My son-in-law died on Monday. When he was admitted to hospital last Thursday evening, the same day DH had outpatient surgery, I had over 900 listings with over 200 of them as auctions. We brought my 2 grandsons home with us that evening and they stayed with us so my daughter could stay at the hospital with her husband. We took them home this afternoon.
I immediately put my store on vacation because I did not want to deal with eBay sales during this critical time. I did not have time to end some auctions until 3 or 4 days had gone by and therefore had orders to ship out. My son-in-law was a computer expert. I would not own a computer if it were not for him. He built it and taught me the basics in knowing how to use it. The oldest boy, age 9, has had his own computer since he was 4 years old. Playing games on my computer was his coping mechanism this week and I gave him priority over eBay. The youngest is 5 years old. It has been a few years since I had children at home. With my husband also laid up after surgery it was a physically and emotionally exhausting week.
I finally had a chance to end a few auctions but there needs to a faster way to shut things down during an emergency. Add to that the combined shipping glitches which necessitated numerous refunds and it was ridiculous.
My store is now back online but now my focus is not to make extra money for retirement but to help support my grandsons.
eBay needs to fix the glitches and let us bulk end auctions.
My son-in-law would have been 37 on Dec. 22.
Judy
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