Leaving Store open while on Vacation - The Results

I was on vacation out of the country from Dec 19 to Jan 5/19.  Internet not available.  I put on vacation settings, did not hide my listings and  changed it to a 15 day handling period with an out of office reply that I would be mailing out on Jan 7/19.

 

I tried this because last year I went away on vacation for a week in Jan 2018, hid my listings.  Well it took months to get my sales back to the way they were.  So, I wanted to try this.  

 

The results are I sold 25 CD's during this period.  This is really good considering I didn't have any sales on and that there was a 15 day handling period.    I emailed everyone yesterday that I got home and hopefully they noticed that I was on vacation and would be sending out their CD on Monday.   I received several responses to my email that they had noticed that I was on vacation and there was no problems.  

 

So would I do it again, you bet.  If I was going away for longer than 2.5 weeks, I'd have to think about it.  

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Leaving Store open while on Vacation - The Results

Good! I’m glad. This is the way I handle things too where short vacations are concerned. The momentum lost due to hiatus is too just hard to regain, and if a buyer can see not to expect rapid dispatch, most of the time they’re just happy to place the order and cross an item from their list of things to buy even if they have to wait a little longer to receive it.
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