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ricarmic · ‎06-06-2016

(Can you tell I'm procrastinating today?)

I've been running multi level sales for a few months now.

It is quite a painful process as I have 5 different groups of stuff on sale, more aged = more discounted.

In an effort not to offend my followers, I always click off the email notifications (otherwise they'd get 5 emails each time).

The stupid process likes to reclick it when I get back from picking the items.

Missed one of them this time so followers got one of the emails for one of the sales.

Booom almost immediately an over $400 sale of one of the items high up in the email!

Hmmmm looks like I'm going to pick one of the 5 to intentionally distribute going forward.

So sometimes mistakes can do good things too!

pjcdn2005 · ‎06-06-2016

It sounds like it's a good idea to allow an email to get sent off for at least one of the promo's each time!

Or.....when you set it up to send an email for one promotion, can you edit it to add another promo or 2 to the same email?

(I obviously don't send out a lot of emails although perhaps I should)

rosscd57 · ‎06-06-2016

I did not know that followers get emails from sellers. Is there a way to turn them off and on?

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ricarmic · ‎06-06-2016

Hi PJC!

Well this is indeed a learning day, I just went to send an email to the followers to advise them of when I may close my store, and the followers list is hidden (ie the box is faint so I can't click on it). It says that I've just emailed them and I'm only allowed to send one email per week.

So presumably, assuming no glitches, after my first sale, if I had forgotten to unclick the notification, it wouldn't have sent any others anyway, or it would have come back with an error.

The email aspect is one of the clicks in the create a sale process. As far as I know I can't combine 2 sales into one larger one the way I'm doing it.

In fact, I can't even reuse the older sales, after they finish, they never start properly when I try to redo them....

pjcdn2005 · ‎06-06-2016

If you have a store and you do a sales markdown from the store, an email goes out to the people who have signed up for notifications from you. You can uncheck that box each time if you don't want an email to go out. I don't know if that is what ric is referring to though.

pjcdn2005 · ‎06-06-2016

You're thinking of closing your store?

ricarmic · ‎06-06-2016

@pjcdn2005 wrote:
If you have a store and you do a sales markdown from the store, an email goes out to the people who have signed up for notifications from you. You can uncheck that box each time if you don't want an email to go out. I don't know if that is what ric is referring to though.

Yep that is what I'm referring to!!

ricarmic · ‎06-06-2016

@pjcdn2005 wrote:
You're thinking of closing your store?

I don't know for sure.

My plan was to use the email notification to let the followers know I may be doing it depending on how things unfold. In the worst case I don't, and it may provoke some "thinkers" into "buyers" which I, like all of us can use more of!

Last time, as I recall, I did not close, and ebay did stand behind us.

This time is a bit different though, I'm one of those legacy users who lists all his stuff on .COM and by theory people like me who chose to do what I'm doing (not listing on my home country's site) may not get any/as much support. In theory I agree with that. It is my decision to list on .COM and if my country's PO chooses to go on strike, an American, buying my item on .COM should be able to expect the similar service as if he bought from the US. If an American bought from the .CA site then I could see it being much more reasonable to expect them to understand the Canadian PO issue.

The even bigger impact is that it will affect my holiday/fishing season! My plan was to shut down in August, which is usually a slower month for me anyway and get some fishing and family time in. My wife takes much of the month off as well, and the children tend to be around more. If I lose much of July, I'll probably have to be open part or all of August to soften the cash flow impact. That part sucks and would be the main reason I'd resist closing.

Time will tell.

pjcdn2005 · ‎06-06-2016

Oh...you're referring to closing because of the strike....I wasn't thinking about that for some reason...duh.

I don't really know what ebay can do to support anyone during the strike regardless of where you list other than not giving sellers late shipment defects.

ricarmic · ‎06-06-2016

I expect they will have the notifications up that packages from/to Canada will be impacted like they did last time.

I would expect them to "reconsider" late defects for folks selling from .CA site.

I am less expectant of them to "reconsider" late defects for Canadians selling on .COM site for the reasons I mentioned earlier.

Given I possess an unusable $75 supplies coupon as a legacy user selling on .COM I am not expecting much help for the strike for "my kind".... time will tell!