To close or not to close the store

[katlover1952]

I am just wondering what everyone does when they go on holidays. I am going away for just a week and am trying to decide whether I should allow the store to stay open or close it. I know that when I closed it for a month the year of the pending postal strikes it took me months to get my sales back to where they had been pre-closing so am wondering if it is better to leave open.

I have seen items where there is a message posted at the top that the seller is away for a certain length of time and would be unable to mail any items till a certain date. Don't suppose that would keep you from getting a defect though.

Thoughts?

[katlover1952]

Basically then shipping to Canada when listing on .com could cause you trouble period as they could open a case after 7 days regardless of your handling time. I have used expedited for shipping to Canada unless I am going to ship letter mail. Perhaps I should not do this although is there really any difference if 7 days is eBay's standard for shipping to Canada when from Canada & listing on .ca? This definitely should be changed as there are always some unreasonable buyers out there who will take advantage of it.