@cumos55 wrote:
Business policies are available on eBay.com
They appear to be a way to set up options to prepare listings for categories of items on eBay...
One can opt-in or Opt-out. Seller's choice.
They are more for a beginner than an established seller who has already set up their own policies
You're quite right - I think most experienced sellers will already have some form of "boilerplate" terms, business policies, etc.
I've been using Auctiva for years, who have long had such "boilerplate". Theirs have worked easily and beautifully for me, extremely user friendly, but from what I've heard on these boards, even experienced sellers who are trying to set up the eBay "Business Policies" are having real difficulties with getting the various templates to work properly, and to be able to easily revise/replace templates. I expect that was also the OP's issue.
To the OP: I think sellers have to understand that this text is going to be plunked into their listings exactly as they prepare it, and that it's better to restrict the types of policies or business terms to just a few.
You have to conceptually "group" your listings before you start composing policy templates. For example, you might have a set of business terms or policies for all items under $50 that are going by, say, Light Packet or Small Packet (i.e. no insurance); you might have another one for expensive items that require special packing and will always be insured and tracked; or another policy for items on which you offer special discount terms, etc. I'd say that 5 or 6 different business policy templates is probably all anyone would need.
Again, I haven't tried opting in to this feature because I already have virtually the same thing set up through Auctiva. I had been trying to get information from the "Pinks" about whether (or how) such Auctiva users might be exempt from eBay's "Business Policies", because my understanding is that "BP" will ultimately be obligatory for all sellers.
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