@rainbowjam wrote:
When are ebay going to take notice of the fact the estimated delivery dates they are providing to buyers are completely ridiculous? I know they're allegedly "dynamic" and "based on a number of factors" but short of inventing a time machine to despatch items before the buyer has bought them, the earlier end of the estimate is impossible to achieve.
You are misleading my buyers and creating completely unrealistic expectations. I know this has been raised numerous times but it's going to keep being raised until you take notice and fix what is a totally broken set-up. I know that it's "working as intended" but "working as intended" clearly means it's intended to lie.
I have a one-day despatch time currently set on my listings - NOT same day. I don't have Saturday set as a working day for the simple reason that I'm not available to post on a Saturday. This is one of my items: Howlin' Wolf Smokestack Lightnin'-Best Of 2-CD NEW SEALED Blues Spoonful/Evil+ 5060143496141 | eBay . I sold it on Friday 24th Feb so I would despatch it on Monday 27th in accordance with when I say I will send it. So WHY is my buyer shown this:
They can't possibly expect to receive it on Monday 27th as that's the day I'm posting it! WHY? Ebay are driving sellers to lie about their despatch time and delivery service just to get ebay to set a realistic EDD for the despatch time and service that they really use. Is that what ebay wants - all sellers to lie to all buyers because of this ridiculous state of affairs?
Hi @rainbowjam
As you know the EDD is calculated partly on the information provided by Royal Mail, if the item is sent by first class post it give a next working day including Saturdays as a delivery estimate:
So an item dispatched on the 27th could arrive on the 28th as per the estimate.
I will as always pass your feedback to the shipping team but at the moment there are no plans to change how the EDD is calculated.
Thanks,
Dave
