eBay ruined my business X-( :_| X-( :_| X-( :_|

[for_baby_and_you]

July last year I sold 356 baby slings
This year I sold 7 !!!!! SEVEN!!!!!

And yes! I blame eBay for this!

With all your STUPID changes and "improvements" YOU RUINED MY BUSINESS !!!!!!

My eBay store is not for fun... me and my family depend on it...

I can't afford to continue trying to make it work...

This is the sad end of 4baby&U 😞

[pierrelebel]

tea_past_times - you wrote "First man ever to do so. I wondered why. Till I went to the meetings."

That could have been funny except you assumed (*) facts not in evidence. 😉

(*) A user ID is NOT a confirmation of the user's gender! .

[gifts_of_elegance]

lina-mellows:
I am curious- how does a seller claim you "underpaid postage by $25." ????

Not seller, buyer. He claims I did not put enough postage on item and he had to pay $25 extra on receipt:

Neutral feedback rating seller dont pay the correct postage and your left paying extra for shipping ? Buyer:
27111981 ( 159 [Feedback score is 100 to 499] )
09-Aug-08 03:02

[recped]

Your buyer probably did pay $25 "extra" on delivery, not postage of course but VAT.

[lina-mallows]

If I am to understand correctly- in general, a sender of a MAILED item from Canada, CANNOT prepay the Duty or Taxes that may be assessed upon arrival in a foreign country.

And, even if they could- they wouldn't be in postage stamp, would they?

Do other foreign Post offices, under the Universal Postal Union have the right to collect for POSTAGE DUE another country, upon arrival/delivery in that country?
I thought Postage Due that was only permitted within the country from which the item was sent, and delivered?

If a package were so mailed, WITHOUT SUFFICIENT postage- should it not have been returned to the sender by Canada Post for the additional postage, before being dispatched for Canada?

[lina-mallows]

I found this at Canada Post

"Other Products and Services
- Deficient Postage Fee

Unpaid or shortpaid mail is mail for which the postage or fees have not been paid or have been partially paid. Lettermail and Parcelmail is returned to the sender for the collection of the postage.

When there is no return address on the item, the item is forwarded to the addressee for the collection of the postage plus an administrative charge.

All postage due charges must be paid before delivery."

It doesn't address the issue of the country of posting and delivery.

[faerywishes]

Hi Kasha
I'm sorry your business isn't doing as well as last year. When I took a look at your listings though, I didn't see the words "Baby Sling" in the title. Wouldn't it help in the search to have those words in the title listing?

I put baby sling in the search and found I believe over 500 listings. On the best match page there was a seller on the first page that had basically the same feed back score as you.

I know there is a page in here that will provide you with the best words to be using in your title listing to improve search results.

I don't know much about these slings, but it only makes sense that if that is what they are more commonly called then you need to put them in the title listing.

Good Luck!
Colleen

[ampurtle]

The shipper can in many cases specify that they are to be billed for customs and clearance, but I've never done it other for an item going to the USA. Unless you are a big bonded shipper with US accounts, you have to wait for US Customs to send the bill to Canada Post who then sends it to you, and then you pay CanadaPost who pays US Customs who releases the package to USPS for delivery.

Prior to 9/11, that would all take about 10 days, but now, US Customs will have every parcel lined up for inspection so don't expect the package to be on a USPS truck for at least 30 days, and that's the most optomistic scenario, as 6-8 weeks is closer to reality.

If you ship with a parcel service like UPS Fedex et, if you have an account in good standing, they will pay and bill you. Of course They get around $40.oo for clearing it where as Canada Post charges $8.00

It's a good way to do it so the customer is insulated from all the escoteric nonsense, but it's really only viable for a large distributor or manufacturer, at which point you are probably doing your own truckloads and use a commercial broker. For the same package that UPS charges $40, a commercial customs firm will charge me $18.oo, but that rate was prearranged and shows on my account.

eBay sellers are better off not pre arranging customs because that means the parcel must go through customs where as letting the buyer deal with it means it may or may not be subject to clearance.

The US does not have taxes, the monies a buyer might pay are related to clearing the shipment unless you are selling one of the rare items that still has a duty applied to it, which is mostly agricultural prodcts.