about Royal Mail Parcelforce which uses a different tracking service to Royal Mail's standard services. Perhaps, there is a similar problem with ebay linking to that service (I think they've had similar problems with a number of couriers). I would assume that they are aware of this and that their tech team is working on this issue but I suggest that you telephone ebay's Trust and Safety department and report the problem and they may be able to help you with your own listing(s).

 

Good luck and kind regards, David (jc53*)

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Thanks David, I'll get onto to eBay today, cheers.

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I also have a Parcel Force delivery to Ebay Global shipping currently showing no tracking info at all for the first leg - me to Ebay Global. The tracking has kicked in at GSP however. Same glitch as with RM? Again no announcement. 

As for Ebay's "Trust and Safety department", I have never heard of this and never seen that phrase in any communication with me from Ebay. Is it a new title for Customer Services? Or is it only available to a certain tier of business seller?

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Hello  Tupola, ebay have many departments and "Trust and Safety" has been one of them for many years. When you telephone them the call is usually taken by an agent in their general customer services team. One cannot speak directly to most departments and, depending upon the issue, the agent will sometimes put you through to another department  but more often will handle the matter themselves. Some departments, like their tech team will not take direct calls but the agent will pass on relevant details if appropriate and sometimes they will email or ebay message you after 48 hours or so.

 

Trust and Safety is one of the departments that you can be put through to if the agent considers it neccessary. They deal with various matters, including legal and ebay systems functionality such as these tracking link problems to couriers.  They, in turn, have various specialist sub-teams but, again, one cannot usually speak to them directly.  They handle a vast number of calls and the agents are trained to filter these and be very protective and only pass on calls at their discretion - very much in the same way that most companies' call centres operate.  I do not believe that there is any significant discrimination between business and private members or small and large ebay users.  Most agents try to be very helpful but sometimes their hands are tied.

 

Hope this helps.  Kind regards, David   

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Hi ya,

I still have parcels outstanding. I have made numerous calls to eBay & they have manually released five payments at a time. To cut along story short there is a glitch on eBay system, they are aware of it but so far failed to sort it.

 

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Thanks for that very helpful and informative post, David.

It does help a lot.

Its the kind of post that makes this community great.

Kind regards, Chris

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Hi

I have had four orders sent from October 5th. Three have been given d feedback!!

However, funds are being made available.

artdesmond

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Hi David,

 

I contacted eBay yesterday and they said they are aware of the issue with Royal Mail / Parcelforce items tracking not updating.

 

Apparently, RM/ Parcelforce are undertaking a service update and once completed, all will be well.

 

Let's hope so.

 

Thanks,

 

Stuart

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The simple seller is not working either

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