Upgraded Vacation Hold feature available

[coxengines]

Previously, Vacation Hold kept Fixed Price listings from showing up in search results. With the updated Vacation Hold, your Fixed Price listings will be both hidden in search results and unavailable for purchase, so buyers who added your item to their watch list prior to it going on hold won’t be able to purchase it while you’re away. This keeps buyers from having a bad experience, and helps protect you from negative feedback and low detailed seller ratings.

Only took them 3 years to fix this bug 🙂

Bernie

[zarzuella]

That's no bug, it's an Upgraded Feature!

[coxengines]

LOL

The bug used to be that one could put the store on vacation mode and buyers could still purchase.

That had resulted in negs, nasty emails and lowered DSR's because sellers took weeks to ship (they were on holidays).

They finally fixed the loophole (bug).

Bernie

[femmefan1946]

I got another promise that the neg that has graced my feedback since a bidder did just that in September, will be removed "In two hours when we re-index".

We'll see.

This was after only 25 minutes on hold and 10 waiting for the clerk to to check my story out.

We'll see.

[zarzuella]

Part of the original problem was that buyers were still able to purchase items picked up by feeds to off-site locations (search engines) prior to the store being put on vacation if the buyer selected and came in to eBay via that off-site location. I hope they have closed that loophole too.

[femmefan1946]

Oh wow!

My neg has been removed at last and my DSRs are (probably temporarily) at all FIVES!

I could plotz!

[pjcdn2005]

Wow! That's great Femme!

I had to look up plotz...what a great word!

[momoftwingles2]

Oh wow!

My neg has been removed at last and my DSRs are (probably temporarily) at all FIVES!

I could plotz!

WHOO HOOO! Yeah!

So glad that eBay followed through and removed the neg for you!

Susan

[marcopoloca]

is this available only if you have store?

[pjcdn2005]

Yes, the vacation feature is valid only if you have a store.